RIP Seagate hard drives

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Rick Bowers <rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2/16/2013 11:30 AM, you wrote:
>>For years Seagate has been my go-to brand for hard drives. But lately I
>>had read rumors that Seagate hard drives above 500GB have severe quality
>>problems.
>>
>>I just bought 3 of these:
>>Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840
>>
>>#1: DOA
>>#2: Starts showing sector errors within 48 hours of first installation
>>#3: Seems ok, but Seagate Seatools fails it on SMART and Short DST
>>
>>So they're all going back to Newegg.
>>
>>I guess I'll order Western Digital to replace them. (Ye Gods! I can't
>>believe I just wrote that. Next I'll be driving a Ford Pinto.)
>>
>>And all the hate toward Ubuntu's server installers the last few days was
>>probably due to Seagate's crappy hard drives instead. I repent.
>>
>>Just wish I could get the last couple of days of my life back.
>
> Well, That is very disturbing. I don't want to have to buy Western
> Digital drives. Every WD drive I've bought over the past several
> years has failed miserably. Usually, they just fail to startup.
> I've lost lots of data when I've backed up to a WD drive only to have
> the drive die. And WD won't replace data under warranty. A complete disaster.

My personal experience over the past 5 years or so has been that
Seagate's quality has taken a nosedive, and WD's quality has improved
slightly, such that WD is marginally better.  Sadly the net is that
overall quality is lower now than its ever been.  There was a time
when I wouldn't use anything but Seagate disks, but those days are
long gone.  Now I use whatever is least expensive, and ensure that I
have reliable backups for anything that I care about.



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