• SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
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    1 year ago

    I long while back (~15 years) there was a bit of a fiasco with Seagate drives. It had to do with firmware bricking some drives if I’m not mistaken. I was affect by this and didn’t have redundancy back then. I swore Seagate off from then on.

    Recently WD had the SMR situation where they had to come clean about it and now this.

    I feel like no mater who you go with, they try to screw you either way. That or maybe just go with Toshiba. Haven’t tried those yet. I’m not running a Synology anymore so that messaging won’t affect me, but it’s still annoying to know that it’s part of their business practices.

    • Not Merritt Stone@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Ah yes, the Barracuda 7200.11 bugs. I wasn’t impacted by those but maybe it would’ve been better if I did - it might’ve kept me from buying a couple of those infamously bad 3TB drives they released a few years later.

      edit: also, FWIW, Toshiba is in the midst of spinning off a number of their divisions - including the one that’s responsible for manufacturing HDDs so it might be the case that their old HDD division ends up being bought by Seagate or WD - much like what happened to HGST.