I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
No fucking way. Do you have any more diagnostic telemetry about that you’d be willing to share?
Edit: I don’t think it’s impossible for these drives to fail (Their failure rate isn’t zero), so I’m not accusing you of anything. It’s just that their failure rate is so low, I’ve never heard of it before. But any information you’re willing to share I’d be happy to hear.
Havent pulled it yet since I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll update you when I pull it and check it out. I’ve had tons of drives die over the years but this one hits the hardest since prices have skyrocketed. Hopefully the other 5 drives hold the line for longer
Oh, so it was pretty recent? Sorry to hear that buddy.
What kind of drives are you buying? What’s your use case?
See, I buy those EXOS drives because they are sea gates top of the line enterprise class server grade hard drives. They’re expensive, but they’ve always been very much worth it.
Are you getting those, too? Or are you getting different brands in different models?
I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
Had an 18tb Seagate exos shit the bed on my jellyfin server a couple weeks ago. It had about 3 years usage at least
No fucking way. Do you have any more diagnostic telemetry about that you’d be willing to share?
Edit: I don’t think it’s impossible for these drives to fail (Their failure rate isn’t zero), so I’m not accusing you of anything. It’s just that their failure rate is so low, I’ve never heard of it before. But any information you’re willing to share I’d be happy to hear.
Havent pulled it yet since I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll update you when I pull it and check it out. I’ve had tons of drives die over the years but this one hits the hardest since prices have skyrocketed. Hopefully the other 5 drives hold the line for longer
Oh, so it was pretty recent? Sorry to hear that buddy.
What kind of drives are you buying? What’s your use case?
See, I buy those EXOS drives because they are sea gates top of the line enterprise class server grade hard drives. They’re expensive, but they’ve always been very much worth it.
Are you getting those, too? Or are you getting different brands in different models?
Most folks would buy consumer-grade Seagate drives. I am having a hunch that those would not be remotely comparable to EXOS drives.