[BBLISA] Whatever happened to Seagate?

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:46:34AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
> Western Digital bought out the Hitachi storage division, which worried me a
> lot at the time, but so far hasn't compromised its top-tier quality.  So I'm
> tossing out a bunch of Seagates in favor of Hitachi.  But regrettably, that
> means my servers will have similar-vintage drives in years to come.  At least
> I have Nagios watching them!
> 
> RIP, Seagate?  Do you share that sentiment?  (And, are you monitoring all your
> drives' temperature and error counters?)

Every few years, somebody comes along with a bad batch or a bad
process. Right now it's Seagate's turn at the bottom of the
barrel.

Try again next year. In the meantime, we're starting to have
plausible prices on 1TB SSDs...

-dsr-