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Did this article really need ai pic of an HDD when actual pics exist & are freely available?
Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.
This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.
In Germany there is a saying that goes like
Seagate, oder Seagate nicht
where “Seagate” sounds like “sie geht” (“she works”; the word “hard drive disk” is femininum in German).
So it translates to “She works, or she does not work.” or “Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not work”
Louis Rossmann says his business works on Seagate more than any other brand.
Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.
Likely they are anyway already all “bought” with non-existing money by the usual suspect…
The last time I had a Seagate drive, it was 1.2GB
Right, I’m never going back to Seagate. Their drives are shit. Although I do have 2 IronWolf 10TBs setup in raid and they have been going nearly 8 years nonstop now.
I don’t understand the hate against Seagate. I’ve only had Seagate in my PCs and none have failed for me in the span of almost two decades. In fact, the first ones I had are still around not having failed yet.
Seagate drives are like crows - if you don’t get along with one, they tell their friends and harass you. For any given user, either Seagate drives are perfectly fine and last ages no matter what is done to them, or every single one they touch will self destruct with the lightest use for no reason. That it really does seem to vary by user rather than specific models or production runs is the baffling part.
I really like my IronWolves. They never gave me issues so far.
They can suck my dick and balls. None of this benefits the average consumer.
This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.
I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.
It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.
My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.
I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.
It’s not their fault the average consumer doesn’t have a sizeable media library
Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.
The consumer market will care. They’ll just be priced so far out of the market, it’ll be unrealistic of them to ever hope to buy one.
