Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166

mdgm wrote:
NAS users buy lots of disks so can have lots of disks (spending hundreds of dollars to purchase these) and over time need to purchase new disks to expand arrays etc. SeaGate needs to do something about this or I'm sure some users will be more likely to consider other drive brands when it comes to their next drive purchase.

I am one of those. Seagate had been my preferred brand for almost 30 years. However, the issues with the new series of drives had me begin to doubt them. Last year when I started to expand the volumes in my two NAS units using 3TB drives, I went with Hitachi. However, my second preferred drive over the past decades has stepped up to the plate with a new series of drives. When WD released their red label drives aimed an NAS uses, it seems to have hit a home run. Right now they are hard to find and expensive, but I think once they ramp up to full production the prices will come down. I got my first one the other day as part of a combo package and am going to see how it does.

I have not purchased a Seagate drive in two years and have not recommended them for the last year. (As some may have noted in some of my posts). One of the saving graces that Seagate had was their standing by their drives, but this firmware issue needs to be addressed or they will definitely lose market share. The memory of users in this area is decades.