Are seagate drives reliable?

[whatismyproblem]

are seagate drives reliable?

what are the most reliable hdds??

thanks

 

[nhasian]

yes, Seagate drives are reliable. all HDDs are mechanical and will wear and eventually fail.

 

[amdfangirl]

Just do RAID 1 with two hard drives.

If we pretend that failure rate at the moment is 1%. Having 2 hard drives is 1% x 1% = 0.01% of them both failing. More disks, less chance of them all failing.