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@rusty__shackleford Call it whatever you want, but before the advent of SSDs, I exclusively bought western digital black edition drives. None of them ever died through the life of the systems I used them on, and both working and playing on my systems daily, that was, and still is an accomplishment.
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Maxtor, on the other hand...
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Maxtor, on the other hand...
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford if Maxtor was a human we would call them genocidal
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Maxtor, on the other hand...
@gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I just heard way too much bad shit about seagate, maxtor, and others. I was like "do I pay a little bit more, or do I play hard drive roulette."
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Maxtor, on the other hand...
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@gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I just heard way too much bad shit about seagate, maxtor, and others. I was like "do I pay a little bit more, or do I play hard drive roulette."
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Seagate were OK, middle of the road, but I never met a Maxtor drive (especially in the IDE era) that I felt had any interest in keeping data alive. every one of them rasped and clicked to an early grave.
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford Seagate were OK, middle of the road, but I never met a Maxtor drive (especially in the IDE era) that I felt had any interest in keeping data alive. every one of them rasped and clicked to an early grave.
@gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I've only ever had one WD drive fail on me over the years, and it was grave robbed from a system that had seen years of hard work, before placing that drive into a makeshift ESXi box, and even then it lasted like another 3ish years before giving up.
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@gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I just heard way too much bad shit about seagate, maxtor, and others. I was like "do I pay a little bit more, or do I play hard drive roulette."
@da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I'm so old I remember when Maxtor bought Quantum _to improve Maxtor's quality_ and that's still hilarious. It's like buying ZipDrive to use their tech in your SANs.
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@da_667 Ugh. Don’t remind me about my recently deceased Exos HDD -.-
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@gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I've only ever had one WD drive fail on me over the years, and it was grave robbed from a system that had seen years of hard work, before placing that drive into a makeshift ESXi box, and even then it lasted like another 3ish years before giving up.
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford I've been using WD Red Pro in my NAS since 2015, in 24/7 operation. I still have two from 2015 running in there, and another two from 2015 were only just replaced last week due to failure. those last two are pushing 90k hours of flying head time.
I have had three fail within the 5 year warranty - two at the 4 year mark and one within 6 months of deployment (likely a random defect), but that's pretty good going over the space of 11 years.
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@da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I'm so old I remember when Maxtor bought Quantum _to improve Maxtor's quality_ and that's still hilarious. It's like buying ZipDrive to use their tech in your SANs.
@ra6bit @da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I'm so old I remember being at a LAN where a guy had a Quantum Bigfoot for a HDD
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford I've been using WD Red Pro in my NAS since 2015, in 24/7 operation. I still have two from 2015 running in there, and another two from 2015 were only just replaced last week due to failure. those last two are pushing 90k hours of flying head time.
I have had three fail within the 5 year warranty - two at the 4 year mark and one within 6 months of deployment (likely a random defect), but that's pretty good going over the space of 11 years.
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford I am slowly replacing the 6TiB drives with 8TiB since they are barely any difference in price; once those last two originals are gone I'll be able to boop the raidz2 up to 64TiB raw.
I had hoped to do a refresh with 18TiB drives this year, netting myself 288TiB raw, but alas the pricing is obscene.
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@ra6bit @da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I'm so old I remember being at a LAN where a guy had a Quantum Bigfoot for a HDD
@Mustardfacial @ra6bit @da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford some of us are old enough to remember when IBM made their own drives, and they were very much best in class in every way.
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@Mustardfacial @ra6bit @da_667 @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford some of us are old enough to remember when IBM made their own drives, and they were very much best in class in every way.
@rootwyrm @Mustardfacial @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford lmao, deathstars.
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@da_667 @rusty__shackleford I am slowly replacing the 6TiB drives with 8TiB since they are barely any difference in price; once those last two originals are gone I'll be able to boop the raidz2 up to 64TiB raw.
I had hoped to do a refresh with 18TiB drives this year, netting myself 288TiB raw, but alas the pricing is obscene.
@da_667 @rusty__shackleford (it's not as pants-on-head batshit offensive as the SSD pricing has become, but it's still enough to sting when you want 16 drives, and anti-scalping measures are making buying 16 drives from anywhere trustworthy very annoying right now)
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@rootwyrm @Mustardfacial @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford lmao, deathstars.
@da_667 @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford The first HDD that ever failed on me was a deathstar lmao. This is after having multiple Maxtors, and Seagates that would last YEARS
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@da_667 @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford The first HDD that ever failed on me was a deathstar lmao. This is after having multiple Maxtors, and Seagates that would last YEARS
@Mustardfacial @da_667 @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford look, it's not my fault or theirs that you didn't buy the good shit. All of mine still work just fine. Especially the UltraStars.
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@Mustardfacial @da_667 @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford look, it's not my fault or theirs that you didn't buy the good shit. All of mine still work just fine. Especially the UltraStars.
I still have some HP-branded IBM made ones too.@rootwyrm @da_667 @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I had a choice between buying a set of Ronal Teddy Bears for my Mk.2 Jetta or buying a good HDD. Sacrifices had to be made and those Ronal's are too funny to not buy.
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@rootwyrm @da_667 @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I had a choice between buying a set of Ronal Teddy Bears for my Mk.2 Jetta or buying a good HDD. Sacrifices had to be made and those Ronal's are too funny to not buy.
@Mustardfacial @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford fun fact: I burned all the money I got from high school graduation on my first PC. 1GB of RAM, XP pro, Radeon 9800 pro, AMD athlon 2600+, soundblaster audio card. Most people? "let me pick up a used car." me? nah, fuck that. give me a computer.
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@Mustardfacial @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford fun fact: I burned all the money I got from high school graduation on my first PC. 1GB of RAM, XP pro, Radeon 9800 pro, AMD athlon 2600+, soundblaster audio card. Most people? "let me pick up a used car." me? nah, fuck that. give me a computer.
@da_667 @Mustardfacial @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford and now y'all are just straight up making me feel ancient. I think I still have my AWE32 around here somewhere. I definitely have a stack of Maxtor drives.
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@Mustardfacial @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford fun fact: I burned all the money I got from high school graduation on my first PC. 1GB of RAM, XP pro, Radeon 9800 pro, AMD athlon 2600+, soundblaster audio card. Most people? "let me pick up a used car." me? nah, fuck that. give me a computer.
@da_667 @rootwyrm @ra6bit @gsuberland @rusty__shackleford I spent all summer sweeping floors in an auto shop when I was 15 to buy my first PC to play Unreal Tournament and Starsiege Tribes with my friends.
- Intel Pentium 2 300MHz
- 64MB RAM
- Voodoo 2 3000 AGP
- Soundblaster
- Some wild MSI motherboard that had multi colour PCI slots
