<div dir="ltr"><div>I used to be a WD fan, but lately I've had better luck with Seagate.. honestly, it's a model-by-model thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out the Backblaze report. They keep track of their drives failure rates and publish it yearly: <a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 20:16, William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Bitstream Charter">From my readings, <br>
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<li><font face="Bitstream Charter">WD Red is SMR, but <br>
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<li><font face="Bitstream Charter">WD Red Plus and Red Pro are
CMR.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Bitstream Charter">--William</font><br>
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<div>On 3/7/21 7:44 PM, Nickle, Brian wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">One of the things I have been hearing about is to
stay away from Shingled media recording (SMR) disk drives.
Apparently they perform poorly in raid configurations.
Unfortunately not all vendors indicate if the hard drive is SMR
or not.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun., Mar. 7, 2021, 6:46
p.m. Ron Singh, <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Live by the ABS rule
-- A)nything B)ut S)eagate. WD's failure rate is much
better than Seagates. HGST fails the least. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">These days, WD owns
the HGST HDD lines, renamed as WD Red Pro. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I run an 8-drive
QNAP NAS box with 8 pcs of 4TB HGST drives, slow ones,
5200-ish RPM, SAF, but low-power. I never let them spin
down and have not had a failure since they have been in
use since 2013.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Today's 4TB 7200RPM
WD RED PRO stuff:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We have tons of
these 4TB, 8TB and 10TB in service, never had one go bad
in Raid5/Raid6/Raid50 in QNAP and Synology NAS boxes.<br>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
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Ron S.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at
6:31 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>>
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<div> <font face="Bitstream Charter">Hi,<br>
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2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy
something fairly soon. Has Seagate improved their
quality? Or, should I go with Western Digital as I
usually do?<br>
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