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Are you an IT tech Neil? In my job here we have hard drives fail from all kinds of different brands; there doesn't appear to be a 'repeat offender' or at least I haven't noticed.
 
trencheel303 said:
Are you an IT tech Neil? In my job here we have hard drives fail from all kinds of different brands; there doesn't appear to be a 'repeat offender' or at least I haven't noticed.
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yup IT support / system tech..

maxtor has without a doubt been my most popular offender for failures. next would be seagate ultraSCSI server drives (that have well exceeded their MTBF). then a scattering of deathstars, WD etc etc.

*touch wood* im yet to see a failure in any of my personal samsung F1 internals or seagate externals.
 
I've had a Samsung die on me lol, went out gracefully, bad sectored itself to death!
 
neil_g said:
sorry disagree, this has been the case in newer 60Gb+ units for us also.
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I'm not sure how you can disagree with a fact, but hey ho. It's a fact that I've never had a single Maxtor drive fail on me in a 10 year or so period starting about about 15 years ago with regular daily use.

Could you elaborate on "newer 60GB" units? I didn't think any company had made drives that small for quite a few years. The most reason one I had was a 200Gig and that was at least 5 years or so ago.

The only reason any of those drives got replaced was because their capacity was no longer useful or the speed became too slow to keep up with more power hungry updated software.

Seagate have been the #1 failure for me - in fact, other than one Western Digital that got dropped, I've not had any other brand fail on me.
 
As do I... hell I'm so paranoid about my data (which really isn't of any importance except to me) that I carry a backup of it around in my iPod :nuts:
 
Kaouthia said:
I'm not sure how you can disagree with a fact, but hey ho. It's a fact that I've never had a single Maxtor drive fail on me in a 10 year or so period starting about about 15 years ago with regular daily use.

Could you elaborate on "newer 60GB" units? I didn't think any company had made drives that small for quite a few years. The most reason one I had was a 200Gig and that was at least 5 years or so ago.

The only reason any of those drives got replaced was because their capacity was no longer useful or the speed became too slow to keep up with more power hungry updated software.

Seagate have been the #1 failure for me - in fact, other than one Western Digital that got dropped, I've not had any other brand fail on me.
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okay sorry maybe that was badly worded of me..

my experience differs from yours, like i say everyone has different hard drive failure tales.

re "60Gb+" - i mean i have had failures above your stated 20Gb up to recent models. forgive my vaugness i could give you examples, but they all end up in the bin.
 
2 Maxtor failures, zero Seagate (never owned a WD) :)

I think it's just luck. (Bad luck)

No matter the drive 0ne thing is sure - it will fail - maybe now, maybe next week, mayme next year, maybe longer - but it will fail - be prepared.
 
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