Poll: Hard drive failures

[Fjive]

i have had 3 hard disk that fail on me lately...quantum 15gig 5400 this was about 4 months ago
then i bought a maxtor 40 gig d740x...crash and i found bad sectors on it...that was 2 weeks ago...
borrowed a maxtor 10gig 5400 from a friend...crash again...found bad sectors
.....ahh....how sad 🙁

 

[MarkHark]

>>>One small issue with this poll is that, if the percentage of failures was exactly the same for all >>>brands, then the most popular drives would get the worst marks.
>>>So far Samsung looks like the most reliable drive. How many of you have ever owned a Samsung?


I have already owned a few, for many years now... Guess my first Samsumg was an old 3.4GB. Since that time, I've had my fair share of Samsumg drives, they are very common in Brazil. I currently own a 20 GB Samsumg, for more than 2 years already, it has been my primary drive until I bought a 40GB Maxtor 5400 rpm a few weeks ago. Now it's supposed to become my backup drive, or extra storage space for music and pictures 🙂. It still works perfectly (knock on wood), not a single bad cluster yet...

Some friends of mine have different opinions on that matter, but personally, I have never had a Samsumg HD fail on me before I finally decide to get rid of them, after some 3-5 years of loyal service on a daily basis, as primary, secondary, and even as mobile-rack-mounted HDs.

My current (new) configuration is:
Duron 1GHz@1.133 (8.5X133), Soyo K7VTA Pro
1st HD-Maxtor 40GB, ATA100;
2nd HD-Samsumg 20GB, ATA66;
3rd HD (rack-mounted)-Quantum 12GB, ATA66;
4th HD-Western Digital 8.4GB(also rack-mounted); This one, together with my old K6-500 cpu, will soon replace my children's PentiumMMX 200 w/ 3GB HD gamebox.

As you can see, I do put my HDs to use for a very, very long time...

 

[The Sauce]

Well judging from the poll so far it seems as though IBM is really not much more failure-prone than WD or Maxtor. Kinda makes you wonder what all the fuss is about.

 

[yourharddrive]

I've had a IBM 8gig and and IBM Travelstar 10GB crap out on me, and aftrer reading about those GXP's I have come to the conclusion never to buy an IBM again.

 

[HepDude]

I actually just had my first HD failure last weekin many, many years. My WD 1000JB failed within a couple weeks of installation. However, this occurred hours after adding a 3rd HD to the Antec HD case that is designed to hold 3 HDs in a detachable HD cage, but I think that too much heat builds up as a result (WD was the top HD in the stack).

So, some of these failures listed many have nothing to do with the HD itself.

BTW, I am still running a 0.8GB WD Caviar drive that is 7 years old, and a Fujitsu 3.2GB that is roughly 4 years old.