Velociraptors unreliable or just bad luck?

[Intelman07]

So a few months ago, I say December, my 1 month old Velociprator died. I sent it in and got a replacement. Now, June 7th, my replacement has died. I know this is only two dying, but this seems odd. I have a PC Power and Cooling power supply, which seems to have stable voltages. I have an Asus P5E (incase that is known to kill Hard drives).

Are these drives unreliable, or do I have bad luck? I hate sending for replacements.

 

[alcoholbob]

They died how? Boot ROM corrupt, or mechanical failure?

 

[Intelman07]

First one kept clicking, but would show up in the bios. Tried it in another machine to confirm death. This second one sounds fine, appears to spin up, but I cannot get past the initial boot screen, where it is trying to detect the first AHCI drive....the raptor. It just sits there. As soon as I disconnect it, the boot process completes, but obviously windows will not load.

 

[Mwing]

mine died 2 months ago, got a replacement, the replacement has been fine for a month, but the replacement heatsink is different

the one died couldnt be detected by bios, tried on 2 mobo

 

[Intelman07]

Maybe the 3rd time is a charm? Not sure how this is "Enterprise reliability". Though I am probably in the minority.

 

[allthatisman]

I have had mine for 2 months now, came from a GSkill Titan SSD. Honestly, to the naked eye, I cant really tell much of a difference. Ok... I know deep down it isn't as fast, but the VR still loads Vista and all my games ALMOST as fast without all the goofy SSD issues. As far as reliablity... well this drive is almost as silent as the SSD as well, and has been like a rock. The space leaves much to be desired, but hey, you gotta pay to play right? I really like this drive until the SSD market(and Microsoft) figure out how to make flash drives more mainstream.