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Pretty much the case with everything nowadays, all cheap disposable stuff made in China.
Although I remember nightmares with the 'high storage' drives back in the day, because they had to stack more platters - definitely took awhile to work out the kinks. Have had to return a few 750GB-1.5TB drives in my day.
But still have some old 1TB WD Greens from 08-ish running good even after being migrated between a couple enclosures/machines over the years.
I've never had a Seagate SSHD fail on me and I'm torrenting alot. Just bought a additional one
http://www.hardeschijfstore.nl/product/371289/seagate-desktop-sshd-1-tb.html
should be ok for another 4+ years.
quite expensive for a 1TB drive..
So far it's been worth it, my old sshd drive from Seagate was in the same price range back in the days and its still working great. If i had bought a cheaper one it might would have already failed.
but in reality they aint that much different to the normal drives (The momentus / Barracuda ), just a 8GB cache for boot and general bits.
i still have my old Momentus XT and it's still reliable after 14k hours, infact it's perfect but not really worth the investment though.
Why is that remarkable? I run on 4GB without a problem; we have 2GB VMs at work.
6GB for a single install. that's HDD not RAM
Not that I am that big on any drive brand. I have an older, second hand Seagate 160 GB notebook drive in my home server. The drive was put into the server as a temporary measure to run the OS, but 36600 hours (4+ years) later, it is still going. No plans to replace it until it dies.
At work, we have about 200 servers, desktops and laptops running a variety of drives of all ages and from 500 GB to 5 TB size and from all manufacturers. Cannot say that any drive is better then any as we do see the occasional failure across all brands.
Hum Seagate is quite cheap - best price per TB I find in my area are with the Barracuda 3 To (ST3000DM001) but the failure rate seems pretty high if you trust the data given by @Hidden_Refuge !
Edit: even cheaper would be WE-HDD-3000-WD but it seems like it's a WD green sold by WE and without WD warranty so not sure it's worth it. Could make sense following @mikeyur idea about warranty. But Hitachi still seems to be the best built quality from what I read here and there... but it seems like there's also some luck involved when dealing with hard drives
Here's newer data about the failure rates if someone's interested
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/
Hehe. Seagate/Samsung went down to like 4%. Not bad. WD still bad...