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What proof do you have that Seagate drives are guaranteed to fail? Technically every drive is, but that's a different matter.
Don't point to Newegg reviews, please. Nobody bothers to comment about a working hard drive. Once one fails, everyone's clamoring to report it. It's just the high volume of Seagate drives.
I have two HDDs from Seagate working perfectly well, and it's been years. I am also happy about the performance.
For any other goober wanting to look at HDD failure rates... Look no further
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/
Seagate leads the pack by large margins at all capacities compared to their competitors for failure rates. That's q2 2015 and backblaze is very well known for using consumer drives in their storage centers.[/quotemsg]
I don't own any Seagate HDDs and I have had one WD fail on me. Yet I only own WD, simply cuz they were priced better. WIth that said, there is an article that sheds some light on the backblaze article. It looks at holes in what backblaze did.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html[/quotemsg]
"The majority of Backblaze's failures occur in the first few weeks of service, which is understandable considering their drive purchasing methods. The typical 'bathtub curve' of failures is expected with many storage devices, with the highest chance of failure in the beginning and ending stages of the product's life. However, it is feasible to conclude that their drive sourcing methods tainted their results. "
They bought the drives, put them in enclosures and worked the piss out of them. I don't see how this is faulty testing. Also that article is blatant clickbait. "The Real Story Covered", photostock type graphs with all sorts of "data" but no explanation of what the actual data is. ( This bell curve represents seagate, this one, WD, this one HGST, this one Toshiba. Nope, not included) if they did it would have confirmed BB's findings. Tweaktown was fishing for clicks, nothing more.
Especially considering the majority of seagate reviews on many many storefronts (Amazon, Newegg, Tigerdirect, Directron, ect...) have a seemingly higher rate of "Just bought it, it never worked." That's crappy QA pure and simple So why roll the dice on a Seagate drive when a HGST is the same price if not cheaper? Or throw down a few more bones and grab a WD which you yourself said know their failure rates? I've known 2 WD drives to tail, both WD greens, both of them used as backup disks. Never had an issue with Black or Blue.