On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:43:39 +1000, "jeikppkywk"
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"Jethro_uk" wrote in message
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Steer well clear of Seagate.

Work fine for me.

And this is the thing with hard drives, they seem to be like tyres or
oil re the feelings of their supporters / detractors. ;-)

My first 'big' drive was a half height, 3.5" Seagate 80MB SCSI and I
may still have it somewhere and it's probably still working. ;-)

The Buffalo TeraStation I was given the other day came with three x
2012 and one 2009 2TB Seagate Barracudas and one of the 2012 drives
had failed it's SMART test because of reallocated blocks.

The NAS hadn't been running for a while before being given to me
(possibly a few years) but was probably on 27/7 from new (possibly
2009 from the age of the oldest drive). So I'm guessing the other 3
2009 drives had already failed?

Cheers, T i m