Why are people still buying Seagate products? Their hard drives have always had relatively high failure rates in comparison to other brands, so you're really shooting dice with their discs. HGST drive failures are nearly unheard of in comparison, and tend to perform better as well.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/
Don't buy Seagate drives, ever. If shopping for HDD's, go Western Digital or HGST, (which incidentally I believe is owned by Western Digital now), and for SSD's go Samsung or Sandisk.
How?PS4 has a nice feature that allows you to back up ALL saves at once to USB. There is no reason not to use it occasionally ;)
Why are people still buying Seagate products? Their hard drives have always had relatively high failure rates in comparison to other brands, so you're really shooting dice with their discs. HGST drive failures are nearly unheard of in comparison, and tend to perform better as well.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/
Don't buy Seagate drives, ever. If shopping for HDD's, go Western Digital or HGST, (which incidentally I believe is owned by Western Digital now), and for SSD's go Samsung or Sandisk.
Around the time people were first talking about replacing the HDD in their consoles this survey was posted (on the old site) showing Seagate drives at the time were indeed less reliable than the competition overall.hmm, aren't Seagates in general not very reliable?
I think I remember hearing that but that was a while ago so I dunno if that's still the case
Isn't the BarraCuda an alternative? Has better reviews and is cheaper.There was no alternative to Segate's Firecuda 2TB SSHD for PS4 when I bought it last year; I never buy Seagate for data storage. Are there any similar drives by other makers?
If this is the problem then surely it can be repaired. Now if the problem was the physical platters then the data would be unrecoverable.I put the drive in a USB enclosure to test it, and it won't even spin up again.
There was no alternative to Segate's Firecuda 2TB SSHD for PS4 when I bought it last year
Seagate was already trash around 2005, i worked in a computer store and we had many Barracudas that failed. Go with Western Digital if you have the option.
Is your console turned off when you don't use it? Completely turned off, not power savings mode. Because otherwise the HDDs run 24/7 and are not built for that, you need server grade HDDs for that.
I have a 4GB one. Should I be concerned?
Has been running great so far.
I've had Seagates and WD drives fail on me in various systems over the years
Never a Toshiba, but I haven't had as many
SSHDs are really common nowadays and barely more expensive than a standard HDD, the reason why the BarraCuda is well reviewed is that it is slightly faster than average. I'm not sure why anyone would buy a firecuda instead (as they're slower and cost more *and* have a higher failure rare appearantly)I have the same but goddamn I wish WD had the same type of thing for the same price that I could use for PS4 Pro as I would rather have one of them. Seagate is iffy at best and has been for years.
The Toshiba in my PS3 died after few years. It can happen with every brand.