Trapped In America

There’s your problem. All that grass makes for a terrible child sacrifice during their pedo parties. The blood soaks right in and you never get a chance to collect it for the Sangria mix.

Sounds like you got very-unlucky with WD then just regular-lucky with Seagate :P

A good way to think of “quality” in terms of how the manufacturing industry uses the term: Even if Seagate has a 2-4% failure rate (which they do, see my other comment) that still means 96-98% of their drives are just fine (and you probably fall in this group, which is great). But in terms of modern manufacturing, your failure/return rate should be ~1% or less. Otherwise you’re just throwing money away, not only on the RMAs, but also all the wasted time/money on manufacturing/disposing of all of those failed drives. So it’s a potential 2-3 fold loss (so 4-12% in their case) in revenue. That’s not a very good business strategy.

Not to mention you’re dealing with millions of drives and customers. Which leads to hundreds/thousands of people voicing their frustrations publicly and you developing a bad reputation. Again, they’ve done it to themselves.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/ (they also do quarterly reports, but I prefer annual reports for the larger sample sizes)

Scroll down to the chart for failure rates by manufacture. Seagate literally has 2-3 times the failure rate of all other manufactures. Maybe 1-2 quarters aren’t, but even then they’re still noticeably higher.

Edit: Just noticed HGST did horribly last year and Toshiba is actually looking pretty damn good now. Might have to give them a try sometime.

I do wonder if they will ever be able to beat their $14.9 B annual record.

I doubt it. Everybody knows their drives are less reliable, even compared to Toshiba sometimes. So anyone with any sense is buying WD or HGST (they’re the same company now, I know).

They’ve let themselves become known as the Wish.com of storage. Should have stopped skimping on quality 15-20 years ago… then maybe…

Edit: HGST is apparently trash now and Toshiba is really good.

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

If you’re wanting one just for an exhaust fan, they’re fairly cheap ($42 from Grainger). The big-boy humidistats for AC units that use variable speed motors to run in a low speed, humidity control mode can be bit pricey though, yeah. But they’re not super common any ways.

I mean, most of the automation was already there, they’ve just marketed their IoT crap to death so now everyone thinks it’s new because it’s on an app. Honeywell, etc. have all made comfort thermostats (I think that’s the right term) that could be programmed with an upper and lower temperatures, so you don’t even need to switch between cooling/heating. Some even allowed temperature ranges so you’re not just running in basic-bitch temp vs. CPH mode. You could also schedule temperatures based on work, school, etc. Basically everything people are using an app to do now, sometimes better, hanging on the wall in your hallway… ignored… for years.

Cookers, etc. can all be put on $5 timers so they’re going when you get home.

I don’t know, it all just feels lazy to me. Like something straight out of WALL-E. Old man rant over, I’ll stop yelling at the clouds now lol

Or, hear me out, we just use our arms and legs to get off the sofa and flip the switch on the wall? Also, the AC thermostat should have some arrows on it, those let you turn the temperature up and down.

Crazy, I know, but it’s true! Your AC, lights, microwave and fridge don’t need fucking WiFi and internet.