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Hard Dirves always die on me. :(

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IamDavid

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Is it just me or are HD's these days crap? I'm talking absolute crap. I always read the reviews and buy the most "reliable" drives but to no avail. I don't get it. Seagate died, working on the refurb now. Maxtor crapped out 2 months after purchase, refurb shortly after getting it. And Western Digital which I purchased last August or so just died a few weeks ago and am waiting replacement.. I do nothing special like movie editing or any other hd intense app. Mostly just data storage and gaming. Temps are fine....

I'm lost now and have no idea what to buy.. Did reliability get replaced with speed?
 
Are you sure it's just your hard drives? Maybe something else in your comp is killing them? Just a thought.

EDIT: I'd probably get more Seagates, they do have that warranty.
 
i never had a hd fail on me in this lifetime... i think it mite be ur psu giving too much juice?... buy a cheap voltmeter and measure?
 
MAAAAAYBE, and this is a hunch, maybe its your power supply. You might be feeding dirty power if your PSU is sh!t. It may also be electrostatic. Static charge could be shocking your system and got your HDDs.
 
If they are in seperate PCs it could just be bad luck, or possibly poor power and surges from your home's electrical system.

I would suggest make sure your PSUs are good quality and possibly purchase a UPS.
 
It's funny how two different people can have totally different results with HDs... I have yet to have a single HD crash on me, and I even own two IBM 75GXP Deskstars. I think I've owned at least one of every major HD brand as well.
 
Maxtor is bar none the worst for reliability. so if you've had Seagates and even they die, there is something else wrong 😛
 
Rrrrright...
I've only purchased Maxtors, and have yet to have one die on me. I'd go with Seagate if the prices were same.
 
Originally posted by: daniel1113
It's funny how two different people can have totally different results with HDs... I have yet to have a single HD crash on me, and I even own two IBM 75GXP Deskstars. I think I've owned at least one of every major HD brand as well.
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ROFL, sounds like you're due.

we had 4 HDD go down at work last week.
 
Originally posted by: drum
Originally posted by: daniel1113
It's funny how two different people can have totally different results with HDs... I have yet to have a single HD crash on me, and I even own two IBM 75GXP Deskstars. I think I've owned at least one of every major HD brand as well.
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ROFL, sounds like you're due.

we had 4 HDD go down at work last week.
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I know it... I've even done as much as I could to provoke those damn Deskstars to crash, like shipping them through UPS, etc. But they just keep going. Of course, I don't store anything of value on them anymore... lol.
 
Do you have a good surge suppessor and a UPS ?

What model is your psu ?

What is the temp inside your case ?
 
I used to have that problem as well. I believe it came down to a faulty PSU that was slowly killing my HDs. It's either that or faulty wiring in your residence.

If you have a UPS (which would remove faulty house wiring from the list of possibilities since the UPS balances power surges and dips), it's probably your PSU.
 
Since it really wasn't mentioned by others I thought I would bring up another possibility. I have a story that illustrates it nicely, too.

My brother's best friend of 30+ years was known, somewhat undeservedly, as a real computing guru at the company in which they both work. I was always hearing about how brilliant this guy was, but how much trouble he had with home computers. No trouble with computers at work. Lots of hard drive failures at home. Little brother, who isn't into computers at all, finally wangled an invitation for himself and me to visit this guy at home. My brother figured it had to be the power supplies in the guy's home-built systems, or a power problem external to the computers themselves.

I was amazed at the guy's setup. He had thousands (yup, thousands) of dollars tied up in isolation, surge protection, brownout protection, filtering -- the attention and equipment he had lavished upon his power needs would have warmed the heart of the most ardent audiophile.

I noticed, however, that all three of his computers sat under his svelte powder-coated aluminum and glass desk. As it turns out, this boy really likes to listen to loud rock music at home -- something he doesn't do at work. It also turns out that he is somewhat of a toe-tapper. Used to be a drummer in a rock band in the sixties, and he really spazzes out when he's listening. As I watched him kicking the crap out of his towers whilst playing an FPS on one of the boxes and defragging the other two it occurred to me that it probably wasn't really a good idea to deliver repeated sharp blows to the system case while the hard drives were in use.

I mentioned this to the guy and asked him if he thought that it might have something to do with all of the hard drive failures he was experiencing at home. He stammered for a while and got red in the face and came up with a plausible (NOT) explanation to debunk that possibility. As he was being kind of surly my brother and I decided to head back to Bubba's house for the remainder of the evening.

That was a couple of years ago. I don't get to see Bubba often because we're on opposite coasts and both pretty busy. But I saw him at the end of last year and asked him how the toe-tapper was doing. He just gave me his best sh!t-eatin' grin and said he hadn't heard of any more HD failures.

Whether this is due to the guy cutting us out of the loop because we pissed him off, or whether he stopped having HD failures is anyone's guess. But I know what I think.

Now, I'm not saying the originator of this thread is a toe-tapper. But, if all the other possible explanations mentioned earlier have been disproved in this case, it might be a good idea to check to be sure that mechanical shock / vibration aren't involved.

There are some types of stressful use, like multiple user SQL database thrashing, that can bring a consumer drive to its knees in a hurry, too, but it doesn't seem as though there's any such use occuring in this case.
 
In years, only a Maxtor 6.4 Gb started to fail (and I sold it 😛 ). Then a WD 30 Gb also, but it was sold too 😛 .
No problems in years with a Seagate 120 Gb and Hitachi/IBM 40 and 80 Gb...
I think its a problem of your electrical system or both PSU in both systems, or bad luck 😛
 
Some helpfull answers here, from yacoub and others. Dirty or inproper power from his pwr supplies or main house pwr, NO ground perhaps, dirt in system [ fur maybe ]. Some guys expect their women to think of doing this sort of thing [ NOT ]. Static discharges from walking on carpets, then touching a poorly grounded sys case. No cover on case and his kid beats on the drives while he's at work with his CUTE lil hammer given to him by grampa [ Grampa was a carpenter, you know ]. Yours was interesting jaykleg. toe tapper huh, heh, the guy was a dink, he thought he was a GURU and you guys took him down a peg. He may have been a GURU in his own right, but that doesn't mean that he can troubleshoot worth a dang. Case kept closed, no fans, hot room, sheeet happens, get my drift ? Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: ronach
Some helpfull answers here, from yacoub and others. Dirty or inproper power from his pwr supplies or main house pwr, NO ground perhaps, dirt in system [ fur maybe ]. Some guys expect their women to think of doing this sort of thing [ NOT ]. Static discharges from walking on carpets, then touching a poorly grounded sys case. No cover on case and his kid beats on the drives while he's at work with his CUTE lil hammer given to him by grampa [ Grampa was a carpenter, you know ]. Yours was interesting jaykleg. toe tapper huh, heh, the guy was a dink, he thought he was a GURU and you guys took him down a peg. He may have been a GURU in his own right, but that doesn't mean that he can troubleshoot worth a dang. Case kept closed, no fans, hot room, sheeet happens, get my drift ? Good luck.
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