http://www.backblaze.com/ posted an annual report on the most commonly failing products… interesting results to follow and interestingly enough I’ve never seen a Hitachi drive for sale anywhere… anyone have an insight on why that may be?
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I want to say Apple was using them for internal drives at one point, could be wrong. I’d also be interested to know if by failure they mean the enclosure or the drive itself.
I may jinx myself, but I’ve personally witnessed 4 western digital hard drive failures and no seagate failures. All internal drives.
Reports Validates my experiences
Times have changed. Years ago we used to call the Hitach Deskstar the “Deathstar” due to higher than average failure rates.
Hitachi’s hard drive division is now owned by Western Digital – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
very interesting. Bit of an eye opener for me. I’ve had several WD drives fail and redundancy with unreliable product is just as good as no backup at all.
If you have a second do check out http://www.BlackBlaze.com what they offer for the price and the quality of how they offer it is very very impressive. I really do like the idea of always having the data spinning… I recently had to do a recovery from a stack of optical discs with a 50% failure rate… Their business model and implementation is something I’ve never seen before.
It looks interesting, but I can’t say I trust storing sensitive data with a 3rd party. Plus if there’s any kind of outage, could be stuck. Wouldn’t use optical for long term storage either, I’ve had them degrade over time. Plus there’s theories that current drive speeds exceed what the discs were built to handle. Saw one shatter and thought it was random til I saw this http://youtu.be/JOb6Z5Tja68
this software (http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-software/cd-dvd-recovery-mac.php) saved my ass… unreadable CDRs became useful and readable again!
if you’re “scar-e-noide” about 3rd party data handling zip it, encrypt it , don’t forget the password and don’t include it in the archive in a text file… like some people do