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I snagged another t7 2tb in grey, can always use another samples drive!
Let me put it this way. I've had a number of external Seagate branded rotating disk hard drives. Every single one of them turned out to be a POS. I wouldn't have one at any cost, because I value my data.
A friend in the hard drive recovery business told me that he sees more Seagate drives than any other brand, by far.
I have three and they are terrific. Unfortunately they get pretty expensive pretty fast if you need something larger.I got the Samsung t7 2tb drive last sale, it's a nice drive for the $$
This is my take on different hard drive brands. Over the last 30+ years of running a computer (since like, the IBM 086 with a 20meg drive...) every few years, a certain brand gets the rep of having more failures than the others. I have quite a few tech pals in various places where I get a general consensus, and I remember when quantum were failing enmasse, WD drives were the plague, and oh those Hitachi drives that all committed whatever. I think it isn't so much one brand, some techs have their biases and experiences. But, there is often a certain time period or range of models, that do have a high failure rate, and often that becomes known in a general consensus from shops country (world?) wide. I also work with a huge community of media/creatives that use very extensive hard drive systems with huge arrays and I hear often which drives blew up the most because boy the shouting when it happens is loud I have an expensive raid system with seagate that are approaching 8 years old, they run great. Though it's probably time to replace them and update them in the raid enclosures, and the landscape will be likely different now, so I'll decide based on that who to go with.That's interesting. I have eight 4-5Tb Seagate Portable and Backup Plus drives and none has ever given me any trouble. I keep waiting for one to fail but they haven't. Maybe I've just been lucky.
Yea, they sure do. I use ssd mainly in situations when I need that kind of speed, like audio samples etc.I have three and they are terrific. Unfortunately they get pretty expensive pretty fast if you need something larger.
... I have an expensive raid system with seagate that are approaching 8 years old, they run great.