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minus-squareSyrc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago…so what’s the best HDD company to buy from now? Crucial?
minus-squareSurjj@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoShow 0 brand loyalty, buy what’s proven to be stable (for your use case) There are a few very large hosting providers that publish their drive failure rates publicly for the benefit of the community. I use such reports when I go to purchase disks and I’ve never had a problem since. BackBlaze offers them but I’m sure many others are out there as well.
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoI got two crucial SSDs recently. The first one was DOA and was so broken that the two motherboards I tested refused to power on with it installed. The second one was a replacement for the first and exhibited the exact same behavior. I did not get a third. Maybe their HDDs are better, but I’m not planning on finding out.
…so what’s the best HDD company to buy from now? Crucial?
Show 0 brand loyalty, buy what’s proven to be stable (for your use case)
There are a few very large hosting providers that publish their drive failure rates publicly for the benefit of the community.
I use such reports when I go to purchase disks and I’ve never had a problem since.
BackBlaze offers them but I’m sure many others are out there as well.
I got two crucial SSDs recently.
The first one was DOA and was so broken that the two motherboards I tested refused to power on with it installed.
The second one was a replacement for the first and exhibited the exact same behavior.
I did not get a third. Maybe their HDDs are better, but I’m not planning on finding out.
Seagate