I need the Seagate FireCuda 120 SSD 1TB because... I ran out of the previous ones.
My biggest HDD died this summer – 2TB Seagate, after running it daily for 7 years. I tried to get it back running, but the weak sectors were spreading, it had enough. I have about 6-8 old Seagate drives (80 to 160 GB, one 400 GB and these still work even after 10-14 years, but alas, they are mostly IDE, so out of that collection, only one two 80GBs and one 160GB are usable).
So I went and bought a 6TB (Seagate!) external drive now, since it was on sale, but it mostly just filled with backups and cold data. I quickly found that it isn't really possible to do my sort of work on a desktop PC just with 500 GB internal storage – which is all my otherwise newest internal drive has - that's a Samsung 500GB from 2008 btw. Which isn't Seagate but incidentally, Samsung's HDD business was bought by Seagate, so it is a honorary one! I used to use a very nice (quiet, I love 5400/5900rpm) 1TB Barracuda LP too, but that one sadly also malfuncioned after several years of service. That one is a nice guy though - it only creates bad sectors on writes, but once it writes successfully, the data stay there. Checked after some 5 years recently and it was all readable.
See where I am getting? Look how loyal I was to the brand :shameless nudge&wink:
That is, until I had to start saving up money for mortgage. That is always the end of PC parts buying for you
P.S. I never registered until now but long time TPU reader.