I’ve had my 16TB ironwolf pros spinning for 5 years in my NAS, no issues. People love to trash Seagate but I can’t say I’ve had any issues. I also have 6x10TB barracuda pros and they’re fine too, for about 10 years.

I think refurbished enterprise drives usually have a lot of extra protection hardware that helps them last a very long time. Seagate advertises a mean time to failure on their exos drives of ~200 years with a moderate level of usage. I feel like it would almost always be a better choice to get more refurbished enterprise drives than fewer new consumer drives.

I personally found an 8tb exos on serverpartdeals for ~$100 which seems to be in very good condition after checking the SMART monitoring. I'm just using it as a backup so there isn't any data on it that isn't also somewhere else, so I didn't bother with redundancy.

I'm not an expert, but this is just from the research I did before buying that backup drive.

there was a time i asked this question about 500 megabytes

I too, am old.

Why do you wound me like this?

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.