Wow! Those dismal Seagate Barracuda failure rates seem so horrendous, makes me wonder if true! Clearly, if you have a Barracuda, backup it now, and frequently thereafter.
Seem to remember a thread somewhere here recently about this. Read that article but not this one. I have 4 internal Seagate Barracudas and 1 external. All have had a thrashing for years on end. Two have been used in a high stress environment and I was told expect them to last typically 2 or three years. Other than the external they're all over 12 years old. All are just fine. One has recently survived a blown PSU which took out Mobo. Its happily slaved at present on the computer posting this.
teh largest capacity I have is 2TB, lol I own only one HGST 2TB which lasted for more than 5 years now as my main storage drive. All the rest are WD blue/Green and all are well. The only one dead was a Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB which only lasted for less than a year of non-continuous use.
I'll close this thread. See original thread. https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/what-is-the-best-hard-drive.372595/
