How many HD have died on you over the course of your computing experience?

wyvrn

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1, Quantum 20GB 5400 drive. And I think the main reason was smokers using the computer. Other than that, only 1 other drive even developed any bad sectors, that was a WD. I have had fabulous luck with hard drives :)
 

corkyg

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Lessee - since 1984 (my first HDD), I have had three complete failures. 1 Seagate, 1 IBM, and 1 WDC. These things are pretty reliable if you maintain them properly. :)
 

farscape

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None of mine.
My son - 3.2 WD from his old system from school. Was on 24/7 - and uploading and downloading for 2-1/2 years.
My wifes office - 1 720 meg Maxtor, 1 Seagate 1.5 gig, 2WDs -1.5 gig, 3.2 gig - when I opened those up, I had to clean them out with a 'shovel'. Billed them for 'cleaning out the ashtrays'.
 

Elcs

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Ive owned HDD's since the 20 meg versions were released. My dad had one in his Amiga 1200... (oh why cant Bill Gates make an OS like that one?)

Back to the topic, Ive never had an HDD die on me. ive still got a Seagate 420mb still working elsewhere.
 

Alkali

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1x Quantum 60GB 7200rpm (home PC)
1x Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm (home PC)
2x Maxtor <10GB 5400rpm
3x Fujitsu
2x Western Digital <5GB
2x IBM's <10GB

Thats as much as I can remember since last year.

In my opinion, Hard drives ought to be scrapped altogether, no matter how new they are between 1 year and 3 years later they die. Too much can go wrong with fast-moving mechanical parts, just like in a hard drive. Whats wrong with using Solid state memory? We already have 2GB Compact Flash cards, it wont really be that long before they get up to 6, 10GB, it makes sence to me.
 

KF

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The nearest was a 700M WD. It would sometimes fail to spin up if it was off for several days. I could get it to go by taking it out and putting it back in. After 2 1/2 years I began to worry about it failing after the waranty expired. WD accepted it for RMA.

Several years ago I pulled a 60MB (not G) RLL Mitsubishi out of my junk bin to see if it would work. It was interesting to figure out how. The interface card (WD) only fit into an ISA slot. It seemed to be OK at first, then it accumulated errors. I don't think it is fair to count that as a failure. Possibly reformatting it would have worked. Other than that, every HD I ever had still works, although the older ones are useless by being too small.
 

Chadder007

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Oct 10, 1999
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17x Quantum 20GB 5400rpm (All Gateway Machines)...yep 17. almost in a freaking row.
3x Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm (Gateway)
6x Seagate 400 meg (bout time they died anyway)
3x Fujitsu laptop 20GB
2x Western Digital (Gateway) problem was overheating.


BTW: I deal with about 500 PC's for my department.
 

CrackRabbit

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1x Samsung 1gb
4x Western Digital 6.4gb
1x Maxtor 40gb

The Western Digitals were the pitts, one would die every 3 months with nothing but a "whiiiirrrrrrr... CLUNK..."
 

CurtCold

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1 Maxtor Diamond Max 30GB 7200rpm
1 Western Digital 3GB 5400


Still have 2 WD caviar 400MB drives that work, and an old Seagate 3GB that still runs.
 

xSauronx

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none in 10 years of using computers...unless you count the one i bought recently that clicked itself to death on the first power up, which i dont count because i didnt keep it, was a WD tho
 

shr

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none, and i've been running a 75GXP for 2 years , guess I just got lucky :)