Ironically perhaps, the main disk in my system is still a circa 2004
firstgen 36gb raptor :)
For those of you that deal with a large volume of disks, what seems
to be the most reliable right now? I've had good luck with WDs, but
with limited experience. Of computers I've built in the past five
years (probably only ~10-15 tops) I don't think I've had any disks
dying (at least after being put into service) before this seagate.
The biggest problem has been powersupplies by FAR..
someone should make a raid-in-a-disk -- one 3.5 inch chassis, two
totally separate, self-contained disks internally, with a raid
controller etc.
Scott
On May 12, 2007, at 10:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WD36 is about the highest fail rate drive I know of. About 1 in 4
dies in the first few days for us. :(
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:10:50
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Seagate drive died
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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