Comments on: Hard Drive Hell

By: rainbowfly

rainbowfly — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:35:05 +0000

Hi Todd,

I wanted to say that I have experienced this as well. Previously at another place of employment they had their server hosted on 1 Seagate hard drive, and it crashed, they did have a back up. I replaced it with what they sent me, which was another Seagate and set up a mirror with a Western Digital. The new Seagate crashed and I restored the drive with the Western Digital mirror. I was in school at the time for my MCSA and I asked the person who supported all the computers what they used in their machines. He replied “Western Digital.” Anything else would crash all the time. Ever since then I have WD in my machines and they are still running years later. I also have a few hard drives being replaced at work, I haven’t looked to see what they are, since I only saw the errors in the error logs, they have not actually crashed yet, but I can almost bet, they will be Seagates.

Glad to see I am not the only one this has happened too and who is seeing this pattern.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:14:53 +0000

Yeah, I understand the Turion 64′s add an amazing amount of battery life. P4′s just really aren’t good for the mobile market. Also, I have to agree on Seagate harddrives, but in the general. I swore them off because the last 5 I’ve tried all died in a very short time.

I also worked for a small OEM store when Seagate bought Conner. Seagate had a bunch of Conner drives they didn’t know if they were bad or not, so they sent them to us as Seagates. We had an very high rate of return on those drives. The kicker is that all the RMA returns were replaced with true Seagates. Funny little corporate decisions.

To this day I will tell people to go with Maxtor or Western Digital for reliability. I’ve been burned far too many times.

By: feelingdoingfranny

feelingdoingfranny — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:34:45 +0000

Glad to see you back, Todd. I was getting worried.