[QUOTE=Hexxeh;27891458]In fairness, that bug was pretty heavily publicised back when it was discovered...
At least you'll get your data back, though.[/QUOTE]
That is true. It was very widely publicised and Seagate released a fix pretty quickly.
I bought a Seagate HDD recently and apparently, it's the same one that used to die quickly, but it has been updated with the newest firmware. (Physically it's the same HDD, just firmware upgraded by Seagate)
I have a feeling they just made the drives "green".
Isn't it just the Seagate Barracuda 700.11?
I believe I have a a seagate hdd lying around here, I think it was like 40 or 60gb, I used it for a couple years I think and it never failed on me
I've had two Seagate HDDs
Both failed.
Could I fix it?
No they're fucked.
Laptop has 2 seagate hard drives.
1 was doa, 1 was dying.
Now every HDD I own is samsung, works.
I have a Seagate HDD :byodood:
[QUOTE=Fresh?;27892992]I have a Seagate HDD :byodood:[/QUOTE]
You sir are fucked.
[QUOTE=Encryption;27893248]You sir are fucked.[/QUOTE]
Good to know. I'm putting it on eBay now.
My previous PC, bought back in 2002, has still working 40GB Seagate HDD.
[QUOTE=Fresh?;27892992]I have a Seagate HDD :byodood:[/QUOTE]
I have two 1.5TB seagates in RAID 0. I think I'm double, if not triple fucked. Thank god for backups.
:byodood:
F3 Spinpoint master race reporting in :smug:
Although I do have a 160GB drive from 6 years ago that still works, but the data transfer times are awful, and it's noise as FUCK
I have two Seagates and a Maxtor in my PC. My dad swears by them and his PC has been running off Seagate drives for years without a hitch.
That being said, my most recent Seagate drive I had to replace twice. First one died within a week of installation, replacement was DOA and the replacement replacement has been working fine for around a year now.
Got 2 Seagate drives in my laptop and we got tones of them at work.
Only seen one defect driver so fare.
I have to say that my old Maxtor was worse.
Got a 300GB, died after 2 months.
Replaced, died after 4 months.
Replaced, died within weeks.
I threw it on the shelve, and after 1½ year, plugged it in. Surprisingly worked, for half a year when it started randomly disconnecting when transfering files.
I'm pretty sure some models are unreliable. I heard the Greens were really bad.
I've been using my 500 GB 7200 RPM Seagate since mid-2009, yet I've had absolutely no problems. YMMV I guess.
I would be willing to believe the whole "Seagates above this storage size are time bombs" if someone could find statistics from someone who sells them or Seagate itself, though if random people here and there pop up and say "My Seagate died!", that's not fully useful. If say, Dell makes 100,000 PCs with Seagates and they all work fine, the owners won't go onto forums saying "My Seagate hard drives work!". If something goes wrong, the person would probably be pissed and want to let people know. If it works fine, they probably won't let anyone know.
[QUOTE=Dr Nick;27892332]I have a feeling they just made the drives "green".[/QUOTE]
I hate the current "go green" trend also. This increases access-times, because most manufactures just go from 7200 rpm to 5200 rpm in most cases. And access time is everything on drives. Who cares if the drive can continuously read 130 MB/s if the access time is greater than 20 ms. Just copy much small files and the access time reduces the read-speed to a few 100 KB/s.
Anyway on topic: My impression is that most HDD failures are caused by improper handling (temperature, bad montage, physical shocks), bad luck or both of it.
This is why I only buy Spinpoint F3s and WD HDDs. All other brands' drives are pieces of shit.
[QUOTE=Fresh?;27893335]Good to know. I'm putting it on eBay now.[/QUOTE]
This is exactly why I never buy used hard drives.
Generic "oh no one of my parts failed from "x" don't ever buy from them!" thread.
You had an entire day to backup your shit and you didn't do it, your fault.
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[QUOTE=Marnetmar;27896297]This is why I only buy Spinpoint F3s and WD HDDs. All other brands' drives are pieces of shit.[/QUOTE]
Dumb logic.
You would have gotten castrated for trying to tell someone to get a Samsung HDD a year ago, when WD and SeaGate were the "best".
I have not trusted Seagate drives for long term use since their 1gb slimlines. Their ancient 20mb ST-225's though are near-bulletproof. I have still yet to see one die from wear.
Hitachi's 1tb SATA drives seem pretty okay *knocks on wood*. Running two right now and they have been running almost non-stop for a year and have survived a 300km trip on their sides in my car when I moved.
[QUOTE=MIPS;27899005]
Hitachi's 1tb SATA drives seem pretty okay [/QUOTE]
This is surprisingly true, despite of all the ancient "Deathstar" jokes
herp derp I had one drive go bad the whole lot must be shit
I have one Seagate 1TB hard drive that's significantly faster and better than my old Seagate 320GB hard drive that's still alive and kicking.
I have 2 seagate drives (One 1tb drive and one 750GB drive) and they both work fine. Had them both for about a year now.
wow really
you had one bad experience with a seagate drive and now you act like it's the fucking devil and will eat your soul if you buy one
it's your fault for not doing research into what you were actually buying, or else you would have known that seagate drives larger than 1TB die a lot, as your friend said.
I'm sorry you had bad luck OP, but I ONLY trust Seagate with my drives.
[QUOTE=.:GHOST:.;27900795]I'm sorry you had bad luck OP, but I ONLY trust Seagate with my drives.[/QUOTE]
this is just as dumb
there's nothing wrong with seagate but there are definitely better choices
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