On 02/06/11 21:55, Picbits Sales wrote:
> All the Seagate drives I've had over the past 5 years have failed with ba=
d
> sectors / seek errors. I've vowed never to touch another Seagate drive
> again. My Samsungs have been pretty reliable.

I've had pretty good luck with the Barracuda 7200.10 series, but the=20
7200.11 series are total turkeys. I had one suffer a motor drive chip=20
failure (causing the spindle motor to brake HARD -- the resulting energy=20
dump sent the drive flying across the desk). The other did the usual=20
"SMART corruption" stuff.

Called Seagate and they wouldn't issue an RMA number for either drive.=20
They basically argued with me for 40 minutes and gave me the impression=20
that I had about as much chance of getting these drives RMA'd as a=20
snowball would have in the deepest pits of Hell.

Then I turned to the supplier (CCL Computers). Can't fault them at all.=20
They took both drives back and replaced them with new drives... which I=20
promptly traded for cash at CeX. Said cash was put towards buying a=20
brand new pair of Western Digital RE2 drives for my desktop machine.

I did some freelance work a LONG while back for a company who made DVRs.=20
Engineering couldn't decide whether to use Seagate or WD drives, so the=20
initial production run was a half-and-half mix.

When I left, nearly every one of the Seagate-powered boxes had failed=20
with HDD errors. Almost all of the WD-powered boxes were *still working=20
perfectly*.

The last "decent" Seagate drive was probably the ST277R. Or maybe the ST506=
..

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Phil.
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