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| Thread ID: 110053 | 2010-06-01 21:06:00 | Are Seagates junk? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1105848 | 2010-06-01 21:06:00 | I bought 3 Seagate SATA-2 500MBs (internals). 1 fell over within a few months, I got a new replacement and it looked physically different, that was sitting on the shelf for about a year and within 4 weeks it fell over. Firmware is updated due to the first failure. I downloaded the utility and checked all 3 drives and updated them accordingly. I did read people were having issues with them but I thought that was just a rant - anything can have failures but now I am thinking it is a bit weird. I also thought Seagate's 3 or 5yr warranty must be good. I've had a Quantum 50MB lasted 5+ years till I dropped it :p A Maxtor it worked for almost 10 years then I gave it to eDay while still working. A Hitachi in a laptop bought 1yr used fell over but it had a international warranty, got a new one in 2002 and I am still using that. Seagate to me happens to fall over in a matter of months or weeks... I'm beginning to do backups every night now between my 2 internal HDDs. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1105849 | 2010-06-01 22:41:00 | It must just be you :D just kidding. I think all HDD manufacturers go through bad patches & release bad drives from time to time. I've had plenty of Seagate drives that have taken a fair bit of use and are still going strong. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1105850 | 2010-06-01 23:17:00 | Since the SD15 firmware I've lost faith in Seagate ... | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 1105851 | 2010-06-01 23:56:00 | If only Google would release the name of the manufacturer which had the most failures in their huge hard drive test we would know!! I'm running quite a few Seagates and they have all seemed fine so far |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1105852 | 2010-06-02 00:03:00 | They had a bad bunch of firmware, its fixed now, I still think they fail less than WD. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1105853 | 2010-06-02 00:40:00 | Just had to pull out one of a clients SAS 15k RPM Seagate drives yesterday as it has died. Luckily they have a RAID setup so can continue to work while HP send a replacement. I haven't sold any Seagates since the firmware problem so don't know what they are like now. Have only been selling WD and have not had one come back yet, touch wood. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1105854 | 2010-06-02 00:46:00 | I have had about the same failure rate from Seagate and WD | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1105855 | 2010-06-02 04:59:00 | Never had any isues with Seagates - the same can't be said for Hitachi drives however! | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1105856 | 2010-06-02 05:47:00 | Don't get me started with seagate. Had 5 drives fail. All within just over a year. Only use western digital now, but even they had a rough patch (I missed out on it luckily). Seagate sit right down there with Gigabyte with me And for the record I still have an 80gig WD in my media center that I purchased for my very first AMD64 XP build back in.....2003. It's slow as hell but still 100% in good nick |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1105857 | 2010-06-02 05:50:00 | The only thing you can be sure of is if you've got an IBM Deskstar it will break | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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