Not sure if this was true at the time of writing, but it is now. MTTF and LUCC for the entire X300 lineup is specified as 600,000 hours and 300,000 respectively.

Not sure if this was true at the time of writing, but it is now. MTTF and LUCC for the entire X300 lineup is specified as 600,000 hours and 300,000 respectively.

You can always hire a liberal “arts” student to do that for chai latte and soy milk payments.

Yes, i tested them. no, they are not changing the game for seagate in my evaluations. they can serve as WORM drives mostly, as performance degrades dramatically after the first write to a sector. from samsung STSHX-D501TDB usb3 externals (3-year warranty instead of the 1-year warranty for seagate expansion STEB5000100 usb3 containing same internal model) i pulled 5 seagate ST5000DM000. individual surface testing with sequential 1 GB files fill and read gave mid 40 MB/s speeds. once put together in a raid5 array on a WS2012R2 dual opteron 6272 system used for video compression, on the first write pass to the array to fill it with video files for compression the speeds were in the low 20’s (MB/s). after a few system crashes, the resynch process runs at between 5 and 10 MB/s, taking approximately 3 weeks. the other raid5 arrays i built with HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5″ 4TB drives or pullouts from Hitachi Touro 4 TB usb3 externals resynch in ~ 36 hours. that will have been my last test and use of seagate products ever unless HGST steps down to the low quality i also got from wd…

if you look online the 3Tb external has notorious failure rate. I am not knocking Toshiba as a brand per say , they have made many great things. But hey , even Ford made the Edsel ya know. I babied that external drive , I was able to retrieve some items with a recovery program I eventually found online and also managed to somehow make usable just about 1Tb of storage space on it. Why the other 2Tb is still a brick I don’t know. I am a little tech savvy but I wont claim to be a wiz by any means , I basically learn by having to fix stuff myself when things go wrong , I’m cheap what can I say lol. But this particular model is full of issues. It happens to every company in just about every industry eventually. I have no doubt that had I purchased a different Toshiba model I may have had a great experience. But man that was a hard lesson in never trusting one drive with your data , back up , back up back up is my new motto now with anything.