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Seagate..the 2nd shittiest HDD manufacturer.
rheffera:
--- Quote from: paul_vash on August 26, 2010, 03:03:14 AM ---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?
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863
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I have already looked at seagate for firmware and CC1H is the latest. the firmware download they do have will brick my drive, according to seagate
mgz:
i just grabbed 2 750 gig seagate drives about a year and a half ago they have been running 24/7 since then with zero issues.
My paranoia has prevented me from buying drives 1tb and larger currently as it seems like they have slowed down their advancement in this area and in the back of my mind i just keep thinking aw man if i buy a drive that big i just know its bound to fuck up.
Also another thing ive noticed is with WD and seagate both they have the cheap models and the more expensive version that is barely better but the extra 20$ per drive usually makes it go from 2.5-3.5 eggs on new egg with like 1000 ppl reviewing to 4-4.5 with roughly same amount of reviews.
But i have no actually proof just my own concocted speculations
x5ga:
I have a Seagate 1TB external desktop drive, it started giving I/O errors after about 1 month after i bought it. Searched around for their support forums for ideas. Reformatted the drive (lost 1TB of anime) using a 64kb cluster size this time (it was the default 4k at first). Drive worked perfectly for another month, then failed agan: I/O error. Reformatted again (lost another TB of anime) using exFAT instead of NTFS and a ginormous 256kb cluster size. Reallocated sector count: 9208. Drive works now, but stutters on reading some of the files. Seagate disks suck ass. Never had a problem with the rest of my hard disks, which are all WD, one of them being from more than 5 years ago and I've been seeding torrents off it since then 24/7. Western Digital makes the best disks.
mgz:
--- Quote from: x5ga on August 26, 2010, 08:51:54 AM ---I have a Seagate 1TB external desktop drive, it started giving I/O errors after about 1 month after i bought it. Searched around for their support forums for ideas. Reformatted the drive (lost 1TB of anime) using a 64kb cluster size this time (it was the default 4k at first). Drive worked perfectly for another month, then failed agan: I/O error. Reformatted again (lost another TB of anime) using exFAT instead of NTFS and a ginormous 256kb cluster size. Reallocated sector count: 9208. Drive works now, but stutters on reading some of the files. Seagate disks suck ass. Never had a problem with the rest of my hard disks, which are all WD, one of them being from more than 5 years ago and I've been seeding torrents off it since then 24/7. Western Digital makes the best disks.
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external drives in general are pieces of shit usually. They often give you the shittiest drives they have and well the power supplies for them is completely separate issue.
fohfoh:
I have never liked seagate from the moment they picked up maxtor. However, their <1TB drives are generally still ok.
However, I've had flawless performance from Samsung...
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