Same here. In the last 20 years, this drive is the only one that ever failed on me. (I had 2 of those actually, both failed around the same time.)

In my experience Seagate in general has always been a regretful choice. I will only ever buy WD for the foreseeable future.

That drive is so bad it’s got its own Wikipedia article, like the Sinking of the Titanic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

Apparently the failures are due to two disimilar, incompatible materials used in the parking ramp.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/08/apple-time-capsule-failure-hard-drive/

i have that drive, hes been chugging along for years WOOT I GOT LUCKY!!!

My experience with Seagate is:

1. 2008 - 2022 (still works, but retired and makes noises)
2. 2013 - 2015
3. 2015 - still working
4. 2016 -2018
5. 2023 - still working

Either they are super hard drive 9000 or die within a few years.

I use one for Plex and it has 4 years and 9 months up time

I had one of those, and it screamed until it died. I think I have an OLD video of it.

Whew… I have 6 of the ST3000DM008-2DM166 in a RAID array. And to be honest, they were only so-so, so I’m not actually relieved that mine are newer/different. I had a couple of failures over the years. I started with 5.

1. gone
2. gone
3. Still ok, >36k hours
4. gone
5. Now a hot spare, >36k hours, 8 Reallocated Sectors

1 out of 5 is still in mainline operation, one is my hot spare.

3 out of 5 failed and got sent back to Seagate for a refurb

1 of my replacement drives had an “unexpected sense” that I guess corrected itself after a rebuild.

4.1 years of operation

I’m definitely not thrilled.

I am using the 8TB model in my QNAP. So, far no issues. The drives were previously used in a QNAP NAS per the seller.

Can confirm. I had three. All failed within a year.

I am always so blown away by the ridiculous failure rate of the 3TB Barracuda when Seagate also made the 3TB Constellation I’ve been using without a hitch for so many years.

Never owned a Barracuda because the Backblaze report on their failure rates that showed the Barracuda as the worst of the worst came out before I started shopping for “big” hard drives.

Jeejus key riced as an absolute noob few years back was so happy to be able to shuch these and then tragedy struck.

They had similar 4tb drives.

I lost 2 of them. Both died. Plink plink plink dead.

It was lightly used

I’ve had 3 or 4 fail

Got loads of 2TB models and they’ve been solid for ever. If I recall there were issues with this and maybe also the 5TB

I’ve lost about 15 of these due to drive failures over the last 8 or so years… Mostly just started the death click click, click click. These models of 3tb were reported as crap.