😂 seagate developed a bad rep now. on a serious note i use Cryptsetup and LUKS - open-source disk encryption as described here https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ for my #Linux system 🔥
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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 23:58:28 JST nixCraft 🐧 -
spikederailed (spikederailed@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 00:04:06 JST spikederailed @nixCraft Two jobs ago working at an MSP my boss chucked a Seagate SMR drive in a raid array to replace a previously failed Seagate drive and didn't understand why it took over a week to resilver.
I'm shocked another drive didn't fail in the resilvering process.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 07:00:38 JST Nazo @nixCraft I've never particularly understood that. As far as I've ever been able to find, most metrics have them at no higher of a failure rate than any other brand. It really feels to me like the fanboyism effect got in and just WD had more fans, so Seagate became a hate target for a larger number of people, then others just fell for the repetition.
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Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 20:33:53 JST Owen Tyme @nixCraft I don't like Seagate, but that's all based on personal experience. Both Seagate hard drives I owned died within six months to a year of purchase.
Maxxstor was even worse. Weeks. Eww.
I tried Western Digital and never looked back, because they do what they say on the tin, which is all I ask for. I've only seen two WD drives go bad. One of those failed a SMART test the day I got it home. Took it back, got a replacement. It happens, fair enough. The other lived 8 years, first.
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