We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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
I got 7 years out of my old zpool using them. The second I got a failure I got a load of new drives. I still have 3 drives out of that array I use in a raidz2 tripple that I keep as a cold backup. They are not showing a single issue, 9 years later at this point. I did have two failures though. The original array was 5 drives, and I purchased them in a couple staggered sets. The two that failed were the same later released sub-model that was different from the others, and purchased together, so probably the same bach.