Which manufacturers drives have failed on you?

[ViperXTR]

some very old fujitsu, samsung and seagate drives, they operated at more than 6-8 years before totally failing. Current Seagate and Maxtor drive is still in business tho, (running since ~2004/2005)

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I vote to remove you for being asinine

I guess you thought i meant literally find the most reliable, well dah mate, you think i don't realize a poll like this wont do that.

I picked the most common drives for the poll, i did not think to put ssd's in the poll, feel free to make a asinine ssd poll of your very own though.

Now get out of my thread if you are gonna crap in it.

So this isn't to identify brand reliability? Good, cause it can't. The first post doesn't reflect that though, and that of course begs the question just what is the purpose of this thread?

 

[MilkyWay]

All brands can fail, i dont really see one more reliable than the other.

Only drive i had "fail" was a Samsung that was DOA but i got it replaced and i got my money back. I used to buy Maxtors years ago and those drives where fine, i even considered getting a Maxtor storage drive when they where just rebranded Seagates back when they bought them.

 

[Chicken Patty]

All brands can fail, i dont really see one more reliable than the other.

Only drive i had "fail" was a Samsung that was DOA but i got it replaced and i got my money back. I used to buy Maxtors years ago and those drives where fine, i even considered getting a Maxtor storage drive when they where just rebranded Seagates back when they bought them.

I currently own Hitachi, WD, Seagate, and a Toshiba I believe. None has failed and they are all over a year old, some 4+ years. One WD died but it was because it feel down my stairs...

 

[MilkyWay]

I currently own Hitachi, WD, Seagate, and a Toshiba I believe. None has failed and they are all over a year old, some 4+ years. One WD died but it was because it feel down my stairs...

Excactly.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

So this isn't to identify brand reliability? Good, cause it can't. The first post doesn't reflect that though, and that of course begs the question just what is the purpose of this thread?

Which drives have failed on you? there is a purpose as far as i can see, to see which drives have failed on people.

Ok i get it cant show reliability, i didn't think about that when i worded the original post, but i'm not dumb enough to think it can show reliability.

Now get off my case you intelligence natzi's

 

[Melvis]

Out of all the HDD's that have gone through my hands, its mainly Seagates that i have had to replace.

When it comes to my own personal HDD's again Seagate died and within 6weeks of use including my friends brand new 1TB drive.

All of my WD drives including the ones that my dad uses, my Brother uses and the ones i have sold are still working. And half the drives i have a second hand, so that speaks for its self.

I will still buy Seagates but only if i have to, otherwise im sticking with WD.

My very first WD drive started to die as it was running VERY hot ( 70c ) most of its life untill i put two HDD fans under it. It started to mess up and give me errors so i put it to the side, after 3 yrs of use i think. 2yrs later i pulled it back out and installed XP back on it, still running good today lol. Cant kill it.

 

[Drinu276]

Dane-Elec drive, 1.5TB, horrible transfer rate, died after 2 weeks

 

[BlackOmega]

I've never had a drive totally fail. The only one that's close is an OE Dell Maxtor from my old Dell (2001). It's not totally dead, but it fails most HDD benchmarks and tests.

Other than that, I haven't had any die on me. *knocks on wood*.

I've had, or still have, Seagates, WD's, and Samsung.

 

[Drone]

wd and seagate

 

[Widjaja]

Ultimately this poll will be based on whats most available and possibly what HDD brand manufacturers of pre-built machines are usingat a certain time.

Personally I have not had a HDD fail on me besides other people negligence or my own.

With customers, when I first started working as a computer tech, Hitachi 2.5" Travelstars were often replaced.
Now I rarely see travelstars and it's pretty even between Seagate and WD.

 

[Jetster]

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB That im getting warnings in windows 7 now. Smart data shows Failed relocated sector count.


Can you reset the smart data. Maybe Ill see if I can return it its only a year old

Edit: Just got an RMA for it. Will see how it goes but the RMA process was fairly straight forward. Error code from the Seagate tools

 

[DIBL]

I agree WD is crap. Ive seen at least 10 go bad before 2 years. Ive never seen a Sansung go bad yet

Funny, I hear that said, but all my evidence (OK not THAT huge a list) goes the other way. The other day I pulled an old WD-153BA out of the drawer and installed Bodhi Linux on it, just because I needed an IDE drive to experiment on.

I also have a pair of WD-740s that ran Win XP daily as a mirrored RAID from spring of 2004 until late 2010 when I chickened out and decommissioned them. But they still boot whatever OS I put on them for test purposes -- I see no signs of problems.

The pair of WD-1002FAEX drives that are running a BTRFS filesystem 24/7 on my Linux machine are about to turn 1 year old, and they've never burped either.

And then there are about 3 of the WD-1500 Raptors in my family, running Win XP or Linux. They go back a few years too. So, I buy WD drives, and can only scratch my head at the reports of problems.

 

[Jetster]

Funny, I hear that said, but all my evidence (OK not THAT huge a list) goes the other way. The other day I pulled an old WD-153BA out of the drawer and installed Bodhi Linux on it, just because I needed an IDE drive to experiment on.

I also have a pair of WD-740s that ran Win XP daily as a mirrored RAID from spring of 2004 until late 2010 when I chickened out and decommissioned them. But they still boot whatever OS I put on them for test purposes -- I see no signs of problems.

The pair of WD-1002FAEX drives that are running a BTRFS filesystem 24/7 on my Linux machine are about to turn 1 year old, and they've never burped either.

And then there are about 3 of the WD-1500 Raptors in my family, running Win XP or Linux. They go back a few years too. So, I buy WD drives, and can only scratch my head at the reports of problems.

To be honest I may have exaggerated a little. Plus the system I work on all have WD drives so its the majority of my work. I was just pissed that again I was looking at another WD drive not working. Also there not my drives so who knows what torture they had to endure. So in looking back at my original statement of 10 failed WD drives in two years it probably was more like 5 out of 40 or 50 drives I saw in that time.

 

[IlluminAce]

Hard drives are truly incredible pieces of equipment. Inside those unassuming boxes are a collection of platters thinner than CDs, piled high; one on top of each other, each packing incredible densities of bits.

By the grace of their ever-ready stepper motor, they all spin anywhere between a speedy 5,400 and a stunning 15,000 times each second. Arms caress these delicate plates, supporting read/write heads which hover precariously - less than a hair's breadth - above the shiny surfaces. All this housed in a protective, dust-free atmosphere.

One single speck of dust inside this delicate machine, and the magnetically charged platters will shortly be scratched into disrepair. Just one careless shock to the drive whilst the platters are in motion, and the turning force on the read/write arms will send them scraping into the surfaces of the platters, ruining the heads and destroying the data. Hard drives are such incredibly delicate things, that it's almost a wonder that they work at all

I too never had a drive which died completely. The worse I had was my brothers Western 80GB desktop HDD which after parking its reading heads never un-parked them, they became stuck for some odd reason, so, while the computer was stuck at BIOS waiting for the HDD response, we smacked the HDD sideways to the floors carpet a couple of times, hard, until we heard the heads seeking again. This was years ago, but it never did the same thing again, and I don't expect it too, or else it gets another beating xD

Yet, on occasion, the best cures defy conventional wisdom... I do like tales like this

 

[kyussgr]

This is just so we can see which drives fail the most. You can select multiple options if you have had more than one make of drive fail on you.

This poll will only indicate which hard drives people buy / use the most....
I am a PC builder since the time of Pentium MMX and I've had all kinds of drives dying on me.
If you want the most reliable go for the one with the longer warranty. This usually means that the manufacturer believes in the product.
But trust me ALL drives fail over time. The secret is to have an image of the operating system so that you can restore your OS onto a new drive within minutes, backup your critical data, or store your critical data in a raid 1, 5, 10 array (expensive but hassle free option)....

 

[techspec6]

If I sell you 10 WD drives and 1 Seagate and one of the WD drives dies, that doesn't mean that seagate is better.

Here is a piechart that makes my point even more clear.

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/30dayshare.html

It doesn't matter who you like, dislike or have had a bad experience with. The only way this poll is useful is if you take into account the number of drives sold.

-Jason

 

[travva]

The only drives I ever had fail were old Maxtor drives. One started giving me a click of death, and causing my system to hard lock when it made a certain kind of "TOCK" sound, though in retrospect that may have been my psu but either way, maxtor sucked. i have one seagate drive now and it seems fine.