• skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    In my case, 10+years ago I had 6 * 3tb Seagate disks in a software raid 5. Two of them failed and it took me days to force it back into the raid and get some of the data off. Now I use WD and raid 6.

    I read 3 or 4 years ago that it was just the 3tb reds I used had a high failure rate but I’m still only buying WDs

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I had a single red 2TB in an old tivo roamio for almost a decade.

      Pulled out this weekend, and finally tested it. Failed.

      I was planning to move my 1.5T music collection to it. Glad I tested it first, lol.