Seagate 3 TB drive dead

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Six months after the guarantee ran out my Seagate Barracuda 3 TB drive bit the dust. For about a month I heard one of the mechanical drives making some erratic clicking noises, but out of the four mech drives I wasn't sure which one was doing it. This morning while working on a project I went to access the drive in question, and the drive letter disappeared. I rebooted the system to see if it would show up in BIOS, and sure enough it didn't. Changing the cable didn't work either. This isn't the first drive I've lost. Over the years I've lost a few IBM and Seagate hard drives, but never a WD though.
 
I started using nothing but WD drives when I first started building and working on computers. Things were good for awhile and then all of a sudden quite a few failures came along so I switched to Seagate and things were better. For a while anyway until failures started happening. Went back to WD and haven't had any failures yet. I've always thought seagate drives felt cheap to me. I bought a samsung spinpoint drive back in 2005 or 2006 and its still going to this day.
 
Right now I'm using a WD My Passport 2.5" 2 TB external HD for backups until I buy another internal drive. This time I'll probably go with a WD 4 TB Green. For about a year I have been thinking about investing in a NAS backup system for my business.

This is the one I was considering.

Synology DiskStation DS415play with 4 WD 4 TB drives.

It will double as a home media server and a backup for my work projects. I'm pretty impressed with Synology's Disk Station Management software. Here in Germany the whole setup would cost me around 1,100 Euros.
 
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Sucks your drive died. Funnily enough my Seagate Barracuda 3TB recently died too. It was in my Buffalo NAS and stored my photography backup. That's the second Seagate drive that has died on me lately so I'll probably stick to WD now since I have had much more luck with them.

I can tell you that Synology NASes are awesome. I have a DS214se and that's great. The mobile apps are very handy and the DSM OS the NASes run is fantastic and has many useful features and apps you can install.
 
I've got 1, 2, 3 and 4TB WD drives all of which are working perfectly after years of use. My WD 3TB is about 3 or 4 years old and is still going. To be fair though, the NAS my Seagate 3TB was in was in the garage (can get very cold, very hot and a bit dirty!) and it was spinning 24/7/365 so it's probably not a huge surprise it is dead after a few years. Surprisingly though when I took the NAS apart to get the disk out of the NAS it was surprisingly clean, if a little hot. I ran SeaTools on it and after about 20 seconds it told me to replace my drive! :D
 
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It seems like Seagate has a few models that have horrific failure rates compared to others.

A similar situation happened with the 1.5 TB drives when they first came out around 2009ish.
 
I will not own a toshiba or hitachi drive. I'm always replacing them in laptops due to failures. Until failures start happening with the WD drives I get then I'm sticking with WD and only WD.

Oh where is S.T.A.R.S.??? lmao.
 
johnb35 said:
I'm always replacing them in laptops due to failures.
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Hmm, I'm always hesitant of laptop grade drives since most users are derps anyway and slam their machine around while it's reading data, or drop it, or stuff it in a bag while still on, etc.

I used to work at a PC shop in a college town, it was ridiculous how many students just left it on and walked around with it in the backpack. Plenty of money was made at least for hard drive replacements lol.
 
Yeah, I don't get it either. Someone will want me to work on their laptop and I'll bring it home and turn it on and find out it was hibernating instead of being turned off.
 
according to backblaze hitachi drives are the absolute most reliable, and seagate (though ive loved them in the past) are currently the worst drives you can buy.

hitachi, or hgst 3tb deskstar's are the best buy right now for reliability
 

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I've definitely noticed it seems SG drives fail more. Oddly though I have a 250gb Seagate that I used as my gaming drive that kept on ticking until I switched to an SSD for my gaming rig.
 
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