None have destroyed themselves yet, although ancient hard drive i gladly destroy in whatever way seems fit.
-Mark
-Mark
One Maxtor, many years ago. I have continued to use Maxtor drives; none have died since.
The death of that drive may have been related to a power supply going bad -- didn't discover that until later when the PSU failed completely. Luckily, the drive gave me about a week's warning, during which time I was able to extract all my data except for two files I didn't really need anyway.
At work a few years back, we had an entire lot (I would guess 50 to 100.) Western Digital HDs fail after they had been installed in rack-mounted PCs (transaction processors) and shipped to the field. They all had to be returned. I don't know what model these drives were.
The death of that drive may have been related to a power supply going bad -- didn't discover that until later when the PSU failed completely. Luckily, the drive gave me about a week's warning, during which time I was able to extract all my data except for two files I didn't really need anyway.
At work a few years back, we had an entire lot (I would guess 50 to 100.) Western Digital HDs fail after they had been installed in rack-mounted PCs (transaction processors) and shipped to the field. They all had to be returned. I don't know what model these drives were.
CubicZirconia
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- Nov 24, 2001
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DT4K
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- Jan 21, 2002
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None.
The 8 gig in my 4 year old compaq still runs perfect. I think it's a maxtor.
I had a 250MB drive in a 386 that still worked when I donated the computer to Goodwill when it was about 6 years old.
How could stuff get inside the drives? Does that mean the seals cracked or something? Smoke shouldn't hurt a drive since it's vacuum sealed.
The 8 gig in my 4 year old compaq still runs perfect. I think it's a maxtor.
I had a 250MB drive in a 386 that still worked when I donated the computer to Goodwill when it was about 6 years old.
How could stuff get inside the drives? Does that mean the seals cracked or something? Smoke shouldn't hurt a drive since it's vacuum sealed.
---zero----
probably b/c I replace them and relegate them to workstations/servers away from the front lines pretty often.
Chiz
probably b/c I replace them and relegate them to workstations/servers away from the front lines pretty often.
Chiz
Spicedaddy
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0 here. I still have a couple of old 250mb Quantum drive lying around that are still running strong 
zephyrprime
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- Feb 18, 2001
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1 seagate (340mb)
1 maxtor (160gb)
1 toshiba (notebook drive) (20gb)
I've had...let's see...14 hard drives not counting the warranty replacements I've received. With warranty replacements, it'd be 16.
1 maxtor (160gb)
1 toshiba (notebook drive) (20gb)
I've had...let's see...14 hard drives not counting the warranty replacements I've received. With warranty replacements, it'd be 16.
Too many to count, have a box full, probably about 40 drives since 1983. The one that burns me up the most though is a Fujitsu 40 Gig 7200 RPM that died after only 3 months in service. There is a Worldwide Class action lawsuit started on Fujitsu since they are not replacing the drives. There is a thread locked in the Technical Support Forum about this.
2 WD 2.1 gig drives
1 WD 13.6 gig
1 Maxtor 30 gig
In 7 years. Also had a quantum go bonkers on me on a slightly overclocked Soyo/Celeron system, but after a painfully slow reformat, (must have had to restart it 10 times...) it is still working fine for my Dad. In spite of the bad maxtor (bought from outpost.com, had a HP sticker on it ), I still go for Maxtor drives. Currently running:
1 80 gig 7200 rpm
2 40 gig 7200 rpm
1 30 gig 7200 rpm
1 40 gig 5400 rpm
2 20 gig 5400 rpm
all Maxtors. Keeping my eye open for hot deals on a pair of 60 or 80 gig Maxtors for the future RAID configuration upgrade.
1 WD 13.6 gig
1 Maxtor 30 gig
In 7 years. Also had a quantum go bonkers on me on a slightly overclocked Soyo/Celeron system, but after a painfully slow reformat, (must have had to restart it 10 times...) it is still working fine for my Dad. In spite of the bad maxtor (bought from outpost.com, had a HP sticker on it
), I still go for Maxtor drives. Currently running:1 80 gig 7200 rpm
2 40 gig 7200 rpm
1 30 gig 7200 rpm
1 40 gig 5400 rpm
2 20 gig 5400 rpm
all Maxtors. Keeping my eye open for hot deals on a pair of 60 or 80 gig Maxtors for the future RAID configuration upgrade.
eplebnista
Lifer
- Dec 3, 2001
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pillage2001
Lifer
- Sep 18, 2000
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1 IBM 75GXP
1 Quantum Fireball SE
1 Quantum Firelball LM <------- Due to my own fault. I touched the circuit board while the pc is on.
All in all, I've got the best experience with Quantum. I've used their hdd all my life and it's a sad thing that they had to be sold.
1 Quantum Fireball SE
1 Quantum Firelball LM <------- Due to my own fault. I touched the circuit board while the pc is on.
All in all, I've got the best experience with Quantum. I've used their hdd all my life and it's a sad thing that they had to be sold.
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