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Another seagate dead thread...

aigomorla

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Sigh... so that makes 3 drives ive lost this year, and its not over yet.
2 of them were the "NAS" drive, and 1 was a barracuda.

The NAS drives i think put about exactly 3yrs... The barracuda about 4yrs.
These were 2TB drives, they had a fan right in front of them, did not put in sleep used on FreeNAS.

Well i guess i'll finish ending up replacing my 8 drive array with WD yellow's. 3 down 5 to go.
 
In all honesty 3 to 4 years is pretty good for failgate but that definitely puts them out of warranty. There ought to be models built with higher quality components that cost a little more for us looking for longer service life but I don't know if they are capable.
 
I sympathize with the OP as its frustrating when you lose a hd regardless of who made it. If they're under warranty I'd rma them and then sell the replacements when you get them.
 
A friend of mine just had a Seagate fail... it was a 7200.7. Bought it used off of someone on this forum, maybe five (maybe more?) years ago. It had a few bad sectors when it was purchased, but they didn't really increase. It had my friend's XP install.

It lasted quite a while.
 
Seagate is really a Maxtor drive. Maxtor is the worst hard drives in the industry ever since Maxtor and Seagate hopped in bed together the Seagate drives suck cuz its really a Maxtor drive which is the worst hard drive to get. Next time be smart. Buy a Western Digital or a Sammy. thx
 
no its really sad im having a higher fail rate on these "NAS" drives then the originals.

I used to say i loved seagate, and i got really lucky with them.
But i think i lost more drives in this year alone, then i have any other year ive been building PC's.

The last time i recall losing a drive was back when Maxtor was still in business.

I take care of my drives.
I always make sure they have a fan up front so they stay cool.
I don't put sleep on the drives because i heard by making them power on and spool like that, it can kill the motor, then having them spin all 24/7.
I clean the exterior of the drives every 2 months to make sure dust doesn't deposit on them and make them overheat.

I really baby them... yet these guys are all dying right outside the RMA period.
And its not by a lot... they went off RMA like April of this year.
I think that is what pisses me off on these NAS drives. I mean they couldn't even last that extra year like the barracuda did?
 
Just built a 6700k rig for my uncle and he wanted a Seagate 8TB V5 Enterprise drive in there.
Me personally, I haven't bought a seagate drive in years. My servers are full of WD & Hitachi drives.
 
I personally have not been a fan of Seagate or Maxtor in a long time.

I've pretty much been a WD fanboi for a long time now, even if I have to pay a bit more as far as HDD's go just from personal experience.
 
Maxtor bought Seagate its one company, Maxtor makes the drives for Seagate. Thing is Maxtor and Seagate same company and their both POS drives. Try getting a WD or a Sammy ........ thx
 
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