I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
No fucking way. Do you have any more diagnostic telemetry about that you’d be willing to share?
Edit: I don’t think it’s impossible for these drives to fail (Their failure rate isn’t zero), so I’m not accusing you of anything. It’s just that their failure rate is so low, I’ve never heard of it before. But any information you’re willing to share I’d be happy to hear.
Havent pulled it yet since I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll update you when I pull it and check it out. I’ve had tons of drives die over the years but this one hits the hardest since prices have skyrocketed. Hopefully the other 5 drives hold the line for longer
Oh, so it was pretty recent? Sorry to hear that buddy.
What kind of drives are you buying? What’s your use case?
See, I buy those EXOS drives because they are sea gates top of the line enterprise class server grade hard drives. They’re expensive, but they’ve always been very much worth it.
Are you getting those, too? Or are you getting different brands in different models?
Most people would only ever need consumer grade drives. But if you’re running a server and you expected it to last a long time with a high level of reliability, you gotta go with the server grade drives.
The thing I didn’t realize is that EXOS drives are cheaper than other enterprise grade drives. They didn’t used to be. historically, they’ve always been the most expensive.
Honestly they were the cheapest for the size at the time i have 6 18tb seagate exos. Bought 4 in 2023 and 2 more a year later. Surprisingly there still the cheapest for the size even though they’ve doubled in price.
Jellyfin server for friends and family mainly.
But I’ve been working on getting voice and video matrix server up and running recently because fuck discord. Also have a personal email server on a domain and a password manager
I also host the game of the month servers for the boys. Pal world 7dtd valheim etc. Its nice having the option to self host instead of being reliant on enshittified propriety corporate platforms.
Really surprised that you had one of those drives fail on you. It’s extremely rare. I’d still stick with them if I were you, even if I had one fail once.
Are they original / how did you buy them / how much did they cost? I tried buying Seagate 3 times the last 4 years and every time it was shoddily repackaged with fake stickers and such
Honestly? Right off of Amazon. Pricing depends on the capacity, and I’m sure it’s gone up. But the pricing is always been very good, at or just beneath market rates. Seagate has an official Amazon store, so you’ll often see stuff on sale there. Including certified, pre-used drives, although I’ve never taken a plunge on that option.
I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
Had an 18tb Seagate exos shit the bed on my jellyfin server a couple weeks ago. It had about 3 years usage at least
No fucking way. Do you have any more diagnostic telemetry about that you’d be willing to share?
Edit: I don’t think it’s impossible for these drives to fail (Their failure rate isn’t zero), so I’m not accusing you of anything. It’s just that their failure rate is so low, I’ve never heard of it before. But any information you’re willing to share I’d be happy to hear.
Havent pulled it yet since I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll update you when I pull it and check it out. I’ve had tons of drives die over the years but this one hits the hardest since prices have skyrocketed. Hopefully the other 5 drives hold the line for longer
Oh, so it was pretty recent? Sorry to hear that buddy.
What kind of drives are you buying? What’s your use case?
See, I buy those EXOS drives because they are sea gates top of the line enterprise class server grade hard drives. They’re expensive, but they’ve always been very much worth it.
Are you getting those, too? Or are you getting different brands in different models?
Most folks would buy consumer-grade Seagate drives. I am having a hunch that those would not be remotely comparable to EXOS drives.
Most people would only ever need consumer grade drives. But if you’re running a server and you expected it to last a long time with a high level of reliability, you gotta go with the server grade drives.
The thing I didn’t realize is that EXOS drives are cheaper than other enterprise grade drives. They didn’t used to be. historically, they’ve always been the most expensive.
Honestly they were the cheapest for the size at the time i have 6 18tb seagate exos. Bought 4 in 2023 and 2 more a year later. Surprisingly there still the cheapest for the size even though they’ve doubled in price.
Jellyfin server for friends and family mainly. But I’ve been working on getting voice and video matrix server up and running recently because fuck discord. Also have a personal email server on a domain and a password manager
I also host the game of the month servers for the boys. Pal world 7dtd valheim etc. Its nice having the option to self host instead of being reliant on enshittified propriety corporate platforms.
Really surprised that you had one of those drives fail on you. It’s extremely rare. I’d still stick with them if I were you, even if I had one fail once.
Are they original / how did you buy them / how much did they cost? I tried buying Seagate 3 times the last 4 years and every time it was shoddily repackaged with fake stickers and such
Honestly? Right off of Amazon. Pricing depends on the capacity, and I’m sure it’s gone up. But the pricing is always been very good, at or just beneath market rates. Seagate has an official Amazon store, so you’ll often see stuff on sale there. Including certified, pre-used drives, although I’ve never taken a plunge on that option.