Seagate/Maxtor suck in big way

[jugodegolf]

Well all my friggin info that was stored on my external harddrive is now gone. Spoke with seagate rep/said my drive had failed and I was f...d. Great new technology we have.

laptop is 14 months old and failed.:3d_frown:

Anyway all I can do is let other people know so that they don't totally rely on this new tech.

 

[Kai]

Just buy Hitachi Deathstars like me. Not had a single failure in all the years i've been buying them

 

[iwannadie]

This is what backups are for.

 

[SupraMario]

western digital here, Ive got drives that are near 10 years old and still running strong.

 

[jugodegolf]

This is what backups are for.

I thought that was a backup. Lol. life goes on.

 

[Doward]

Use Seagate's 5 year warranty to replace it.

Hard drives die. Big deal. You did have an off site backup of important data, right?

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Yet to have a hard drive fail.

 

[JMDigital]

all drives fail.. I learned the hard way, backups good.. to DVD's not external hard drives.

 

[jugodegolf]

all drives fail.. I learned the hard way, backups good.. to DVD's not external hard drives.

:boink:

 

[jugodegolf]

Use Seagate's 5 year warranty to replace it.

Hard drives die. Big deal. You did have an off site backup of important data, right?

Lol. after katrina don't really have anything supra important.:biglaugh:

 

[iwannadie]

:boink:

Just dont forget to check/update the dvd backups. Any media can fail, just keep them fresh.

 

[Justin]

heh, I had a Maxtor drive fail... no backups of the data or anything. It was really strange problem. I can't remember the details of the issue, but for some reason I thought the only problem was the circuit board, not anything internal.

I searched ebay for about a month before I found the same drive, same specs, everything. (It was a pretty old drive)

I bought it for about 40 bucks, swapped the circuit board, and holy shit that drive fired right up again. I was pretty excited about that

 

[jugodegolf]

heh, I had a Maxtor drive fail... no backups of the data or anything. It was really strange problem. I can't remember the details of the issue, but for some reason I thought the only problem was the circuit board, not anything internal.

I searched ebay for about a month before I found the same drive, same specs, everything. (It was a pretty old drive)

I bought it for about 40 bucks, swapped the circuit board, and holy shit that drive fired right up again. I was pretty excited about that

the local pc place keeps the old drive for same thing.

no worries just keep movin on.

 

[Jaguar_5]

I like Hitachi's as well

http://www.storagereview.com/
And make backups like others mentioned

/end thread

 

[Fuzz420]

i love my seagates, they been good to me over the years.

Now 14 months is about right, externals dont last very long, at the 8 month mark you should prepare to back up the whole drive.

 

[Syris]

Ive had pretty good luck with Western Digital

 

[SupraDerk]

I've never had a harddrive fail. I have however had a jumpdrive (which contained 2 months of freaking coding for my senior design project!!!) fail on me though :madfawk:

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Always back it up on another flash drive and a hard disk.

 

[drunk_medic]

Over 15 years I have had very few drives fail on me.
1 was a BRAND new WD 80gb drive.
1 was less than a year old Maxtor 60gb drive that started ticking and failing to read/write. They replaced it with one that had a higher capacity.
1 was a Maxtor 850mb drive that failed of old age - 5+ years.
I have a 100mb Seagate around here somewhere that still works.
I am running 2 80gb Seagates in RAID-0. Been over a year - we'll see how they last.
I've had many drives, and fairly good luck over these past 15 years. I don't have anything bad to say about Seagate. Maxtor and WD are luck of the draw.

 

[jugodegolf]

warranty ended 9/17/07:3d_frown:

anyways saved some stuff to disc. Here's a couple good pictures of trip from Vegas to MS. I think the 4th one down was a good kill suped up srt stayed up with me till 140 then bye bye.