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Veteran68:
Yeah I referenced BackBlaze and their HDD reports earlier. I trust their data and conclusions, they've been doing this a long time and have been quite transparent about the details and what's worked and what hasn't. I would certainly *hope* that things have improved over time, so I'm encouraged that failures even among Seagate is better than it used to be. Fortunately I rarely deal in HDDs anymore, and when I do they tend to be datacenter class drives for the NAS. All of my desktops/workstations and laptops are 100% SSD. Even my current NAS has 2x 1TB NVMe SSDs for caching.
Shock:
Based on the logic as presented, I'm avoiding Amazon and Western Digital.
Veteran68:

--- Quote from: Shock on September 28, 2023, 04:39:43 pm ---Based on the logic as presented, I'm avoiding Amazon and Western Digital.

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I've never had an issue with either. Don't believe I've ever had a WD drive fail. I'm currently running 14TB Gold data center grade drives in my NAS, but I have run all classes of WD drives before (Green, Black, Blue, Red). Hitachi/HGST and Toshiba were my preference, but I'd also use WD. Then as I recall WD bought up one or both of those, so all my picks are now WD of some flavor.
DiTBho:
My 2010 disks are ST3500418AS
Some bad disks are ST3000DM001
DiTBho:
In this specific case, 6 HDD are always needed for the NAS multi node project: with which modern HDDs can I replace the 6 discs from 2010?

I don't want to deal with SSDs

I'll definitely have problems like this

* SATA2 would be better as the SiliconImage chip is SATA2, all modern stuff is >SATA2
* it would be better not to manage more than 500GB, because then the internal partitions (mac-part) are max 20GB, and if the disks are over 1TB, there are definitely too many ... anyway, tthis means, that I am right to take a modern disk but with the smaller capacity possible
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