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It will take about 36 hours to fill this drive at 270mb/s
Thatβs a long time to backup your giraffe porn collection.
What kind of degenerate do you think I am? Thatβs 36 hours to back up my walrus porn collection.
How did you know about my giraffe porn?
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That's a lot of porn.
And linux distros
Just say it's full of porn, it's easier to explain
Always keep an nsfw tab open to swap to so your family doesnt see you on the arch linux wiki.
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I wanna fuck this HDD. To have that much storage on one drive when I currently have ~30TB shared between 20 drives makes me very erect.
Average Lemmy user
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Defragmenting...
Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.
Now I know better.
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Seagate so how long before it fails?
In my experience, not all Seagates will fail but most HDD's that fail will be Seagates.
About 3 hours.
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Do you need it? Probably not. Do you want it? Oh, yeah.
I feel seen
no thanks Seagate. the trauma of losing my data because of a botched firmware with a ticking time bomb kinda put me off your products for life.
see you in hell.
I can certainly understand holding grudges against corporations. I didnβt buy anything from Sony for a very long time after their fuckery with George Hotz and Nintendo's latest horseshit has me staying away from them, but that was a single firmware bug that locked down hard drives (note, the data was still intact) a very long time ago. Seagate even issued a firmware update to prevent the bug from biting users it hadnβt hit yet, but firmware updates at the time werenβt really something people thought to ever do, and operating systems did not check for them automatically back then like they do now.
Seagate fucked up but they also did everything they could to make it right. That matters. Plus, look at their competition. WD famously lied about their red drives not being SMR when they actually were. And Iβve only ever had WD hard drives and sandisk flash drives die on me. And guess who owns sandisk? Western Digital!
I guess if you must go with a another company, thereβs the louder and more expensive Toshiba drives but I have never used those before so I know nothing about them aside from their reputation for being loud.
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I'm amazed it's only $800. I figured that shit was gonna be like 8-10 thousand.
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Yeah, but it's Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I'd say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.
Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/
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What models of Seagate drives?
I've been running x4 Seagate ST8000NC0002s 24/7 for almost 5 years, plus 2 more I added about 6 months ago and they've never given me any trouble.
To be fair, the only HDDs I've ever had that failed were two I dropped because I wasn't being careful enough.
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Imagine having that...then dropping it...
Summon Linus
Sorry but without a banana for scale it's hard to tell how big it really is
This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.
This hard drive is so big when it moves, the Richter scale picks it up.
Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate:
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Pretty sure I had a bigger hard drive than that for my Amiga. You could have broken a toe if youβd dropped it.
Makes me shudder. I have to replace a drive in my array, because it is degraded. It's a 4TB. Imagine having to replace one of these. I'd much rather have a bunch of cheaper drives, even if they are a bit more expensive per TB, because the replacement cost will eventually make the total cost of ownership lower.
Also, repeat with me: "Please give me a Toshiba or Hitachi, please"
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