• dragonlobster@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.

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      10 hours ago

      Seagate in general are unreliable in my own anecdotal experience. Every Seagate I’ve owned has died in less than five years. I couldn’t give you an estimate on the average failure age of my WD drives because it never happened before they were retired due to obsolescence. It was over a decade regularly though.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      well until you need capacity why not use an SSD. It’s basically mandatory for the operating system drive too