Seagate HDD's and the problems - You still buy Seagate?

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Hiya,

Just curious....there are a lot of issues with the Seagate HDD's lately. So much so, that with my upgrade coming up this year...Im going Western Digital for my HDD's. Im just to scared to buy Seagate incase it stuffs out.

Have so many photos from honeymoon, wedding etc...stuff I cant afford to lose. So Im going the Western Digital route, and opting for something a bit more stable. I know nothing is 100% safe...but recon its a better bet than Seagate.

So anyone else moved on to other HDD manufacturers because of the Seagate issues? Im curious
 
Personally I have moved to WD (black edition)

I spend my life fixing the 7200.11 series, so yes they have issues. A firmware issue to be specific. Which I fix for a small fee... :)

the 7200.12 series is fine, no problems with them.

on a side note, from someone who spends his life listening to people moan about losing their precious info...

BACKUP!! :D

You wont regret it...
 
I have been affected by the firmware glitch.
I will never touch a sh-it-gate again.

HTC_guy... where are you based and how much is the small fee you charge to fix them?
 
Just bought a 500Gb (single-platter too) and 1Tb 7200.12 drives. I'm hoping that Seagate regain my trust
 
I had a free agent extreme 1.5TB, it stopped working after 1 week, I lost all my data!!!

Now i am using another seagate Barracuda 7200.11, which seems ok at the moment.
 
First off, the Seagate 7200.12 does not have any problems. The .11 was terrible.

As for backups, do you have more than one hard drive? Or a second computer? If so, check out Crashplan -> http://www.crashplan.com/

It is free, works on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Basically how it works is you set up a list of folders to watch. Whenever any files in that list changes it does an incremental backup to a destination of your choice. The destination can be online (not recommended in SA), a folder on another drive or any other computer that runs Crashplan that you added to your backup group. The backups are encrypted, so only you can see what is inside them.

I set up my home PC to backup to my other pc and my laptop, while the laptop backs up to the other 2 pcs. Plus I backup to a friend living a few kilometers away via CTWUG :D

My data is safe.
 
kilobitsperyear said:
I will never touch a sh-it-gate again.
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What's gonna happen when the Western Digitals bugger up? Will you never touch a WD again?

So Seagate had a *** time with the 7200.11. But the 7200.12 seems fine. A few years back I steered clear of WD for a year or so because I had 3 drives purchased at the same time that cleared their boot records, etc. I ran Seagates without issue and replaced some with WD during an upgrade (they were free!). Things like this happen during production, there will be a bad batch or glitch now and again. Crap for us though, but if the data is so important then backups should be important too.

Backup your data and do some homework before purchase. 7200.11's been around for some time so anything purchasing it should be aware of what's going on with them..

As for external Seagate drives. Yes, I've had a external stop working in the last year, but it was power source related. If it sounds like it is spinning up, then cutting out and just doesn't want to get going, then you probably have a faulty power supply or some dodgey dry joint in the sealed up casing. Remove the drive and try it in a PC.
 
Nope, have not bought a Seagate since before the debacle. I am also having problems with most of them.

I have only been buying WD and Samsung since then.
 
I have never has problems with a seagate drive - I didn't have a .11 though...

Just bought a .12.

A few years ago our university has about 50+ WD drives fail...

All drive manufacturers will have a bad lot at some point... As mentioned above, trusting a single drive whether it is new or not is just dangerous.
 
After problems with both WD and Seagate I will never buy any other drive than a Samsung.
 
Except in price :D
I have a 500GB WD Black, but price was premium over the regular drive. Would love to have a 1TB Black, but with the Seagate 1TB and regular WD 1TB costing quite a bit less I reckon I'll just have to wait for the Black to drop.
 
I've only ever had SeaGate, never had any problems with them..
 
Yip, and others have had WD with no hassle, but some have had WD with hassle and some have had Seagate with no hassle and some have had Seagate with hassle. It always varies... about the only consistent scenario is that we've all had Maxtor with hassle :D
 
TheRift said:
Yip, and others have had WD with no hassle, but some have had WD with hassle and some have had Seagate with no hassle and some have had Seagate with hassle. It always varies... about the only consistent scenario is that we've all had Maxtor with hassle :D
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After having problems with WD, seagate, maxtor and samsung, i will never buy a harddrive again :rolleyes:
 
Nah... Seagate and the way it has conducted itself with its 7200.11 debacle is the reason I will never give them my money again.

I have since been doing a bit of reading about this... and only when a class action lawsuit was being bandied about did they then acknowledge a problem.

ALL these drives should ALL have been recalled BEFORE more entered into the retail channel. EVERY 7200.11 as a precaution should have been recalled.

But, no. They did not. I did some homework at the time and my drive was cleared. They said it was not affected. Guess what, it is, I have now discovered a firmware update for mine on their site, although their official serial number check so no action required.

Great help AFTER the thing died.

The thing is, they sold these as a backup option with proven reliability and a 5 year warranty... this thing lasted 3 months and was used 13 times in this period. I really thought that 200GB of data sitting overnight would not be an issue...

My box says Seagate. My paperwork says Seagate. It is branded as a Seagate. However, removing the drive reveals an OEM drive from Seagate in a Seagate branded retail product, thus they say... sorry... no Seagate RMA... no chance of us even looking at it... yes, it is an affected model and yes it does sound like it is firmware error related but it is an OEM product so just take it back to the retailer for a swap-out.

No thanks.

I will rather take my chances with another brand and deny them all future revenue just because of the way it was handled. I have indeed learned the hard way. I will purchase another 2 drives and to a mirror thing with the data on them... but NEVER a Seagate again.

My personal experience... it is over and done with...

TheRift said:
What's gonna happen when the Western Digitals bugger up? Will you never touch a WD again?

So Seagate had a *** time with the 7200.11. But the 7200.12 seems fine. A few years back I steered clear of WD for a year or so because I had 3 drives purchased at the same time that cleared their boot records, etc. I ran Seagates without issue and replaced some with WD during an upgrade (they were free!). Things like this happen during production, there will be a bad batch or glitch now and again. Crap for us though, but if the data is so important then backups should be important too.

Backup your data and do some homework before purchase. 7200.11's been around for some time so anything purchasing it should be aware of what's going on with them..

As for external Seagate drives. Yes, I've had a external stop working in the last year, but it was power source related. If it sounds like it is spinning up, then cutting out and just doesn't want to get going, then you probably have a faulty power supply or some dodgey dry joint in the sealed up casing. Remove the drive and try it in a PC.
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