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I just got an external Seagate Expansion 16 TB hard drive to use as backup for important things that are too large to burn to BD-Rs. I don't trust hard drives very much, but I spent too much money already on 4 TB SSDs. I just hope that the Seagate recovery whatever program is legit, since it was my main reason behind the purchase.
Now, I tend to trust Seagate drives because in both internal and external versions, they have been the most reliable for me. Not every one of them survived, but I had Western Digital drives die on me in less than a year, and Seagate drives have lasted much longer, many of them several years.
But all the external Seagate drives I have make a more or less typical hard drive noise when writing or reading lots of small files. You can hear them if the room is quiet, but they're not loud. That's why I'm a bit concerned about this Seagate Expansion drive. The noise it makes it's about three times as loud as the other drives. I also don't like too much that it seems to be designed to be placed vertically, since the rubber feet are only on one of the short sides. But perhaps it is meant to be that way. I also don't know if the noise is standard for this model, since I only had the regular Seagate Backup Plus series.
So if you have this drive, do you think it's noisy for a hard drive? And generally speaking, is it good for a hard drive to be positioned vertically?
Now, I tend to trust Seagate drives because in both internal and external versions, they have been the most reliable for me. Not every one of them survived, but I had Western Digital drives die on me in less than a year, and Seagate drives have lasted much longer, many of them several years.
But all the external Seagate drives I have make a more or less typical hard drive noise when writing or reading lots of small files. You can hear them if the room is quiet, but they're not loud. That's why I'm a bit concerned about this Seagate Expansion drive. The noise it makes it's about three times as loud as the other drives. I also don't like too much that it seems to be designed to be placed vertically, since the rubber feet are only on one of the short sides. But perhaps it is meant to be that way. I also don't know if the noise is standard for this model, since I only had the regular Seagate Backup Plus series.
So if you have this drive, do you think it's noisy for a hard drive? And generally speaking, is it good for a hard drive to be positioned vertically?
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