ZeR0BuG Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 How long has your hard drive lasted? My new Western Digital Lasted 1 week before i had to send it back from a catastropic failier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I have one that i need to send back but need something to put most of the data on first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeR0BuG Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 Western Digital is sending out the replacement hard drive first.. and then i have 30 days to get the defective one back or ihave to pay for it.. lol but its easier for me to attempt to recover my data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I have only used Seagates. I have an 80 gig drive that has lasted 7 years now, its in my server, My newer 160 in my main box is about 9 months old now. I plan on getting a 300 or one of there 700 GB drives in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeR0BuG Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 Mines a 250 gig western digital... it started making weird noises... and it like powered off and then back on and i lost some data... after windows crashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 750GB Duelus, at any rate you can buy 3x 320GB for less than the 750GB. So unless space is a factor there not worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Ya, I guess, I may buy 2 300's and do something with raid, that would be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 2x500 GB Seagates, been working fince since episode 8 5x120 GB WD's, working hard all year long 1x160 GB IBM, this one makes me nervous, just from stories I've heard And about another 500 gb worth of misc drives around the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay-Cal Bob Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 im running a 40gb but ill be getting a 160gb here soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I've only had one HD actually die on me (well, my sister after a couple of handmedowns) when it was working on its 8th year or so. All other harddisks I've had either lasted, or got shelved after being replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Zaius Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I've never had a harddrive die on me other than old ~500mb drives from the dark ages that I have lyring around. Although about 4 years ago I did have a nightmare with a 4gb Fujitsu drive... At the moment its all Seagate Barracudas, 1x 80GB IDE, 1x 250GB SATA, 1x 300GB SATA. It's quite surprising really, the 80gig is around 5 years old and has received heavy use for all of that time with multiple formats/partitioning etc. I've always bought Seagate because thats what has been reliable for me, I did have an 80gb IDE Western Digital drive for a while with no problems though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Ooo the pressssious 750 GB perpendicular drives soon (Segate too) Only problem I ever had was an IBM drive and that was a year old (bad cluster - partitioned around it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 What kind of stupid poll options are those? Since the average life of a hard drive is a lot longer than a month it's pointless. I've have a number of hard drives die before. A Maxtor one and a WD one after about 12 and 18 months respectively, I think that was a heat problem as they were in noise reduction enclosures and there was really no air circulation in the case. I've also had 2 laptop hard drives die, or rather had one die after about 2 years and another stop working unless I held the laptop sideways after having it 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I think that was a heat problem as they were in noise reduction enclosures and there was really no air circulation in the case. Have you seen the 'new' trend using elastic to mount the drives in place Why it took so long for someone to do I'll never know Oh and Segate have bought out Maxtor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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