Yeah, I lost 2 of the damn things. They were free, but damn.

I am always so blown away by the ridiculous failure rate of the 3TB Barracuda when Seagate also made the 3TB Constellation I’ve been using without a hitch for so many years.

Never owned a Barracuda because the Backblaze report on their failure rates that showed the Barracuda as the worst of the worst came out before I started shopping for “big” hard drives.

Garbage

Jeejus key riced as an absolute noob few years back was so happy to be able to shuch these and then tragedy struck.

They had similar 4tb drives.

I lost 2 of them. Both died. Plink plink plink dead.

It was lightly used

Barracudas, the B is for bin.

I got once very old 120gb Seagate drive which I took out from Thermaltake case my father had long ago and it’s still doing fine till today

I use one for Plex and it has 4 years and 9 months up time

idk ive never had good luck with seagate drives.

i have 10 Ultrastar helium drives and man, those things are bulletproof i love them

I’ve got six 2tb barracudas with 200k+ hrs and three with 80k+ I’ve only lost one barracuda over the years.

Heh, this particular model is well known for having a high failure rate. Mine did pretty good, considering. I bought four when they were brand new and put them into my server, running OpenSolaris so that I could use ZFS. Ran them for a couple of years, then the server ended up being stored in a metal shed in a forest for five years. Used it for a short while then built a new server. Three of the four disks had a ton of bad sectors, but ZFS came to the rescue and let me transfer everything off without losing a thing - it just took a while. I used the fourth drive as a backup drive for a few months before it started throwing errors.

I still love Seagate and have always had great luck with them, it’s just this particular model that had issues :P