Curse you all, my FUN drive in the file server is a Seagate 7200.11 500GB and it just failed this very minute.
450GB of movies/music/series down the crapper
Back to Rectum tomorrow.
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You can't say that we didn't warm you, Indirectly.
Curse you all, my FUN drive in the file server is a Seagate 7200.11 500GB and it just failed this very minute.
450GB of movies/music/series down the crapper
Back to Rectum tomorrow.
Eish, that's bad
How old was it?Juggy
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I really need to buy a new drive sooner rather than later.
As for the recall - Seagate will not admit the problem on their forums and have even deleted some comments they consider too insulting.
PostmanPot
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Curse you all, my FUN drive in the file server is a Seagate 7200.11 500GB and it just failed this very minute.
450GB of movies/music/series down the crapper
Back to Rectum tomorrow.
Swak dude
Same with me. Let us know how it goes swapping it out, I also need to return mine.
Juggy
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Swak dude
Same with me. Let us know how it goes swapping it out, I also need to return mine.
I will do, taking it in tomorrow so should have it back middle of next week.
In the last year I've also had about 5 x 250 GB of the same flavour fail as well. Time to move to WD methinks.
Should be direct swopout no?
spiderz
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How can you lose 5 if you only had 4
i lost the one drive twice... or rather lost one of the swapped out drives
Juggy
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one of my drives is making a sound similar to a tesla coil powering up, and then makes a clikcing sound.
I hope its not the 1tb Seagate drive I spent R1700 on recently
I hope its not the 1tb Seagate drive I spent R1700 on recently
The_Techie
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one of my drives is making a sound similar to a tesla coil powering up, and then makes a clikcing sound.
I hope its not the 1tb Seagate drive I spent R1700 on recently
Backup your drive ASAP, clicking sounds = bad
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Can anyone suggest tools to check which drive it is?Backup your drive ASAP, clicking sounds = bad
its either my 400gb Seagate that has been left on for weeks at a time.
or my new 1tb Seagate which I've used to move most of my data from my 400Gb drive..and some new extra stuff....
Try MHDD, and be patient.
Thestealth
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There's also good ol' SpinRite if you have it. I recently ordered a 1Tb and I specifically requested a WD, just because of all of your experience in this forum with Seagates (my previous favourite). Thanks guys!
PostmanPot
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Seagate software is decent. Seatools I think.
I bought a 320gb seagate about 2 years ago thats also giving problems. It crashes the pc every now and then normally only when I write to that drive. After reboot windows always tests that drive for errors on startup. So I know its definately my Seagate.
But I find the sata/power connections on the seagates to be really crappy, cause if I fiddle with the connectors the drive runs perfectly again for a while.
But I find the sata/power connections on the seagates to be really crappy, cause if I fiddle with the connectors the drive runs perfectly again for a while.
Your drive will not be part of the troubled 7200.11 series but it does look like Seagate are cutting corners somewhere.
From now on I'll stick with Western Digital and Samsung.
Any of you guys doing an effort to keep your drives cool? I have fans on mine, cause they get extremely hot. And something tells me that this prolongs the lifespan. 
Any of you guys doing an effort to keep your drives cool? I have fans on mine, cause they get extremely hot. And something tells me that this prolongs the lifespan.
What temps are you running at?
Mine are all inbetween 40° and 45° with a 120mm fan on 3 of them and a Vantec VTX on the Raptor - yet it still sounds like an anvil in gravel when writing or reading from the drive.
I haven't checked the temps, but I work on the "touch temp" and it is a lot cooler since I have added a fan.