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Dissenting opinion: I've owned and used a lot of Seagate drives. I have had a total of one fail on me. Given that they are usually less expensive they are then competing drives, I think they're fine. At the rate of disk size growth I end up replacing the disks for size reasons before they fail anyway.

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My experience is the opposite. 100% of the Seagate drives I have purchased for personal use (total: 4) experienced failures within the warranty period, and of the drives I had a hand in purchasing professionally at least half needed replacement within the warranty period (~64).

I think Seagate is fine if you are willing to overbuild and deal with the refurb process within the warranty period. I'm not, and will not personally buy a Seagate product again unless their reputation improves (similar to what happened with IBM/HGST post-deathstar). It's not worth the time or aggravation, to me.

All I can say is my experience differs. The only Seagate drives I've had that kind of failure rate with were the 3TB ones that were out, IIRC, around the time of The Great Disk Shortage.

I've still got my 1tb seagate up and running from around six years ago? No problems with that but all the 3tb I've encountered all seemed to have failed quite quickly. Maybe it's the specific model that I got but the higher capacities, in my case, tend to be more faulty.

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