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| Thread ID: 108267 | 2010-03-21 07:52:00 | Quality of HDDs | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 868968 | 2010-03-22 06:20:00 | Someone always makes a product better than anyone else, and someone always makes a product worse than everyone else. Google's study seemed to prove the latter, certainly. While it's true that everyone screws up once in a while, I doubt you can say that all hard drives are equal. SOMEONE has to come last, even if it's just by bad luck. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 868969 | 2010-03-22 06:43:00 | the freeagents do get very hot I have two of them sitting on my desktop - and no, they aren't hot.... Really barely warm. :) |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 868970 | 2010-03-22 21:37:00 | It's funny how different people can have vastly different experiences with manufacturers. Theres a few people saying they've had seagates die at fairly high rates, yet we've encountered WDs failing more than seagate drives - though I agree that for both, the first 8 - 12 months seems to be the "run in" period, if it survives that no worries, they seem to just keep going. Of 12 WD drives we got around September last year, 3 have failed already. I suspect that must have been a shoddy batch or something, because thats easily the highest failure rate we've ever encountered with WD or Seagate. Similarly, there are two machines next to me at the moment, one with an 11 year old Seagate drive in it, and the other a 9 year old WD, and both are going solid. You really can't just presume though that you can buy a good brand and forget about backing up. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 868971 | 2010-03-22 22:12:00 | 12 drives isn't many. Buy 10,000 each of Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and then see what the failure rates are. Could be the 12 you bought were dropped by the Courier. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 868972 | 2010-03-22 22:25:00 | 12 drives isn't many. That's pretty much my point, a lot of people "go off" a brand because of a very small sample having problems, which can happen to any brand for any number of reasons. I haven't stopped using WD drives as a result of these issues, because I know that it's far too few a number to really be an indicator of the brands overall reliability. But I've seen a lot of people who have a single drive fail and seem to assume that means that the manufacturer is terrible. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 868973 | 2010-03-23 04:48:00 | My Seagate just died after 15months | Craig Mellor (13762) | ||
| 868974 | 2010-03-24 05:28:00 | Maxtor drives have had a poor rep, and if memory serves, Seagate bought out Maxtor, so drives coming out now with the Seagate label might have come from the Maxtor production line. Anyway, external drives, by their very nature are more prone to damage - knocks, drops, spills. Ideally, plug it in as little as possible, keeping it unplugged as much as possible. Treat it like it's brittle and fragile... as you would an egg, and maybe it'll serve you well. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 868975 | 2010-03-24 08:27:00 | Seagate sold (and maybe still do) Maxtor external drives However all internal drives look nothing like Maxtors. Personally, I've got several Maxtors and only one has actually died. In my own personal use I've had more Seagate fail than Maxtor, but that is only out of a handful, so I doubt accurate. |
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