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
Whew... I have 6 of the ST3000DM008-2DM166 in a RAID array. And to be honest, they were only so-so, so I'm not actually relieved that mine are newer/different. I had a couple of failures over the years. I started with 5.
1 out of 5 is still in mainline operation, one is my hot spare.
3 out of 5 failed and got sent back to Seagate for a refurb
1 of my replacement drives had an "unexpected sense" that I guess corrected itself after a rebuild.
4.1 years of operation
I'm definitely not thrilled.