I've got a 16TB Iron Wolf Pro (which was listed as an Exos on Amazon but that's another issue). And apart from the noise, which is to be expected as higher capacity is intended for servers so can't blame them too much for that, and so far it's doing ok. This 3TB White Label Barracuda is the only drive I've had die in 20 years. I still think I've got some old IDE Maxxtor drives which still work.
To be fair to them. I've had a lot of Seagate drives and they're all still kicking (touch wood). It's just this 3TB version a lot of people seem to have had an issue with.
Mine died about a year into use after shucking from an external enclosure.
More than the year it did. It's been used as a paperweight for close to a decade.
I've had a lot of other Barracuda drives (the ones with the green stickers) and they've been fine. 2/4/8TB. It seems to be this one particular 3TB drive that people have had issues with.
It died about a year after I bought it. It's been a paperweight ever since
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 transferred some data from one PC (Nvme SSD) to another PC over the internet last night which was a 4TB Barracuda drive and managed to get sustained speeds of 100mbit/s. Made short work of I think about 50GB of data.
Would've killed for those speeds in the Limewire days ๐