seagate selling garbage HDD'S

[PrymusBlack]

no but for real this is the second HDD from seagate that is failing within a month, i have RMA it and im getting a WD now. Is WD more reliable?

[Arya]

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by Infinity Josh:

They said that version should have been without issues but it wasn't true so.

It is without issues. OP where are you getting this information from by chance?

Any part can have issues. There's no such thing as perfect reliability.

Fun fact; Nasa predicted a reliability rate of 99.99% for their Apollo moonshot programme, one of the highest rates in history. But on average they still had around 33,000 part failures per launch. You really can't guarantee reliability, even with aerospace industry quality control and the best scientists in thw world.

[upcoast]

I guess it really depends how far the delivery guy punt kicks the drive to your door from his truck, lol, couldn't resist.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

Never had any problems with Seagate (or Toshiba), but every WD product (or WD subsidary product) I've ever owned has failed on me. I guess it depends on your luck...

I own a Toshiba Canvio Slim II....its my external hard disk.has not failed me yet. My internal is the Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM006 ...probably the fastest hard disk I have ever owned. The reputaion comes form 2009 when their manufacturing plant in Thailand was flooded. They were the first company to reduce the footprint of the hard disk drive from the size of a washing machine to 5,25".

[Arya]

Originally posted by upcoast:

I guess it really depends how far the delivery guy punt kicks the drive to your door from his truck, lol, couldn't resist.

I had a Motherboard delivered by Tom Brady once.

I'm only half joking. Every protruding connector on the bottom half was either snapped off, or bent to nearly 90 degrees by some kind of impact. And that's why I changed suppliers.

[Merc]

I have never had any issues with seagate hard drives. I am selling my 1tb barracuda though after three and a half years of use as I replaced it with an SSD drive.

[Hare+Guu!]

I've had a wd drive die too, but it was 10 years old. Just yesterday, my 6 year old seagate drive died. It still spins fine without clicking and whatnot, but the pcb is just dead and doesn't get detected. I'd switch it with another pcb, but I don't have the tools for it. It doesn't use philips head screws. I've been using for the past year as a recording drive. ie It would write 4-30gb files at a time, and deleted when it got reencoded almost everyday.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

One Toshiba external died on me - luckily managed before all anime on it to put onto a other drive. All highly valuable old series from 2004-2006.
When I had my first gaming PC, my Maxtor died in it after several years, but I had a new primary drive already then.
Generally I had no problems with either WD or Seagate. Bur I also think it depends a lot on how they are handled, Here they also put the bare drives into a single layer of bubble foil, so whenever I buy a HDD, I order it to their storage central and get it rather personally.
On my Seagate 1TB the SATA connector edge broke down (dunno how can be it that flimsy) but luckily it shows no issue since years due that.
My Seagate 3TB (DM 008) is the best drive I ever owned. For external definitely the new fancy colored WD series.

[PrymusBlack]

Originally posted by RGX12:

Originally posted by KillSwitch:

thats true tho, but its getting annoying to reinstall my games over time because my hdd is failing within months.

Lol, yeah I hear you man. But honestly, games are the least of the inconvenience (a couple of clicks in Steam and you're going again, assuming you got all your saves). Even though I now got it to the point where 50-60% of my day to day software is portable and cloud-based (so a lengthy "sync" gets me up to speed), and even using package managers like Chocolatey and Ninite to get the rest set up, I would still have to spend hours installing a few hundred gigs of some of the larger packages I use. Then the licenses, OS tweaks, startup scripts, environment variables, etc. Then maybe a few more hours futzing with Group Policy. Yeah, it's a PITA.

But you should at least do what I do... as soon as you got everything installed and set up "just so", immediately image the drive. (Then start your incrementals, if you're so disciplined.) But at least with the image, if you should have one of these "premature failures", you don't gotta do it all over again when you get your new drive.

well because of my hdd failed, i lost all my save data of homefront the new revolution. stupid enough the game doesn't have cloudsaving ;_;

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

Never had any problems with Seagate (or Toshiba), but every WD product (or WD subsidary product) I've ever owned has failed on me. I guess it depends on your luck...

I own a Toshiba Canvio Slim II....its my external hard disk.has not failed me yet. My internal is the Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM006 ...probably the fastest hard disk I have ever owned. The reputaion comes form 2009 when their manufacturing plant in Thailand was flooded. They were the first company to reduce the footprint of the hard disk drive from the size of a washing machine to 5,25".

i have an external toshiba hdd of 750gb, still rocking after rough 3 years of running games, so im using that one instead for game storage.

[Merc]

That happened to me not long ago, I accidently restored my computer back to 2014 :( I lost my Eurotrucksim2 profile as I never backed it up since 2014 and now I have to download a random completed profile and set my truck up all over again and maybe all the game settings too, it will probably take me up to a few hours, it sucks.

We learn from our mistakes, back up those important files in future! :)

Back up your important game profiles and settings to a memory stick.

[PrymusBlack]

Originally posted by Mercenary:

That happened to me not long ago, I accidently restored my computer back to 2014 :( I lost my Eurotrucksim2 profile as I never backed it up since 2014 and now I have to download a random completed profile and set my truck up all over again and maybe all the game settings too, it will probably take me up to a few hours, it sucks.

We learn from our mistakes, back up those important files in future! :)

Back up your important game profiles and settings to a memory stick.

yh i had a profile too on ETS2 but i had it on my laptop but my laptop crashed so i lost my profile too xD

[oobymach]

Seagate are noisy imo or at least the ones I had years ago were, longevity never seemed to be a problem but now with smaller and smaller bits being stored on hdd platters the failure rate's gone up.

WD are great drives but even they have issues with large drives failing, so it's not manufacturer specific, it seems to be a problem across the board for 3tb+ hdd's. If you're having issues with a large capacity drive you aren't alone, there's up to 30% failure rate on large capacity hdd's regardless of manufacturer.

Best option is to use a 2tb hdd as the failure rate on them is much lower.

[pasa]

In the old times there was some facility where you cold enter the serial of your HDD and it told some info including the distributor it was sent to. I recall a time period mass hdd failures, and checking revealed those serials not exist at the manufacturer.

My guess is that at the factory the QA throws out some specimens, and those are supposed to be destroyed or re-made... but instead some of them gets "lost" and finds its way to the market too. And fail after some time, and fuels all these kind of stories about the bad brand.

[InfinityJosh]

Originally posted by Mercenary:

I have never had any issues with seagate hard drives. I am selling my 1tb barracuda though after three and a half years of use as I replaced it with an SSD drive.

Wow it's kinda risky I think, maybe someone purchases an used HDD to steal banking info, not the first one which did it.
I would be sure no data would be recoverable by new owner.

[Omega]

Seagate HDDs are fine, you just got unlucky.

There are only 4 consumer HDD manufacturers, Westen Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and HGST (Formerly Hitachi, owned by WD). Just avoid Toshiba when looking for quality and you will be fine.

[Mikey 13]

WD Black: good. WD Blue: Have failed for me within warranty.