Tons of WD raptors DOA here, but none have failed on me (36, 74 or 150GB)
once they spun up.
The only consistency in the hardware industry is inconsistency.
From: Sam Franc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Seagate drive died
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:30:13 -0700
We sure have varying experiences with HDs.
I have had a lot of WDs fail on me too, along with Maxtors.
Fate does not seem to be kind.
Sam
Scott Sipe wrote:
Well, my seagate 7200.10 320gb perpendicular drive died after 7-8 months
of usage.
No warning signs, no temperature issues (surrounded by fans), not moved
around, it just happened when rebooting after installing some windows
updates. Drive emits what sounds like a beeping noise. Fortunately most of
the important stuff is backed up, but still lost a good bit.
Very disappointed--haven't had a drive fail that fast in a long time.
Googling around it seems like a lot of people are running into dying
seagates that make a beeping like noise.
Big thumbs down and back to WD for me..
Scott
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