schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1149cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squarejws_shadotak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 hours agoMost high capacity drives are CMR, if that helps. https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/#WD_CMR_SMR_drive_list Compare this with Backblaze drive stats to get a reliable product: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/ Drives failures vary by model number more than by manufacturer. Buy seller refurbished drives from serverpartdeals if you don’t want the companies to get your money.
Most high capacity drives are CMR, if that helps.
https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/#WD_CMR_SMR_drive_list
Compare this with Backblaze drive stats to get a reliable product:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/
Drives failures vary by model number more than by manufacturer. Buy seller refurbished drives from serverpartdeals if you don’t want the companies to get your money.