Why do these hard drives keep failing?

[Beattie]

I just bought a new 80 gig samsung drive to replace my 40 gig maxtor that's making strange noises. If that one fails, it will be the first drive ever to fail on me.

 

[chocoruacal]

Anytime you see a thread where a poster proclaims to know which drive makers are more reliable than the others, assume said poster is talking out of his a$$. You can't generalize HD makers thru worthless anecdotal observations. Ever notice that its always someone who has had 5+ drives fail, yet: a) its NEVER the fault of the environment, i.e. location or other computer components and b) why do they keep buying that brand if they have no confidence in them. LMAO?riiighhhht. Here?s the real reason: insecure computer geeks fall on the sword for whatever component they own. Have WD? Then Maxtor sucks. Have Maxtor? Then WD sucks. An exception being IBM, I think we all can agree they suck

ANY HD can fail. Think of them as wet dynamite?might go 10 years without an incident yet can blow at any time. So don?t be pissed when you lose 200GB worth of p0rn, MP3s, and Divx files

 

[xenos500]

Originally posted by: frogster220
LOL, I didn't even mention that they were almost all WD drives.

Thats hilarious.
I also wont buy any more WD drive...I have had various ones dating from 2001 and all of them have broken.
I trust seagate and hitachi with my data currently.

I have no problem with maxtor, but little experiance.

SCSI is the only way to really have faith in a single drive....
I dropped a 02 ultrastar from the top of an industrial dumpster to the concrete parkinglot below, the drive bounced twice and rolled about 5 feet tumbling end over end. <accidental!> That drive has been my boot drive for eight months now....

 

[lowpost]

My WD250 was causing all sorts of problems. It would hard lock one mobo, and reset a different one. I realized it was too hot to touch, and bought an antec hard drive cooler w/ thermal probe. No problems since.

 

[frogster220]

Originally posted by: lowpost
My WD250 was causing all sorts of problems. It would hard lock one mobo, and reset a different one. I realized it was too hot to touch, and bought an antec hard drive cooler w/ thermal probe. No problems since.

I've gone with hard drive coolers or having drives by the intake fans, but it hasn't stemmed the flow. The latest casualty had a fan right by it.

 

[frogster220]

I have/had 9 hard drives operating. Of the nine, six are western digital. Five of the six western digital drives have failed within the last year

 

[CindySue22]

Originally posted by: frogster220
UPDATE:



Are there any software programs that will automatically generate a mirror of a directory on another computer?
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I use an external Maxtor HDD (with Danz Retrospect-it comes with the drive), and it's saved me a couple of times.