I keep seeing this stuff over the years, so I go buy something other than Seagate like WD... and they fail within a year. So I replace it with a Seagate and no problems for years. See another report that says Seagate is terrible- repeat process.
I'm just going to keep using Seagate until my anecdata refutes the reality I live in.
Yev from Backblaze here -> all of the drives in our datacenter will fail. We just report on the timing of those failures. We still buy Seagates in droves because they are a great value. As long as you have backups of the data, any drive is great!
I'm just going to keep using Seagate until my anecdata refutes the reality I live in.