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SoftJock Rick

SoftJock Rick

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First HDD that's crashed on me in ages...

This was a Barracuda 1 TB drive that was in my NAS. It ran 24x7 for just shy of 2 years, and then started making some serious clunking and screeching sounds. No biggie, as it is a RAID box, and was just a mirror drive.

I have no particular favorite in HDD manus, as they're all basically the same stuff inside, so I will lay the blame on Linux, since that's what runs the NAS.


Everything else I have runs a version of Windows, and has Diskeeper running on it (even my Windows Home Server and netbook has it). Never once have I had a drive failure on a machine with Diskeeper installed (knock on wood for S&G)...


Target practice this weekend -- the AK needs a barrel cleaning anyway... :D
 
This is just my opinion and you know what that's worth. WD is far superior to Seagate. I wouldn't touch a Seagate drive. Try a WD 7200 RPM Scorpio Black drive. Once you go Black you'll never go back :triwink::tritongue:
 
The Wizard Of OZ said:
This is just my opinion and you know what that's worth. WD is far superior to Seagate. I wouldn't touch a Seagate drive. Try a WD 7200 RPM Scorpio Black drive. Once you go Black you'll never go back :triwink::tritongue:
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Stop that -- yer gonna give Canute a woodie... :sqerr:


Honestly, there are only a few drive manufacturing facilities on this planet, WD and Seagate are just name brands. Black, green, red, et.al., are just marketing ploys for drives that passed stricter QA. But you have to remember that QA is not done on every single drive -- they pull one from a batch.

Don't get hung up on names... ;)
 
The Wizard Of OZ said:
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Yupper. Sorta like vacuum tubes -- there's only a few places that make them, and they brand them with different names: Electro-Harmonix, Sovtek, and Tungsol, etc, all come from the same machines, in the same factory. Then you have Chinc tubes -- same factory, different names.

It's a worthless endeavor to compare brands of hard drives... ;)
 
Seagate has had very spotty performance on the big drives since they bought out Maxtor. I looked at various chatboards and you can see the pattern for Seagate... some batches run flawlessly while other batches crap out as soon as 30days out with some even DOA. It's like quality control has left the building.

At work every machine we've had with a big Seagate Drive (running Windows XP Pro I might add) have failed. Right now my real-world research say Hitachi for big, TB size drives. When I build my machine a year ago I put in a Hitachi 1TB SATA and so far so good running mostly 24/7.
 
Doug good call

I have a good Seagate but its around 6 yrs old. I had two maxtors prior to that and they both crapped out. The Seagate still works as well as a small Hitachi. My bigger drives are all HD. 2 -500 gig notebooks and the 1 TB newest. All the HDs flawless.
DougF said:
Seagate has had very spotty performance on the big drives since they bought out Maxtor. I looked at various chatboards and you can see the pattern for Seagate... some batches run flawlessly while other batches crap out as soon as 30days out with some even DOA. It's like quality control has left the building.

At work every machine we've had with a big Seagate Drive (running Windows XP Pro I might add) have failed. Right now my real-world research say Hitachi for big, TB size drives. When I build my machine a year ago I put in a Hitachi 1TB SATA and so far so good running mostly 24/7.
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TJtheDJ said:
Flash Drives - no moving parts, no problems... just not up to capacity yet.
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Works great until a sunspot comes along... :sqerr:

Let me know when they figure that part out... ;)
 
SoftJock Rick said:
Works great until a sunspot comes along... :sqerr:
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Thankfully I have three separate external HD's kept in separate locations for all my music, photos and documents.

Rick, what do you mean by that sunspot comment? Was it serious?

And does anyone have experience with those off site back up companies like Carbonite?
 
So I ended up ordering 2 x Hitachi 1TB drives for $55 each (free shipping) -- they got here this morning.

One went in to replace the failed drive on the NAS, and it was synced and mirrored in about 2 hours, so back to full redundancy. It's neat because it's hot swappable -- just pop the drive in, and it does the whole thing automatically :)

The other is in one of my SATA/IDE docks that you just plug the drive into. I'm using it to make a dupe of all my movies and TV series I ripped from DVD, since that took a long time to do...


You can never have too many backups... :)
 
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