As an aside, I’m massively disappointed I missed the Backblaze Storage Pod giveaway. I’ve got an 8 bay Drobo at home that I’m probably just under a year from filling up, and getting one of those...
As an aside, I’m massively disappointed I missed the Backblaze Storage Pod giveaway. I’ve got an 8 bay Drobo at home that I’m probably just under a year from filling up, and getting one of those Storage Pods that can hold 45 drives seems like a dream. It’s disappointing that I’ve discovered (from later googling) it looks like some people picked up the free storage pods just to flip them for a few hundred.
It’s Backblaze that made me militant about only picking up HGST and not Seagate drive based on their failure rates. And, not one of my 8 HGST drives has died yet (obviously not statistically significant). Toshiba’s low failure rates also seem quite interesting too.
Backblaze's reports are what got me on the HGST train too. And similarly just a sample size of 1, but my HGST Deskstar 4TB is still going strong almost 5 years later despite near constant use as...
Backblaze's reports are what got me on the HGST train too. And similarly just a sample size of 1, but my HGST Deskstar 4TB is still going strong almost 5 years later despite near constant use as my primary storage and media server drive, while two of my Seagate drives (3TB Desktop & 1.5TB BarraCuda Green) died after <3 years of use under much less load. :/
My primary 1tb Hitachi saw nearly 10 years of use as my primary drive before being retired in favour of an SSD. That drive is still alive today, just idling now. Hitachi, thus HGST, is crazy good...
My primary 1tb Hitachi saw nearly 10 years of use as my primary drive before being retired in favour of an SSD. That drive is still alive today, just idling now. Hitachi, thus HGST, is crazy good quality.
I almost made the drive to Sacramento to grab one, but I didn't end up being able to make it. Had some storage wants recently that really make me wish I had been able to. And, yeah, it's really...
I almost made the drive to Sacramento to grab one, but I didn't end up being able to make it. Had some storage wants recently that really make me wish I had been able to.
And, yeah, it's really too bad that people got them and flipped them. Definitely seems against the spirit of what it felt like Backblaze was going for.
As an aside, I’m massively disappointed I missed the Backblaze Storage Pod giveaway. I’ve got an 8 bay Drobo at home that I’m probably just under a year from filling up, and getting one of those Storage Pods that can hold 45 drives seems like a dream. It’s disappointing that I’ve discovered (from later googling) it looks like some people picked up the free storage pods just to flip them for a few hundred.
It’s Backblaze that made me militant about only picking up HGST and not Seagate drive based on their failure rates. And, not one of my 8 HGST drives has died yet (obviously not statistically significant). Toshiba’s low failure rates also seem quite interesting too.
Backblaze's reports are what got me on the HGST train too. And similarly just a sample size of 1, but my HGST Deskstar 4TB is still going strong almost 5 years later despite near constant use as my primary storage and media server drive, while two of my Seagate drives (3TB Desktop & 1.5TB BarraCuda Green) died after <3 years of use under much less load. :/
My primary 1tb Hitachi saw nearly 10 years of use as my primary drive before being retired in favour of an SSD. That drive is still alive today, just idling now. Hitachi, thus HGST, is crazy good quality.
I almost made the drive to Sacramento to grab one, but I didn't end up being able to make it. Had some storage wants recently that really make me wish I had been able to.
And, yeah, it's really too bad that people got them and flipped them. Definitely seems against the spirit of what it felt like Backblaze was going for.