German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours

[spacecadet@feddit.nl]

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they're coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

I only wanted it for a Jellyfin drive. The one thing it could have been useful for and it even failed at that.

Seems like you need to pay the extra for an Ironwolf drive to get an actual "just like the good old days" HDD.

[anunusualrelic@lemmy.world]

It may depend on the level of "refurbishing" that's been done, but I don't believe that's a very good idea.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

Landlord just got me a new washing machine. I’ve been burning it in since Sunday.

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

I can tell your lieing, because your pants are on fire.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

Since the other answer is desktop use, if in Linux your best bet is smartctl.

[chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net]

Just don’t buy Seagate. Their drives consistently have the highest annualized failure rate on Backblaze reports ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/6-AFR-by-Manufacturer.png ), and is consistent with my experience in small anecdotal sample of roughly 30 drives. This results in a ripple effect where the failed drive adds more work to the other drives (array rebuild after replacement), thereby increasing their risk of failing, too.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

No no, that was the old washer setting pants on fire.

[sik0fewl@lemmy.ca]

What do you recommend instead?

[dozzi92@lemmy.world]

My parents bought a beach house (a bungalow on a postage stamp, before anyone gets an ideas that we're some 1%ers) and it came with an old washer dryer. My old man put a single pair of jeans in the dryer and seemingly forgot about them. He says he did it for a timer. Leaves the house. Nobody there for a week. My mom comes in, dryer still running, jeans essentially translucent at this point. One of the things you can laugh at only because it wasn't a tragedy.

[sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Western Digital used to be great. Don't know if they still are. I never had an issue with any of my HDDs from them (I only ever bought the high end stuff though)

[ataridump@lemmy.world]

I do; I use a four pass destructive run of badblocks on new drives before implementing them.

[ataridump@lemmy.world]

…when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

And had a five year warranty.