Seagates Suck?

[aldan]

ive only ever had one drive go down and it was a wd.truth be told i screwed it up but they covered it anyway.top notch customer service from wd.ive still got 10yr old maxtors in the kids computer and not a problem.my computer is exclusively wd black.

 

[strollin]

I installed my first hdd in 1986 (Seagate 20MB ST-225) and since then I've used just about every mfr's hard drives. There's ones I've used that most on this forum have probably never heard of since they don't exist anymore such as Rodime, Quantum and Connor. My experience is that they will all fail eventually, it isn't a question of IF an HDD will fail but WHEN.

I find it interesting that people on here will condemn a company's entire line of products based on one flop they encountered. IBM started shipping HDDs in 1956 (they invented the HDD) and for many years their drives set the industry standard. One particular model of the Deskstar line had problems and that completely negates the company? Seagate has been producing drives since 1979. They had a firmware issue on a particular model of their Barracuda line. The firmware was updated and made available to users. I have 2 of those drives with the updated firmware and they have been running flawlessly for about 5 years now.

 

[G80FTW]

I find it interesting that people on here will condemn a company's entire line of products based on one flop they encountered. IBM started shipping HDDs in 1956 (they invented the HDD) and for many years their drives set the industry standard. One particular model of the Deskstar line had problems and that completely negates the company?

Like I said, it has nothing to do with the fact that they released a bad product, every company does that at some point, but its how they handled the problem. Denying the problem doesnt make it go away, as they found out the hard way. And the rumor is they knew before releasing it that the drive would fail in a short time because of its design.

 

[Agent Smith]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives

Western Digital Red or Black will do. I had a 340 GB WD blue and that damn thing failed on me in 3 months!

 

[Okedokey]

Backblaze data.

 

[spirit]

Interesting how the Corsair SSDs are rated one of the most reliable there. I remember when doing research for my first SSD (which turned out to be a Crucial M4 in the end) I was reading reviews of Corsair SSDs and the reason I didn't get one was because of the woeful reliability issues - lots of blue screens!

Mind you, that was 3 years ago and my M4 did actually completely die on me eventually making it the only SSD I've owned that has completely died on me.