On 15 Jan 2006, at 17:12, Aaron Fothergill wrote:
I'm still seeing more Deathstars fail than other types of drive at
the moment and usually in very terminal ways. When you've got a
device storing huge amounts of your data, it's going to take more
than a couple of years of reassurances from the manufacturer that
their 10%+ failure rate was just a glitch.
That is poor. Noted for reference.
From what I've seen, the only range that ever had such a significant
failure rate was the 75GXP, and it's been ages since they sold one of
those. Every manufacturer has been trhough a bad model or two (WD
went through a couple when drives were at about 6-10GB) and I killed
a Samsung 10GB drive (dunno why I bought that one!) within 2 days of
owning it! (Never bought one since, but my laptop came with an 80GB
5400 samsung drive, and it's quiet and fast. Maybe I'll stop being
paranoid one day, or maybe I'll just stick my spare Travelstar E7K in
it)
When actually buying hard drives, I do tend to go for the Seagate
ones.
Yup, same here. Never had a Seagate go down on me in frontline
service (touches lots more wooden things).
Seagate had a spell with U4/U5 series drives going dead on them,
way back in 2000 or so I think, many were in iMac G3s (not totally
the drives fault I suspect). Even in that instance it was only a
couple of batches of 20 and 40GB disks, unfortunately a part of
them seems to have been shipped to Apple. Only time I've heard of
Seagate drives popping their clogs en-mass. Only failures I've had
of Seagates have been from old age and under/over use.
My experience of Seagate drives has been that they're slow and hot
running (though quiet if that suits you). I think Hitachi have
learned a lot about HD design recently, they keep coming out with
really fast 7200RPM drives. I've had some bad experience with Maxtor,
but that said, I have a 20GB drive from them that's been running 24x7
for about 7 years! (along side a couple of IBMs even older and a
Seagate 17GB drive I've sworn was on the way out due to the horrible
clunking noises it's been making for the whole 3 years since I
thought to put it in my XBox! lol).
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