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Seagate..the 2nd shittiest HDD manufacturer.

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rheffera:
I hate to say this but i have had so many problems with seagate drives.

2 drives in a row that were DOA.

But i gave them the benefiet of the doubt that i was just having bad luck. Now this.

Seagate 1.5TB, ST31500341AS..Firmw are: CC1H

Problem?

7 reallocated sectors in only 287 hrs of power-on hours. Will seagate take it back?

The only company worse is samsungs 2.5" drives..bought one brand new, died within a month, the replacment did the same, and the replacement for the replacement did the same thing. Samsung's 3.5" are ok though.

What are other peoples experiences like?

nstgc:
They use to be among the best, but yeah, the last dfrive of theirs I bought was sit.

Meomix:
50 Computers, half of them Seagate drives, for the months that passed everything was going fine then 15 days in BAM Segmentation fault
8 days later BAM Cylinder fault
1 month later our third hardisk was making clicking noises.. BAM I/O Error - Actuator Arm Destroyed
11 days later, our computer failed to boot up, our dual hardisk raid was acting funny BAM Both hardrives fail simultaneously - Bad Sector
3 months later our computer was shutting down at random BAM Actuator Collision - Cylinder Destroyed

At this point i was wondering why the fuck Dad kept replacing the failed hardrives with more Seagates; kept making bullshit excuses that it was cheap bla bla bla.

52 days later, my computer kept seizing at random times causing my games to crash BAM Mechanical Fault backed up what i could then reinstalled the system.

In total over the span of 7 months? we lost over 20 hard disks. BULLSHIT DEVICE.

Pentium100:
Wow, I have a lot of Seagate drives, but they are all older than 3 years. Only one had problems at first (bad sectors etc), but I traced the problem to a 1m long IDE cable (IDE cables are supposed to be only 46cm long), I lowered the transfer rate from 133MB/s to 66MB/s and have no more problems since then (1.5 years ago).

One of the older drives has been spinning (24/7) for almost 4 years already (S.M.A.R.T. Power On Hours Count = 34910) and has no problems - http://www.hddstatus.com/hdrepshowreport.php?ReportCode=4730066&ReportVerification=AAE8B857

Maybe the quality dropped only recently, I wouldn't know as I only have old drives.

paul_vash:
Firmware errors are a common problem with the Seagate 1.5TB, ST31500341AS. I was hoping that they had sorted it out by now though.  My experience with Seagate drives have been good, with some older drives I have had a few bad sectors but that is to be expected, I have only had to send one back that was still in warranty ........ so is one out of ten too many?

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