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re: Seagate Personal Cloud 4TB... anyone have any thoughts/opinions?
Posted on 3/7/18 at 4:45 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Posted on 3/7/18 at 4:45 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I hear this a lot, but it's always anecdotal... not disagreeing with you, just have met many who feel similarly about WD (I've also personally had WD drives fail and not Seagate, but again... anecdotal).
If I were just going to buy drives, I'd buy WD because the EasyStore can be shucked for Reds, but on the single drive NAS ready system, the WD product is marginally more expensive but also has awful reviews from a usability standpoint. Not to mention they left a hardcoded backdoor exploit on most of their NAS products sitting around for 6 months with no attempt to correct it until it was announced.
Any recommendations on a better alternative that would stay under $200 or so for 4TB? I am not in a rush... can always return this one and wait for the WD 8TB drives to go on sale again, just not sure I wanna shell out 300 bucks on an enclosure too.
If I were just going to buy drives, I'd buy WD because the EasyStore can be shucked for Reds, but on the single drive NAS ready system, the WD product is marginally more expensive but also has awful reviews from a usability standpoint. Not to mention they left a hardcoded backdoor exploit on most of their NAS products sitting around for 6 months with no attempt to correct it until it was announced.
Any recommendations on a better alternative that would stay under $200 or so for 4TB? I am not in a rush... can always return this one and wait for the WD 8TB drives to go on sale again, just not sure I wanna shell out 300 bucks on an enclosure too.
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Posted on 3/7/18 at 5:13 pm to fibonaccisquared
Newegg has this in today's email.
Mad March Savings: $139.99 Seagate 8TB Ext. Hard Drive if you are interested
Mad March Savings: $139.99 Seagate 8TB Ext. Hard Drive if you are interested
Posted on 3/8/18 at 3:10 pm to fibonaccisquared
quote:
I hear this a lot, but it's always anecdotal... not disagreeing with you, just have met many who feel similarly about WD (I've also personally had WD drives fail and not Seagate, but again... anecdotal). If I were just going to buy drives, I'd buy WD because the EasyStore can be shucked for Reds, but on the single drive NAS ready system, the WD product is marginally more expensive but also has awful reviews from a usability standpoint. Not to mention they left a hardcoded backdoor exploit on most of their NAS products sitting around for 6 months with no attempt to correct it until it was announced. Any recommendations on a better alternative that would stay under $200 or so for 4TB? I am not in a rush... can always return this one and wait for the WD 8TB drives to go on sale again, just not sure I wanna shell out 300 bucks on an enclosure too.
The Seagate fail rate is much higher than WD or Samsung
try this
LINK
WD 4TB My cloud for $179
I have one of the older models from 2016 and still no issues.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 5:48 pm to fibonaccisquared
I have personally handled several hard drives over the years and the Seagates absolutely fail at crazier rate than WD. I prefer WD myself, but that's just my experience.
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