How long has your hard drive lasted you?

[Ionizer86]

It seems that hard drives carry three year warranties for a reason. My old 3.2gb WD HDD started clicking right after three years, and it totally failed within another half year. How about others hard drives? How long do they last you if they aren't some busted drive that breaks within a month?

 

[Zorro]

I Have had my 60gb for 4yrs now running smooth.

 

[Rent]

My Maxtor 30GB will turn 2 this upcoming April

 

[TheBlondOne]

I have had 4 hard drives fail on me.....and I'm only 20. I think I have a long, miserable life ahead of me.



--Sarah

 

[malbojah]

My maxtor 10gb is going on 3 1/2 shortly. Got that drive when it was $200 and came witha free internal zip 100 drive (which is still working also)

 

[dsparks]

I have had really good luck out of my drives...

I only buy IBM or Maxtor though.

 

[crab]

WD WD307AA 30gb still goin since 99

 

[j0lly]

My Quantum (now Maxtor) Bigfoot 8GB is 4 years old and still going strong.

 

[loup garou]

I've never had a hard drive fail on me at home or at work. I guess upwards of 20+ drives. Guess I'm lucky.

 

[Vadatajs]

My western digital failed on me in less than 2 years.

 

[Texmaster]

ah the hard drive, lifeblood of a system

I've had my scsi2 quantum 70GB hard drive for 3 1/2 years.

Its survived 7 major upgrades and is still going strong.

My scsi 18gb hard drive handed down to my father is celebrating 5 years

Gotta love the scsi

 

[pdo]

I hope my hard drive will last for another 10 years then it's Viagra from then on.

 

[RSI]

Never had a drive crap out on me. I have some 400MB drives, a 2GB drive and a 20GB drive (the 20GB being the favorite and overall best purchase to date).

-RSI

 

[ViperMagic]

My twins (WD 60'as) will be a month old tommarow!

The Elder, a 200MB backup, is turning 6, I belive

 

[MrCodeDude]

My Seagate is a few weeks old. My Maxtor is a year old and my Quantum is 2 years old..
-- mrcodedude

 

[Zipp]

I had 2 Hard drive failures within 1 week of each other on a Gateway system some years back. I think they just sent me a refurbished hard drive to replace the original and that one died in like 6 days.

Quick question: What is better for your hardrive as far as preventing failure and extending it's life as long as possible?

Having windows turn disk off after a certain amount of time or just keep it spinning all the time?

 

[busmaster11]

I've had about two dozen hard drives in my life, I think two seagates, a micropolis, two WD's, three IBMs, a quantum, a dozen Maxtors, etc... My recent ones are all Maxtor and IBM. Three of them are SCSI.

NONE of them have failed on me. I can honestly say, HDs generally won't fail on you unless they've been mistreated... like you dropping them, or they were dropped during shipping, etc...

 

[monk3y]

The hard drive on the computer I'm using right now has been in action for a good 3 years

 

[bunker]

I have a 1.6gb WD caviar that's going on 6 years old and still kickin'.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

In my office, I have a IBM Aptiva whose hard drive hasn't failed yet. It is a 1 gig drive. I think the computer was purchased some time in 1996 :Q I have never had a HD fail on me yet!

 

[Doggiedog]

You should have a spot for 1 year or less because there are a lot of guys that have IBM 75GXPs here like me that have failed.

 

[nukefarmer]

I had a WD 3.2 GB harddisk that failed after about 2 years. It was still under warranty so i got a replacement, but that one died after a week.
I now have IBM and Maxtor drives, no failures yet...