stupid seagate....

[Acanthus]

Just loaded windows 7 ultimate & all my programs/files etc etc you know the drill, come home from some errands and pull my computer out of sleep & locks up.

turn it off, back on, no hard drive detected in the bios nowhere!!!, pulled the drive, hooked up via usb>sata adapter and it powers up just nothing else.

500gb barracuda 7200.11 , guess there was a problem with these drives after some research, same thing happened to tons of people. 18 months and now its a brick!!!

oh well, had to venture to a Best Buy & upgraded to 1TB WD Black drive and just reloading everything now...

cliffs:
1. dont buy seagate harddrives

2. WD ftw.

every company has good and bad drives.

WD has had a few suspicious lines with high fail rates, as well as recalls.

So has seagate... and we all know the deathstars by IBM.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Western digital. Fuck ya.

 

[TridenT]

Doesn't it have a warranty you can use??? :/

 

[Jinru]

I just recently started getting the "chirp of death" on my Seagate 320gb 7200.10 drive after 2 years of use... Did some googling and found out it's a pretty common issue. Getting ready to buy a WD backup, they haven't let me down on my past builds yet.

 

[chin311]

Doesn't it have a warranty you can use??? :/

pretty sure seagates are 1 year. its been about 15-18 months

 

[phoenix79]

pretty sure seagates are 1 year. its been about 15-18 months

Actually, until about 9 months ago it was 5 years, now its 3

 

[Zargon]

some seagates are 5 year

its pretty much per drive basis on warrenty periods now, its all very buyer beware

 

[chin311]

actually i just looked up the item from my old invoice via newegg and its a 3 yr warranty.

looks like i'll send it back for a spare drive then..

 

[l0cke]

The problem with making hard drives is that they are bound to fail eventually, but after they fail the person who bought it will end up blaming the company instead of the format. Lesson: All HDD's will fail, guaranteed. Switching brands will not help because they all fail.

 

[Jeff7]

I've got a grand total of 7 Seagate drives in my PC, 4 on RAID 5, 3 standard, running since January of 2005.
I bought them during the 5-year-warranty days; don't know if that's still the norm.

 

[Arkaign]

I install about 200-300 drives a year, about half SCSI/SAS and the rest desktop drives, mostly upgrades, failure replacements, or fresh loadsets, and wouldn't rate WD or Seagate better or worse than one another. Hitachi is also decent, but maybe slightly down the chain, and then there's Samsung and the rest, which I make a point of avoiding.