Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive - Black @ COTD $188.30 - Club Catch Required

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Jvin on 31/05/2016 - 19:58 catchoftheday.com.au (393 clicks)
Last edited 31/05/2016 - 20:12 by 1 other user

Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive - Black

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  syousef on 31/05/2016 - 20:10

  -1

  Club catch kills the deal.

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    Jamesx on 31/05/2016 - 20:47

    Killed by club members anyway

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  [Deactivated] on 31/05/2016 - 21:41

  And nothing of value was lost.

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  avgbowlofpho on 31/05/2016 - 21:51

  +1

  Lol really?, Seagate?, craps itself in a week

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    yanman on 31/05/2016 - 21:56

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    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-…

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      voter1 on 31/05/2016 - 22:13

      +1

      haha - usually people quote backblaze when they want to diss seagate with their crappy failure rates and praise WD.

      People just dont realize that their numbers arent equal at all.
      1) they are using enterprize hitachi drives - therefore very low failure
      2) seagate drives they some models they are using a LOT - normal failure rates - some drives very few - so high% means nothing when you only surveying 50 drives.
      3) cant say much about WD because they are using very few drives of theirs in total.

      in conclusion - its all just luck of the draw - the differences between brands is negligible
      btw i use all brands myself - just depends on what is cheapest at the time.

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        yanman on 31/05/2016 - 22:18

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        I'd say there isn't luck there's MTBF. Backblaze are using such high numbers that their stats are very valuable, and show that even the most unreliable are still not too bad, especially when you manage the risk by using them in RAID volumes.

        Backblaze use the cheapest drives available, as their blogs will tell you. If you manage the risk of individual component failure then the only statistic that matters is the overall cost with failure rate included.

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        syousef on 31/05/2016 - 23:05

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        You're talking complete nonsense and it's clear you haven't even looked at the latest stats:

        https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201…

        1) They use whatever is cheapest which is very much like what we do on Ozbargain.
        2) The individual model that has failed at the highest cumulative failure rate is Seagate's STD3000DM001 - 28.3% of 4074 drives. Hardly insignificant quantity. Basically 1 in 3 die horribly within a couple of years. This drive is the subject of a class action law suit. (As an aside: My own anecdotal experience very closely matches).
        3) WD had the higher failure rate as a percentage in 2015 thanks to models W20EFRX and W30EFRX - Almost 7% of 1681 drives.