A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:16 am

I only drop by Toms Hardware on occasion any more, but was glad to find this tidbit. Correlates for the most part with what I've found.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd ... 681-2.html

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:24 am

Yup, correlates for me as well. Seagate drives are crap lately. I've seen a LOT of failures - especially in externals. A pity because for a long time they were the most reliable drives. Western Digital used to be crap but have definitely improved, and yeah I've been buying Samsung lately because the reviews on NewEgg are great, and so far no issues. Which is funny because for many years Samsung made just about the crappiest drives on the planet.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:50 pm

i think its a drive makers conspiracy. they all take turns making crap drives !

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:29 pm

LOL, yeah, I haven't had a chance to get properly devoted to any particular manufacturer.

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:09 pm

I only own WD drives. I really like the Green ones for large storage drives.

GuardianAsher · Post by **GuardianAsher** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:39 pm

While I've had really bad luck with WD drives, I will say their customer service is top notch. I had a 1TB Enterprise drive and a 500GB Green drive die on me at less than a year old. After RMAs, on the 1TB I got a brand new Enterprise drive with more cache, and for the 500GB I got 2 (two) 800GB Green refurb drives. I called to check if this was a mistake, and it wasn't. w00t

As far as Seagates, I have a couple of 5 year old 320GB drives that are still running strong, a 3 year old 500GB drive that is also still good. I just updated my main PC to a 1TB Seagate 7200.12 (the one without the crap firmware issue) that I'm hoping will give me some good years of service, but I'm not keeping anything critical on it. And I also now have redundant backups after what happened with the 1TB WD drive. >.> But when you have about 4TB of stuff, it's hard to keep multiple backups

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:56 am

I still have an old Atlas 10,000 rpm SCSI drive that is probably 8 years old and still works. Its my garage rig with XP.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:00 am

Got a pile of Fujitus 15000rpm scsi drives that are closing in on 10 years. Server drives get all the love.

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:13 pm

Executioner wrote:I still have an old Atlas 10,000 rpm SCSI drive that is probably 8 years old and still works. Its my garage rig with XP.

Ya know? A garage rig is an awesome idea...I can't believe I haven't thought to do that yet.

To go more with the topic. I actually just posted a rant about HD's. Utter crap these days. Maybe I will try samsung next at FP's suggestion.