Not much to say here, had a drive fail during pandemic lockdown, but the raid, although degraded, kept working. Today got to replacing the bad drive. Upon rebuild, another drive failed. RIP 3TB of data. RIP escrow. I had 100% reputation on all sattelites :smiley: It has been a good run!

This “boy”, have another proposition for you :slight_smile: If you alredy bring your RAID5 up and running but can’t recover your db’s… just delete your db’s (it not a joke) and try run your node.

i kinda try to steer clear of seagate… but if they start consistently making good drives then sure ill buy seagate… seagates really bad rep i think comes from the major flooding event the better part of a decade ago… their drive reliability after that was terrible at best… these days their drives se…

Lucky enough you now have 2 manufacturers left…fingers crossed these won’t each have a single drive fail on you, because that would mean you could never ever buy any HDD again :frowning_man: Are you implying that I had just one Seagate drive fail on me? :smiley:

[image] BrightSilence: Yet in the past 2 years my last 3 WD drives have died. Does that mean I won’t buy WD anymore? Of course not. Sounds reasonable enough. 3 failed drives over 2 years is probably annoying, but not totally unreasonable. However, my own experience with Seagate drives has not…

With those numbers, I’m going to guess they were ST3000DM001 drives. I’m not going to claim Seagate never made a bad model… they did. This model was so bad that something like 80% would die within 4 years. Clearly that was only a very specific issue with this model. [image] LarsOS: 3 failed dri…

I was, but then again I was also joking :wink:

[image] BrightSilence: SHR2 from Seagate …ahem, Synology :wink:

Like it never happened… thanks :wink:

Yes, it was ST3000DM001. A bunch of them died over a few weeks at my job, nearly taking a 6 drive RAID with them. As soon as a drive went down, we got a replacement under warranty, and I rebuilt the RAID. The only problem was that the warranty replacement drives were just as short lived as the origi…

[image] twl: Lucky enough you now have 2 manufacturers left…fingers crossed these won’t each have a single drive fail on you, because that would mean you could never ever buy any HDD again :frowning Actually no, fingers crossed they won’t all fail before they become obsolete like their compet…

I can imagine avoiding them after something like that happens. As for why anecdotes are meaningless, your personal experience with a few drives is usually not representative of all drives out there. However with this specific model it’s a different story, there is more than enough evidence out there…

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Raid 5 failed. 3TB node dead. Recovered partially and going through GE thanks to forum

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