I’ve got WD drives with like 10+ years of power on time…still works. All, and I’m not joking, of my HDD failures have been seagates. I lost 4 drives and the 5th and final seagate I purchased, started showing errors just a year into its life. Haven’t bought one since.
I think the IronWolf drives are generally OK. But what’s inside this is probably going to be a cheapo Barracuda drive.
You generally get what you pay for. If a drive is an amazing bargain, I wouldn’t trust it with anything I needed. If you’re just using it as another replaceable drive in a RAID array then whatever, I guess.
When I bought Seagate externals, the Barracuda line only went up to 8TB so anything above that was an Ironwolf or Exynos. Do you know if that’s still the case?
I’ve got WD drives with like 10+ years of power on time…still works. All, and I’m not joking, of my HDD failures have been seagates. I lost 4 drives and the 5th and final seagate I purchased, started showing errors just a year into its life. Haven’t bought one since.
I think the IronWolf drives are generally OK. But what’s inside this is probably going to be a cheapo Barracuda drive.
You generally get what you pay for. If a drive is an amazing bargain, I wouldn’t trust it with anything I needed. If you’re just using it as another replaceable drive in a RAID array then whatever, I guess.
When I bought Seagate externals, the Barracuda line only went up to 8TB so anything above that was an Ironwolf or Exynos. Do you know if that’s still the case?
Labelled as Barracudas, but who knows what they were before they were relegated to this…
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1jfcgt6/26tb_seagate_from_bb_is_a_barracuda/