So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?

Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?

This one is currently a paperweight

  • iamsoldats@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I installed cctv DVRs and NVRs for 15 years featuring hard drives from multiple manufacturers.

    Out of hundreds, a single WD drive has failed (a 4tb WD red that spun for 7 years before failure) and nearly every of multiple dozens of Seagate drives failed. The NVRs/DVRs that I used these Seagate 3tb drives in all failed within 12 months of deployment and cost our company tens of thousands of dollars in service calls to replace them, all at our own cost due to being in the warranty period.

    Never again. WD for life.

  • Bleu_boye@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Jeejus key riced as an absolute noob few years back was so happy to be able to shuch these and then tragedy struck.

    They had similar 4tb drives.

    I lost 2 of them. Both died. Plink plink plink dead.

    It was lightly used

    • Ezzy-525@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had a lot of other Barracuda drives (the ones with the green stickers) and they’ve been fine. 2/4/8TB. It seems to be this one particular 3TB drive that people have had issues with.

  • No_Bit_1456@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve still got 8 of these running. They were pulls from external hard drives, still running strong after 6 years.

  • ModularLabrador@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Got loads of 2TB models and they’ve been solid for ever. If I recall there were issues with this and maybe also the 5TB

  • bobisnotmyuncIe@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I got one of these for very cheap and put a bunch of data on it, thinking I’d lucked out. Then I learned about the lawsuit, thought “oh fuck” and immediately ordered a different one to replace it.

    I decided since I already loaded data on it, I’d keep it around as a redundant backup. What else am I going to do with it?

  • ralioc@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve lost about 15 of these due to drive failures over the last 8 or so years… Mostly just started the death click click, click click. These models of 3tb were reported as crap.

    • Ezzy-525@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It died about a year after I bought it. It’s been a paperweight ever since