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you'll want 2 in a RAID 1 if you can afford it. Just in case.
I would not buy anything related to Seagate even if are 100gb HDD..
whats the problem with them being read regularly?These are cold storage drives, they are not meant to be read every day and run like you would a NAS drive. You write your data to these disks as TRUE backups and leave them alone for the one day you need data as you accidentally deleted it.
Never had a Seagate drive go bad on me. Running 5 of the 4TB NAS drives without issue.
whats the problem with them being read regularly?
dont you mean write
No, reading data does not involve any writes on SMR disks.He does. But technically it's re writing data to the disc.
No, reading data does not involve any writes on SMR disks.
For 5 years in a row (out of ~75 Seagates spinning 24/7/365) I had to RMA 10+ Seagate drives. Although like your response I do not have 1000s of drives so my experience is pretty meaningless as far as describing the millions of drives Seagate sells annually.
Fair enough. When I read the Backblaze article, the thing that caught my attention was the fact that the consistent failing drives were all 7200.12's in the 1.5TB or 3TB size (IIRC...probably a different model, but the capacities were right). Might have just been a bad model.
seagate say it for so it can be that bad Online archiving
Large data object storage
Big data cold storage
Cloud active archive
Web-scale archiving
www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/enterprise-servers-storage/nearline-storage/archive-hdd/