what are the most reliable resilient harddisks - stay away from: Intenso 8tb aka Seagate ST8000DM004 - shingled piece of ... no good for anything especially no good for backups

the harddisk reliability toplist: [caption id="attachment_24209" align="alignnone" width="743"] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html\[/caption\] Backblaze regularly publishes statistics on their harddisk failure rates for different models. also yearly data is published: (thanks! it is really really helpful :) [caption id="attachment_24206" align="alignnone" width="730"] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/\[/caption\] just imagine this worst[...]

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stay away from: Intenso 8tb aka Seagate ST8000DM004 - shingled peace of ... no good for anything especially no good for backups

story goes like this: currently using 2x intenso 4TB with metall casing (work perfectly since ~3 years) the question was: can those be replaced with the 8tb intenso version? short answer: no just hope that this piece of mistake can at least[...]

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Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2021/10/25/stay-away-from-intenso-8tb-aka-seagate-st8000dm004-shingled-peace-of-no-good-for-anything-especially-no-good-for-backups/