Seagate HDDs Failing At An "Alarming" Rate

[Buzzy Beetle]

This was just brought to my attention. I'm probably the last person to be able to understand this, but it looks like something incredibly... bad.

Plus, I think I may be one of those who could potentially be affected. Nothing bad has happened to my drive yet, but now i'm really concerned.

Also, more technically able than I would likely being aware of this if they aren't already...

[Araris]

All HDDs fail after time goes by, if your drive hasn't had any issues I wouldn't be to worried. Just make sure you have your important data on a backup drive or flash drive. The 7200.11 drives are by far the most sold hard drives around the world, if the issue was THAT bad they'd be forced to do a global recall.

I've had several seagate drives and to me they seem like some of the best made drives. Although to be fair my main OS partition is on a Western Digital Raptor drive.

[Boss Llama]

That thread strikes me a little overly-paranoid/conspiracy-theoryesque (Company blacklisting a harddrive based on serial number? Please.), but the issue is likely valid. Four days after that thread was started, Seagate acknowledged a firmware bug in the 7200.11's which they claim is minor, but which they jumped all over provided a solution too.

Personally, I don't touch Seagate anymore. Since the early 2000's, they've struck me as going down hill a bit. I lost several Seagates back to back with fatal errors around 2003-2005, and won't install anything but Western Digital now. Haven't had any troubles with my WD's.

[Clay Pigeon]

Apparently there was a problem with seagate's 1 TB 7200.11 drives, and they issued a firmware update to fix them. The update borked other seagate 7200.11 drives.

see:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... 11-failing

Over a month into the problem Seagate had still not come back to customers with an official solution. Despite the company updating the firmware on newer drives, it has issued no recall on the firmware-defective drives that are still on shop shelves. They must be waiting for some grand event to come and go, say a shareholder meeting?

and

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... are-update

Adding insult to already injured customers, there are reports streaming in to our inboxes of users who have attempted the firmware flash and have ended up with bricked drives. Yes. That's right... Paperweight city all over the place. Seagate customers are up in arms.

[mr_s]

WD sucks in my experience.

had an external which failed, so no more WD.

Have had a seagate for a while now 10 years, and the HDD is still kicking strong

[mujo]

I think everyone has their favorites. I've had Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital fail on me; over the course of 15 years.

[Rigges]

OMG are they Really ???




Hmmmm never had a Problem I buy the barracudas and I have a 500 GB and a 750 GB Barracuda

thats what happend with going to 1T and 2T

[Rits]

Speaking of failing hard drives.....mine just died. It was the stock one that came with my computer and wasn't a seagate. But still, I'm out of a computer until I order a new one.


How odd the timing.

[MrBlah]

Seagate = win

[Araris]

Well, I've got one Seagate and one Western Digital. I figured I'd run them both equally and then whatever one fails first is the crappier company, I'll let you all know, good idear eh?

[Dog]

Seagates have always failed on me, since I bought my first Seagate in 1995. So have Maxtors.
Crappy drives --- for me.

Western Digital, while the noisiest drives on the face of the planet, are at least more reliable.

[MasterChef]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="151457"]
So have Maxtors.
Crappy drives --- for me.
[/quote]

I've had two Maxtors fail on me. I'll never again use one of their drives. I can't really say anything about Seagate, I've never used one. But Western Digital has proven reliable to me.

[John Doe]

Did I mention I have 4 seagates on teh list that need the firmware updates..... One 1TB, one 750 and 2 500s.....


So I need to back them up before the update as the firmware update can nuke everything.....sigh, time to buy more disks to backup my backup disks....

[metacide]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="151457"]Seagates have always failed on me, since I bought my first Seagate in 1995. So have Maxtors.
Crappy drives --- for me.

Western Digital, while the noisiest drives on the face of the planet, are at least more reliable.[/quote]

While I've never had a seagate fail on me, I've had Maxtor drives fail on me almost reliably. Which is sad that I can count on a drive to fail.

I have Western Digital for my TB drives. They havent shown any signs of failing yet.. so keep your fingers crossed.

[Mingulator]

My 7200.11 better not fail on me.