So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?
Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?
This one is currently a paperweight
I’ve got a 16TB Iron Wolf Pro (which was listed as an Exos on Amazon but that’s another issue). And apart from the noise, which is to be expected as higher capacity is intended for servers so can’t blame them too much for that, and so far it’s doing ok. This 3TB White Label Barracuda is the only drive I’ve had die in 20 years. I still think I’ve got some old IDE Maxxtor drives which still work.