seagate drive

[Stephen Partington]

In the now 3 years of experience with Disk Drives Seagate has been the
absolute worst for longevity and durability.

The only data loss I have had that was not User error has been the result
of Seagate failure.

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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> yeah.... guess I don't need it. thanks for the warning.`
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:19 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > that is strange. The drive is 8 years old. I guess it was lightly
> > used. Is there such an animal as a hardware tester so i can see what's
> > up with it?
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:15 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Brian.
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:05 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
> > > <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The answer is almost certainly yes, but my biggest piece of advice
> for
> > > > you on that would be not to store anything on it that you don't have
> > > > very well backed up.  The Seagate 2tb drives are terrible.  I have a
> > > > 100% failure rate on them after about 2 years give or take, and I've
> > > > been through a couple dozen on them and the word on the street is
> that
> > > > my experience isn't strange.
> > > >
> > > > Brian Cluff
> > > >
> > > > On 5/20/20 12:21 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > > > > I'm getting a used 2TB drive and I can't find anything about linux
> > > > > compatibility. It is a Seagate Goflex home. My dad says the model
> > > > > number  is:
> > > > > bybap1-520
> > > > > or
> > > > > pk:pgaw-duzm-nnwp-kybw
> > > > > but after about 15 minutes of searching I've given up. Does anyone
> > > > > know off hand if it will work?
> > > > >
> > > >
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