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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Bought some of the old versions for backup drives. That was a mistake.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] KaRunChiy@kbin.run 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Very high failure rate. even sony 2.5's have a similar rate of death. For some reason this form factor is just terrible for longevity

[–] fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My bet is on density. You cram so much in such a tiny space, so any tiny imperfection or fault will corrupt the data or render the drive unusable.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

At the time it was fine. I had an array of 4tb drives that I was backing up with a series of 5gb drives. They were just so unreliable; all but one failed while the array they backed up is still spinning strong.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Bingo. Sorry, had typed a reply about my failure rate and difficulties getting an RMA but forgot to submit.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Not exactly reliable and less than easy rma process.

Sorry, had typed this and forgotten to hit submit :(