Anyone Having Difficulties with Seagate External HD
Feb 10, 2023 08:13:48 #
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Feb 10, 2023 09:55:01 #
Artcameraman
Loc: Springfield NH
The cloud is convenient but I don't trust it so I make a backup or three.
Feb 10, 2023 10:41:42 #
Artcameraman wrote:
The cloud is convenient but I don't trust it so I make a backup or three.
The cloud is safer than your backups, but your local backups are indeed more convenient. The cloud is maintained by professionals, includes multiple copies, and is distributed across much wider areas than you can.
If you only do your own backups, you need software that will keep the backups current without manual intervention.
Feb 10, 2023 12:44:27 #
Retired CPO wrote:
I have always had problems with Seagate Externals. Now I use Western Digital. No problems for about three years now!
Interesting, I have a Seagate that has been running for about 5 years. I bought it because I had several WD go bad on me. Go figure.
Feb 10, 2023 13:43:55 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
Several years ago I had a brand new (30 days old) 1TB internal Laptop Seagate fail on me, the draeded blue screen of death. Then I had my external 2 TB (Few years old) no longer respond. It was spooling up, it just would not allow me to get into it to see any files. Then about a month later I had another (few years old) Seagate external fail to respond.
Seagate just offered to replace them, which was pointless, because I needed the files off the failed HDs, not replacement drives. I have much older WD and Toshiba drives that are still going, many years after purchase. I will never buy another Seagate HD, ever.
I did try a few places to see the cost of recovery but they started at $750 and went up to a few thousand dollars, so I have some paper weights here now. Thankfully a good bit of what was on some of those failed drives, I had on other drives, but not all of it.
Seagate just offered to replace them, which was pointless, because I needed the files off the failed HDs, not replacement drives. I have much older WD and Toshiba drives that are still going, many years after purchase. I will never buy another Seagate HD, ever.
I did try a few places to see the cost of recovery but they started at $750 and went up to a few thousand dollars, so I have some paper weights here now. Thankfully a good bit of what was on some of those failed drives, I had on other drives, but not all of it.
Feb 10, 2023 13:50:42 #
Dikdik wrote:
So, how many Gold disks would I need for a 16 TB drive? and what would they cost? What if I have data that I need to edit? What if I cannot find a Gold disk player in 200 years?
If you are still around in 200 years to have to worry about finding a disc player, god bless you. You could always store one with where you store the discs.
Cheers and best to you
Feb 10, 2023 13:53:24 #
Lucian wrote:
Several years ago I had a brand new (30 days old) ... (show quote)
I use the newer 8TB and larger Seagates and they have lasted far longer than similar size large WD drives. I will never buy another large WD drive again, ever. Even my Fantom drives have outlasted the WD drives.
Cheers and best to you.
Feb 10, 2023 13:57:05 #
Ruthlessrider wrote:
Interesting, I have a Seagate that has been running for about 5 years. I bought it because I had several WD go bad on me. Go figure.
Exactly, and that is what computer techs I know are seeing, a rise in large WD drive failures. All my WD drives, save one have died prematurely. Never again will I waste money on another WD, sorry. They used to be the gold standard in external drives, but lately their large external drives have been more unreliable for me and some of my fellow pros.
Cheers and best to you
Feb 10, 2023 14:06:58 #
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Feb 10, 2023 14:11:30 #
Feb 10, 2023 18:00:22 #
So your hard drive failed? What do you do?
(1) Toss it. You can never trust it again.
(2) You buy a new disk, hopefully a quality product.
(3) You copy all your files from one of your backup disks. (You DO have a backup, don't you? And you have faithfully synchronized it with your operating disks on a frequent regular basis, haven't you? [Or used software that backs things up automatically to your backup drive(s)]).
If your disk and backups failed because of some local problem (fire, theft, line surges...) you back up from your cloud provider.
End of problem.
(1) Toss it. You can never trust it again.
(2) You buy a new disk, hopefully a quality product.
(3) You copy all your files from one of your backup disks. (You DO have a backup, don't you? And you have faithfully synchronized it with your operating disks on a frequent regular basis, haven't you? [Or used software that backs things up automatically to your backup drive(s)]).
If your disk and backups failed because of some local problem (fire, theft, line surges...) you back up from your cloud provider.
End of problem.
Feb 12, 2023 01:31:16 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
WD have owned HGST since 2012. Whatever WD do to make their large capacity drives less reliable you better hope that this process does not migrate to their HGST manf branch.
And to a degree 200/300 year storage ability doesn't matter at all because 2 seconds after your toes are in the ground or we are breathing your atoms who cares what you have stored where.
And to a degree 200/300 year storage ability doesn't matter at all because 2 seconds after your toes are in the ground or we are breathing your atoms who cares what you have stored where.
Feb 12, 2023 01:33:32 #
Dikdik
Loc: Winnipeg, Canada
Others in the future might care? Ansel Adams artwork and crafts continue long after he has gone to the darkroom in the sky...
Feb 12, 2023 02:04:15 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
Dikdik wrote:
Others in the future might care? Ansel Adams artwork and crafts continue long after he has gone to the darkroom in the sky...
You are quite right. My estimation would be 0.001% should be saved for the future.
Feb 12, 2023 13:00:53 #
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