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
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I installed cctv DVRs and NVRs for 15 years featuring hard drives from multiple manufacturers.
Out of hundreds, a single WD drive has failed (a 4tb WD red that spun for 7 years before failure) and nearly every of multiple dozens of Seagate drives failed. The NVRs/DVRs that I used these Seagate 3tb drives in all failed within 12 months of deployment and cost our company tens of thousands of dollars in service calls to replace them, all at our own cost due to being in the warranty period.
Never again. WD for life.
iirc I bought 6 of them and all 6 failed in the first 3 years lol
Yeah, I lost 2 of the damn things. They were free, but damn.
I’ve lost about 15 of these due to drive failures over the last 8 or so years… Mostly just started the death click click, click click. These models of 3tb were reported as crap.
Got loads of 2TB models and they’ve been solid for ever. If I recall there were issues with this and maybe also the 5TB
I have a 2tb model that runs fine just on a specific setup. If I change the power outlet the drive is connected it fails. Crazy af
same here.
Garbage
The reason I’ll never buy Seagate drives again…
Well to be fair that drive is over 10 years old based on the date code
It died about a year after I bought it. It’s been a paperweight ever since
Jeejus key riced as an absolute noob few years back was so happy to be able to shuch these and then tragedy struck.
They had similar 4tb drives.
I lost 2 of them. Both died. Plink plink plink dead.
It was lightly used
Avoid Seagate at all costs!
Stay away from Seagate, trust me.
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.
Seagate drives are unreliable, avoid them!
Barracudas, the B is for bin.
I’ve had 3 or 4 fail
I’ve owned at least 4 of these and dozens of other makes and sizes. Every one of the Seagates died completely and suddenly. All my other retired drives (< 5) were due to increasing smart errors and never actually ceased working
Seagate got a reputation for that series of high failure rates after a batch of drives were made using parts salvaged from a flood in China. In the grant scheme of total drives made, it was less than 5% that failed. Unfortunately for Seagate, the drives all failed within a few months of each other, giving the impression that the drives were extremely unreliable.
