Does anyone has any experience on the reliability of the Seagate 8TB archive drives? They are incredibly cheap for cold storage, but a bit concerned by the Seagate numbers in the Backblaze stats...
We also classify a drive as failed when it throws ANY SMART error, then it's diagnosed with Seagate's internal tool (which I believe they are open sourcing, if they haven't already) and put back into production
Seagate has given us good warranties on these drives as well. Yes a higher immediate failure rate (first 1 month) with the 8TB drives was annoying, but they more than made it right replacing the drives.