DAMN ALL HARD DRIVES

[Alex]

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AAARGHH!H!H!!!H!!! damn you all!!!!! forsaken wretched $!%@@$#$!@ hard drive manufacturers :|

after my first WD drive died i ordered an ibm 75gxp.... no comments. couldnt rma it cuz i live in brazil.
after waiting for 6 months to save enough for another harddrive, i finally receive my WD drive this morning and it refuses to be detected straight from the box. i test my bros HD and it works... mine, NO.

this is my 4th HD ever and the 3rd to die on me

nooooooooooooooooooo

i hate this im so frustrated

 

[saltedeggman]

well....my sympathy

 

[John]

Can you buy locally and save all of the hassles?

 

[Sniper82]

I have never had a HD of any brand crash or die on me in the 6 years that I been fooling with computers. Call me lucky I guess. Maybe its because I never cared the the product I bought had a warranty or not? Maybe if you think the same way HD's will quit dieing on you .

 

[Texun]

3 out of 5 WD's died on me within 24 months.
1 Seagate was DOA in the box.
I've been lucky with Maxtors. Only 1 in 6 failed within 5 years, but it had a hard life.

 

[oldfart]

Through the years, I've had drive failures with WD, Quantum, Seagate, Maxtor, IBM. HD's are mechanical devices. All of the will eventually fail. I can't wait for the day storage is solid state and we get rid if the spinning mechanical drives.

 

[Goldfish]

Yeah, forget that whole "storage" deal, no one really needs that.

 

[oldfart]

I didn't say forget storage. I said I look forward to solid state storage instead of mechanical. Get it?

 

[Amused]

Did you remember to set the jumper as "Single" and not "Master" if it's the only drive in the channel?

 

[Alex]

<< Can you buy locally and save all of the hassles? >>



theoretically YES. in practice NO cuz of all the taxes ya pay like 100-150% more for each product, and theres no oem, only boxes.



<< Did you remember to set the jumper as "Single" and not "Master" if it's the only drive in the channel? >>



the drivers were correct... its was DOA.

 

[Amused]

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<< Did you remember to set the jumper as "Single" and not "Master" if it's the only drive in the channel? >>



the drivers were correct... its was DOA. >>



Drivers?

 

[Sniper82]

I am looking to upgrade my 20gig to a 40-60gb. Whats a good reliable brand right now or is most talked about. I am more about reliability than speed.

 

[RemyCanad]

I wonder if you could set up and internmediary. Western Union some money to a trusted person. Let them get the drive check it and then send it to you. Might save you money in the long run.

 

[kgraeme]

<< DAMN ALL HARD DRIVES >>



I'll drink to that.

I haven't really had that many drives outright fail on me. The ones that have are mostly Western Digital. But they just get crappy with age.

 

[RemyCanad]

I recomend maxtor. I have only had one of them die on me and I belive that was from lightning damage. The hole machine died.

I have had
3 wd die
5 segates die
2 quantums die
1 fugistsu die

I didnt buy any of these drives. Once I was the "tech guy" at a local video store chain. When I started they had been buying all of there computers from tigerdirect. Over the year I was there I had all of thoughs drives die. That was not just store computers but others for other things also.

But if you want reliability get a SCSI. I have never had a SCSI drive die on me.

 

[jh0sken612]

Ive been using this 5400RPM 10GB IBM drive for... .6 years

No failures here

 

[Sniper82]

So if I upgrade my drive go Maxtor?

 

[Carrot44]

What HD and what Mother board there was a issue where the newer model WD's would not be recognized by a certain chipset and the quick cure was to cut wire 1 and 2 or just wire one on the ribbon cable.

Look it up in the Forums on WD's site and good luck

I searched the WD forums and I think its the Abit boards.

 

[Strawberrymom]

thats what you get for buying WD and IBM

 

[Alex]

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<< Did you remember to set the jumper as "Single" and not "Master" if it's the only drive in the channel? >>



the drivers were correct... its was DOA. >>



Drivers? >>



argh that was dumb!! meant jumpers

 

[Alex]

<< thats what you get for buying WD and IBM >>



LOL thanks for your comforting words

argh

i gave up. im gonna buy a 5400 POS like 10gb HD and sell the comp to my dad. (his idea) then ill survive without a comp till august when i move to canada for college. there ill get like an alienware one and if ANYTHING (and i DO mean anything) goes wrong ill call the overnight tech support! lol this is a pretty n00b thing to do and i have built all my, family and friends rigs and mine is the only one to seem not to be stable... bad luck i guess but im gonna go for the warranty on my first college comp cuz i wont have much cash to replace bad parts...

 

[Sunner]

Through the years, I've had one Maxtor, one Quantum, two or three Seagates, one or two WD's, one IBM, and a crapload of Fujitsu's go bad on me.
The Maxtor and the IBM didn't die right away though, just started developing bad sectors, while the others have all dies horrible deaths.

 

[Alex]

although it might be more correct to have it die a quick and painless death, id prefer if it agonises for a while and allows me to start backing up

i know from experience (the hard way) that you HAVE to back up all the stuff that means anything to ya... no matter how stable you are... i already create windows restore points on an almost obsessively compulsive basis and when i can buy a secondary HD ill get one to backup or have a raid array or something...

 

[SonicTron]

Hehe

My hard drive problems and successes:

LOST:

IBM 20gig 75GXP
IBM 30gig 75GXP
Seagate Medalist 3.2gig (about 2 years ago, to short circuit that took out the whole system)
13GB WD ata66 (first ata66 drives made) - this is a funny case....more later.....

GOOD:

420MB Conner from a PACKARD BELL Pentium 60 (this drive 0wnz0r j00)
315MB Seagate from a Compaq 486
IBM 15gig 75GXP (not a single problem, ever in 2 years I think)
IBM 30gig 60GXP (its still fairly new though, < 1 year old)



the 13gb WD drive.....history:

bought....used in a P233MMX
complete hardware failure, scandisk reported just about every other sector as BAD
banged it around a bit in frustration, stuck it back in and reformatted.
reformat took hours........so many reclamations of allocation units.......
hey, it works!
pop her back in and reinstall everything
complete hardware failure.........more bad sectors!
wtf?!
fdisk + format = good again
so, for the last 3 years the drive has been 100% rock solid, with no bad sectors.....

how the hell eh?

 

[krackato]

I don't even trust harddrives anymore. Mostly cause I don't backup often enough, and I always hear horror stories, and I've lost ONE drive. You'd think I'd be a little more trusting, but I'm not. I'm still very reluctant to buy Western Digital even though I've only ever owned 2 WD harddrives, and only one went bad. I've had 7 harddrives and only 1 went bad. I'm not counting laptops since their harddrives never seem to go bad. Why is that? Maybe I just haven't heard of any laptop harddrive horror stories.

Counting my Tivo harddrives, I guess I've owned 9 harddrives and only 1 went bad. I'm just counting the drives that came with my 2 tivos, which have been running full time for about 2 years now. I haven't upgraded my Tivos. Yet...