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Originally Posted by RCoon
So my question is, are some people just super unlucky, or are Seagate drives really that unreliable? I've had my two drives for 2 years now, is it time to backup and replace?
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All mechanical hardware will eventually fail. The brand doesn't matter. You should always keep backups of important data.
Seagate is as reliable as every other hard drive manufacturer.
There's a reason why products are warranteed for at least a year and that is to compenstate for infant mortalities (products that have a manufacturing defect not caught during quality control). Because nature is chaotic, no two objects are exactly alike. Warrantees compensate for that.