In my old rig, which I used for 4+ years, I had two 200gb seagates in raid 0, and never had a problem. I also currently have a 7200.11 500gb in my current rig, and I have been running fine since june 2008. I have been using seagate HDs for awhile now and have never had a problem. Although I have to admit, this news makes me nervous.
I've run Seagate and WDs for years without failure too, but I just specced up an HTPC for my boss with 2 x 7200.11 1.5TBs, knowing my luck they would both fail at the same time making me look like a dick for recommending them. Think I stay safe and go for 2 Caviar 1Tb instead, can't find any reports of high failures.
I've only lost one drive too, and that was a 6GB Maxtor HDD which was obviously ages ago. Considering the number of HDD's I've had over the years, I guess I can call myself lucky as well. And with that said I'm sure that atleast two of my drives are dead when I boot up my PC tomorrow!
My problem is that I don't have anywhere to back up my data. I'm pretty much full (around 1TB free) so I'll just have to live with it. I've backed up my music and my photos, so that's safe atleast. I can't wait until Bluray discs get cheaper. I think that would be a nice medium to back up on.
LOL That's kind of my problem all the time, too. When I go out and buy a new HDD for backup purposes, it always gets filled up with other "important" stuff too, so that I don't really have a backup drive anymore... I'm waiting for Blu-Ray discs to get cheaper for the exact same reason for quite a while now already.
I'm running 2 older Barracudas, no probs here, 2x 500GB. But good to know that I have to avoid some of the newer models. I backup my important files to external HDD's, if they run out of space I just buy a new one.
Maxtor ive gone through 6 of them all 80GB models always the same problem with the read head going on them
Problem I had with my 500GB 7200.11 I was recently a victim to one of the Seage HDDs crashing on me on a RAID0 setup and essentially I ended up losing all data. They used to be really good drives but I believe recently they have started to cut corners and laxed a little with their QC which allowed all the faulty drives to leak out in the market. Their CSR was helpful in getting me a replacement without so much hassle, but the damage of losing data was very painful. I am hoping the new drive will keep up from failing again but that concern is always there especially now. Whenever I have a computer crash -- from playing with OC too much -- the HDD will be backing pagefile or something and I can notice the HDD LED acting crazy. There is definitely a lot of HDD activity going on in the background that I do not feel comfortable with. Seagate's problems don't end just with the quality. They have been suffering financially especially with the latest economic conditions. I recently read that they have let go their CEO and COO. Those are some seriously tough times for them.
Yes I know what you mean. I was just meaning if somone has say 3 HDD's, a Hitachi/WD/Seagate and the Seagate dies they will be more likely to stay clear of that manufacturer for there next drive. Oh and yes Maxtor. I actually had a 80gb in an external enclosure and on of the capacitors? burst up into flames. Burnt right through my external enclosure. Will never buy from tham again. I wonder if this is affecting the Seagate external drives as im guessing they use the same disks.
I had that too, the only drive I have known to fail was at work, it was in an HP Brio, 3 days outside of the 3 year warranty and one of my users calls me to say her computer went "pop" when she started it up. Sure enough a capacitor had exploded, a nice big singe covering the neighbouring capacitors etc and the smell of smoke. Can't remember now who the HDD manufacturer was but it certainly put me off HP for life.
I've had virtually all my Raptors fail, which I'm un-impressed with. About 3 74GB ones and 2 of the 150GB ones.
Trust my luck - I just bought a new 500GB 7200.11 Seagate Barracuda 2 days ago.... I just noticed I have newer firmware though so should be ok I hope..
What firmware you got? I got the earlier SD15 (I think). Can we do the firmware upgrade and if so what kind of stability can we see out of it?
I have SD15 firmware and my drive is about a year old now I think. No problems yet...wonder if it's not a broken one?
2 months ago my 500 gb sata 2 32 mb buffer hdd died (lost all pictures homemade movies and stuff ) i'm still waiting for a replacement from my computer store even tho the time alowed for them to repalce /fix stated in the contract expired last week and they refussed to give my money back :cussing: they refusse to replace my seagate hdd with a samsung or wd one saying that the papers were already made to ship me a new seagate one witch will probably die like the first one c: the company responable is www.dc-shop.ro so let this be a warning to any Romanian guys on guru3d
