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Seems like WD effect appeared on their 8TB drives :-/ My NAS has 5x 4TB HGST I bought due to previous Backblaze reports and am waiting to figure out which 8TB drives should I buy - Seagate Archive had really bad real-world usage reviews and now HGST seems to be slipping as well :-(



If you look at the number of drives and the length of time they've had the drives, you quickly realize that you need to take it with a grain of salt. They even state in the article they don't have enough data to come to any conclusion on those drives.


Sure, but seeing older HGSTs running longer time having 0-2% failure rate and 8TB one >5%, which brings it to WD territory, is not very encouraging.




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