Fuck WD drives for serious.

[Notuern]

There are only 2 types of hard drives ones that have failed and ones that are going to fail, regardless of brand. I've worked in IT shops and it doesn't matter the brand name, they ALL fail within time. You have platters that are spinning at 72000 RPM's constantly, eventually something is going to give.

Whatever brand you buy, back your crap up, and then some! Put OMF files onto CD's DVD's or DVD RAM, then have a second Hard drive for redunancy. It's the only safe way to always having access when it goes. If you don't then it's your fault!

Sure, but I dont know anyone that used Maxtor drives that havent failed in a couple of years.

But Ive had a couple Western Digitals that worked flawlessly for atleast 4 years(My dad was an IT-tech, got alot of free stuff! ;D).

Now days I only buy Seagate Barracudas, those are the most stable drives ive ever used.
Ive had a Seagate Barracuda for about 10 years now, still works great(Of course a bit slow and small in space by todays standards.).
So thats my tip to y'all!

 

[Skaldir]

ALL mechanical hard drives WILL break, no matter who manufactured it. It is only a matter of time, and even that is completely random due to their mechanical nature.

Truth.
And after finding out how harddrives work I say it's a wonder that they don't crash after two days!

My only drive that crashed was from IBM. And I heard a lot about Maxtor drives dying from friends.
I have Samsung and Seagate now and I backup quite often

 

[mintcheerios]

+1 to Solid State Drives. No moving parts, zero noise, less power consumption, mre shock resistant, and outperforms 10,000 rpm drives.



Now if the price would just go down a little faster...

 

[ConspiracyBass]

Samsung or Seagate mofo's.

Though, I think I have all Maxtor drives right now. Haha.

[edit: Nope. 1 WD and 1 Samsung. Haha.]

 

[JBroll]

Somehow I've never had a problem with WD and have had nothing but hell from Maxtor... oh well. I've also fixed more computers than most people have used, which makes it seem strange that I still have WDs that are a decade old and still working... and I suspect more and more each day that the balance of the universe will be restored and all of my hard drives will die at once.

Buying external drives has been, in my experience, a great way of spending more than necessary and having something that dies the day after the warranty expires.

Jeff

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Glorious. I am back and running. 2 hours of installing shit though .

 

[Keregioz]

I have 2 internal seagate barracuda drives one is 2 yeas old the other about 4 years. Never had a problem. The last 2 years I have my PC on and the HDs working almost 24/7.
I recently got an external 500GB WD drive for backups. It's still working but I've only had it for few months. I had some problems with the PC crashing though, luckily I only turn it on when I need to back up.
From the time I saw this video and realized how sensitive this equipment is I've been terrified I'll wake up one day with my hard disks busted...

 

[Aaron Smith]

... and I suspect more and more each day that the balance of the universe will be restored and all of my hard drives will die at once.

Haha, such a great way to put it!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Fuck. I can't find a serial backup of apptrigga.

emailing them now

 

[colonel kurtz]

first of all, i must be the luckiest SOB in the world, because i've never had a HD failure in my life...ever

Well since people have seemed to have problems with Seagate as well (I've heard complaints beyond just the ones in this thread), is there any brand of hard drive (just the drive, not including an enclosure) worth considering? The only ones I know of are Seagate, WD, and Maxtor, and I've heard a fair share of complaints about all of them (though my Seagate external has been going strong for 3.5 years despite daily use and constant transport)

when it comes down to it, i have doubts that there's much in the way of differences, quality-wise, between most brands. it seems like for every drive out there, you'll have a bunch of people who say how great they are, and a few people with horror stories...of course any mass-produced item is going to have a small percentage of units that are faulty from the get-go, so you're going to get the occasional raping regardless of who makes it.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

It's been said countless time already - manufacturer makes very little difference, they all fuck up eventually.

I've had three drive die on me in total - one WD, one Seagate and one Samsung. The Samsung is the latest (went last week), but it was a 40Gb thing that was 10 years old and had nothing on it but a different version of Windows.

I will say, however, that some handle abuse better than others. I studied graphics at Uni, which involved madly powerful computers rendering 3D scenes for days on end - so the HDDs were going full tilt for like 72+ hours at a time. Being a Computing department, they just used whatever drives were sitting around spare. The WD drives didn't last as long as some others under those conditions, but under normal use there's not that much difference between brands.

Steve

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Fuck. I can't find a serial backup of apptrigga.

emailing them now

Fuck yes. I backed it up, just couldn't find the serial and username.

Horray! I read the email again and I would have had to pay more money for that shit again (not that apptrigga is expensive)

 

[Notuern]

It's been said countless time already - manufacturer makes very little difference, they all fuck up eventually.

Manufacturer makes a HUGE difference!
Its all a matter of how SOON they fuck up.

My brother bought a brand new Maxtor Diamondmax at the same time as i bought my Seagate Barracuda, his died after a few months, mine is still alive(~10 years later.).

He bought a few Maxtors after that as well, and not a single one of them lived longer then a year and a half.

I have had a couple of Maxtors as well, and have friends who had Maxtors, and its been the same for all of us.

 

[colonel kurtz]

funny...i'm pretty sure every computer i've ever owned(with the exception of a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreally old epson something-or-other that had 2 5.5" floppy drives and no HD) has had a maxtor drive in it, and i've never had one fail

 

[Notuern]

funny...i'm pretty sure every computer i've ever owned(with the exception of a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreally old epson something-or-other that had 2 5.5" floppy drives and no HD) has had a maxtor drive in it, and i've never had one fail

Yeah, I have to say that it sounds really odd to me.
As I said above, ive heard of more then 30 Maxtor failures, and most "it-people" I know hate Maxtors because they get HD-failures so often. ;X

 

[nwright]

The only HD's I've ever had go on me have been Maxtors.

I just ordered a WD Scorpio 120GB internal drive for my recording laptop...This will be my audio only drive. Now you all have me worried.

 

[JBroll]

Guys, there's a big difference between "This drive failed for me" and "All of these drives fail" - I have to agree with the 'they all fail eventually' statement.

Jeff

 

[Mullet]

RAID for the win.... I had a RAID 1 (data mirrored across 2 drives) array die on me because of a faulty Samsung 750GB drive.... reset the BIOS so the machine wasn't looking for a RAID array then bingo..... the good drive booted.... no data loss.

 

[Notuern]

Guys, there's a big difference between "This drive failed for me" and "All of these drives fail" - I have to agree with the 'they all fail eventually' statement.

Jeff

Of course it is, but sence everyone I know that used Maxtor drives have had hd-failures you kinda come to the conclusion that they fail alot more often then other drives. ;X

And I remember reading some reviews about the Diamondmax-series, where alot of them died within a couple of months.
Maxtor provides 3 years of warranty, Seagate provides 5 years(Usualy, the duration of the warranty is related to the quality of the product.).

Sure, all drives will fail, but I have a really hard time thinking that the quality of the drive doesnt make any difference.

 

[JBroll]

The quality of the drive is obviously making a difference... but the quality across manufacturers can vary greatly. Your categorization is nothing more than slightly-informed stereotyping.

Jeff