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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
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I know people love to dunk on Seagate drives, but it was really just the one gen that was the cause of that bad rep. Before that the most hated drives were the "deathstars" (Deskstars). I have a 1TB Seagate drive that is 10 years old and still in use daily. Just do some research on which drive to buy, no OEM is sacrosanct. I'd personally wait 6 months to a year before buying one of these drives though, so enough people have time to find out if this generation is trouble or not.
i dunno man, i have about 20 years worth of bad experiences with seagate. none of their drives have ever been reliable for me. WD drives have always been rock solid and overall just better drives in my experience. I have two WD externals sitting on my desk right now that are almost 15 years old. Still going strong.
I have killed every single type of magnetic platter drive from every brand they are all bad
So have I -- but most were killed using power tools. WDs have always served me well though. Any WD that died, its death was by mine own hand. The seagates just all decided to off themselves. Every single one them.