• Never ever use Seagate hard drives
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I've always favored Western Digital. They're more expensive but I've never had one fail on me ever.
I've never had a hard disk fail, but the only one that has come close is a Seagate 7200.11 external 1.5TB disk with hundreds of bad sectors and which has failed to spin up without several attempts on a number of occasions. I only use it for rare backup purposes, so it has survived for a couple of years or so despite being from the batch of 1.5TB disks that are guaranteed to fail. Not all Seagate disks are shit, but the > 1TB ones from a few years ago have a vastly higher failure rate than any other disk from both what I've read and personal experience. It seems Seagate have also silently acknowledged the problem, as last time I checked online, the warranty was 5 years rather than the 2ish from when I bought it.
my samsung has been running strong for 9 years :p
My 500gb Seagate died too :( After 6 months...
[QUOTE=dj0wns;27901090]my samsung has been running strong for 9 years :p[/QUOTE] This. I've got an 8 year old Samsung 80GB IDE disk that still works and is one of the quietest disks I've come across.
Seagate drives are bad, eh? You mean Seagates like the ones that have been spinning happily in two of my systems for well over 2 years (for the 500GB drives) and 6 years (80GB)? Granted I had a 250GB drive start acting funny but HOLY FUCK you can't mean to tell me that mechanical devices eventually fail or have a few less-than-perfect units come off the line this is terrible! D:
[QUOTE=pro ruby dev;27891055]I did some research, and it appears that the model I have is affected by the firmware bug that kills the drive after a certain number of boots. I'll have to send it in to Seagate to get it fixed, but all my data should still be there! Although, never again will I buy a Seagate drive. I'm going to get a Samsung 1TB tomorrow.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/914855-Hard-Drive-Died-now-what]Oh hey that's what happened to me![/url] You event posted in that thread.
Well I hope that teaches you a lesson OP. Backups are your friends. Not all Seagate HDDs are bad, I've had this laptop for 6 years now and guess what? It has a Seagate HDD.
Maybe I've just gotten lucky with my 250GB 7200.8 and my 320GB 7200.10 drives. They've been rock solid since 2005. :D
My seagate hard drive is going slow lately. Must be dieing.
I have a WD Caviar 250GB and it's been ripping through constant usage ever day for 4 years. That's reliable.
I bought one hard drive and it failed I hate the company that made it.
I have a 500Gb Seagate drive that messed up a while back. The partition table and MFT got messed up when 4 sectors went bad. It went bad within an hour (the first sign was Windows locking up, then the drive didn't appear at all in windows after I rebooted.) I managed to get my important things off (pictures, things I have made for games that are impossible to replace, etc) but lost a large amount of my games. After that I tried to fix it in Parted Magic, but It wouldn't mount or anything. Eventually I did something to make it work, but it required formatting. After I formatted it, it worked fine in windows. I used Recuva and was able to recover all of my files, but since the MFT was destroyed, so wasn't all of the folders. Recuva made one huge folder with nearly 1 million files, so I said fuck it and deleted it all. I had the drive for a little over a year. I don't think I will buy SeaGate products for a while.
That really sucks, OP. It's strange that a popular company like Seagate would make such an unreliable hard drive. All 5 of my hard drives are Seagate. 3 of them I've bought within the last 4 years, and the other 2 are from 2003 and '98. [editline]6th February 2011[/editline] And they all work fine.
This thread inspired me to backup my stuff
My friend that I built a computer for has a 1TB 7200.12 if I remember correctly Should I be worried about anything?
I've had Seagate drives for the last 4 years, I've bought around 9 of the 500GB hard drives, a couple 1TB drives and a 25GB. All of them still work great except that one of them died within a day which was promptly replaced by Seagate and works fine. Except now with my 2 or so year old 1TB drive and a couple of the 500GB's being in my personal computer I've noticed that coming out of sleep mode is nearly impossible due to it being slower to get to a working state than just booting it. Occasionally all my programs will lockup after booting and I will have to restart manually. I really hope to god that this isn't that hard drive.
Bought my Seagate 160 GB disk back in 2003 or so (my first hard disk I bought of my own money), has been the main OS disk in every system from then on. And today I'm finally going to replace it with a WD as it finally is making noises it shouldn't make. Oh the days when 160 GB seemed impossible to fill, while I now don't have enough space with 2TB. Edit: And having GB of logs filled with: [code]eb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.137963] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.137963] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.144352] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.144357] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:44 debian kernel: [2214598.166473] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:46 debian kernel: [2214600.404288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.811040] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.811044] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.811040] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.811044] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.812845] hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Feb 6 07:46:48 debian kernel: [2214602.812854] ide: failed opcode was: unknown[/code] Is also fucking annoying (gives a drive not ready pop-up to).
I remember when 5 GB seemed impossible to fill
I remember when 10mb was a gigantic black hole. (from reading about it in wikipedia, too young to witness the golden days of computing :saddowns:)
I have a 500GB Hitachi and a 300GB Western Digital. Had them for over 2 years. Both work fine :buddy:
Main Drive in my laptop is a 250GB Hitachi. Same Brand and type in my netbook but in a 150GB version. I have a Seagate 1.5TB drive sitting right next to me as a large file transfer drive and these guys have a bad history with me. First one was a 1TB of the same series and that was DOA with a dreaded click. Got another same deal. This 1.5TB is one I got with store credit.
I have a 1TB Seagate drive that has been making that classic clicky noise of death for over a year now and some times it will occasionally work hasn't for a couple weeks though
Update: Went and bought a Samsung 1TB today. I also rang up Seagate and spoke to them, but apparently my drive wasn't affected by the firmware issue (despite being the same model and manufactured around the same time.) Oh well, at least I have all my important code backed up on GitHub.
It helps to keep the harddrive's firmware up to date you guys, everyone forgets about firmware updates.
i've used maxtor almost exclusively for about 11 years i've never had one fail on me yet
[QUOTE=thisispain;27910541]i've used maxtor almost exclusively for about 11 years i've never had one fail on me yet[/QUOTE] Except Maxtor drives are quite ancient, since they were bought by Seagate in 2006.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;27910760]Except Maxtor drives are quite ancient, since they were bought by Seagate in 2006.[/QUOTE] ancient? i just bought a 500GB maxtor drive
They probably just continue the name.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;27910760]Except Maxtor drives are quite ancient, since they were bought by Seagate in 2006.[/QUOTE] And in buying Maxtor, they inherited their poor as shit quality control. (See: DiamondMax drives and their infamous "music" on YouTube)
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