I had a similar experience with Samsung. I had a bunch of evo 870 SSDs up and die for no reason. Turns out, it was a firmware bug in the drive and they just need an update, but the update needs to take place before the drive fails.

I had to RMA the failures. The rest were updated without incident and have been running perfectly ever since.

I'd still buy Samsung.

I didn't lose a lot of data, but I can certainly understand holding a grudge on something like that. From the other comments here, hate for Seagate isn't exactly rare.

One of the worst things that the newer Windows versions did is get rid of that little view of defragmenting. It was much more interesting than watching a number slowly tick up.

Depending on the quality you want to deal with, at least 3.

Forza Horizon 4 and 5 don't say they require an SSD I think, but when I had it on my hard drive any cars that did over 250kph caused significant world loading issues, as in I'd fall out of the world because it didn't load the map.

Forza Horizon 4 actually does include an SSD in its requirements. Thank you for reminding me about that.

It does technically work without it, just don'tgo over A class, don't do sprints and there was 1 normal circuit that's a tad big in a forest bit

If a game isn't fully playable without an SSD, then I consider it a requirement.

Ever try playing Perfect Dark without an Expansion Pak back in the day? It'll technically work, but you'll get locked out of 90% of the game, including the campaign. Similar thing with SSDs today.

well, it depends. if they were dropped just because they are smr and were writing slowly, I think they are fine. but otherwise...

what array system do you use? some raid software, or zfs?

I "only" have a 1TB SDD. If I wanted to download a new game I would have to delete one that's already on here.

I don't know, because haven't been around long enough, but yeah possibly they started using the red pro type there

It's to play Ark: Survival Evolved.

What's scrubbing for?

Christ, remember when NewEgg was an actual store? Now they’re just a listing service for the scum-level of retailer and drop shippers. What a shame.

A ZFS Scrub validates all the data in a pool and corrects any errors.

Great, can't wait to afford it in 60 years.

What drives do you have exactly? I have 7x6TB WD Red Pro drives in raidz2 and I can do a scrub less than 24 hours.

There is an enterprise storage shelf (aka a bunch of drives that hooks up to a server) made by Dell which is 1.2 PB (yes petabytes). So there is a use, but it's not for consumers.

I worked on a terrain render of the entire planet. We were filling three 2 Tb drives a day for a month. So this would have been handy.

This hard drive is so big, that astronomers thought it was a planet.

That's a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it's hard to actually make use of it all.

For example, let's say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you're talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.