<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">In the now 3 years of experience with Disk Drives Seagate has been the absolute worst for longevity and durability.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The only data loss I have had that was not User error has been the result of Seagate failure.</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">yeah.... guess I don't need it. thanks for the warning.`<br>
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:19 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> that is strange. The drive is 8 years old. I guess it was lightly<br>
> used. Is there such an animal as a hardware tester so i can see what's<br>
> up with it?<br>
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> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:15 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Thanks Brian.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:05 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > The answer is almost certainly yes, but my biggest piece of advice for<br>
> > > you on that would be not to store anything on it that you don't have<br>
> > > very well backed up. The Seagate 2tb drives are terrible. I have a<br>
> > > 100% failure rate on them after about 2 years give or take, and I've<br>
> > > been through a couple dozen on them and the word on the street is that<br>
> > > my experience isn't strange.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Brian Cluff<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On 5/20/20 12:21 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> > > > I'm getting a used 2TB drive and I can't find anything about linux<br>
> > > > compatibility. It is a Seagate Goflex home. My dad says the model<br>
> > > > number is:<br>
> > > > bybap1-520<br>
> > > > or<br>
> > > > pk:pgaw-duzm-nnwp-kybw<br>
> > > > but after about 15 minutes of searching I've given up. Does anyone<br>
> > > > know off hand if it will work?<br>
> > > ><br>
> > ><br>
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