I've been a diehard Seagate fan but recently I have heard some people having problems with 1TB Seagate drives. At some point the dropping price and the increasing density is going to become a quality issue - perhaps that day is close?
Yes, I lived through the Maxtor problems also. I got a lot less than 3 years out of several. Fujitsu also had a bunch of hard drive issues about 8 years ago. The problem was so severe that Siemens sent techs out to large installations with boxes of replacement drives to do the swap outs before they died in the field in Industrial PC applications. Those retrofits must have cost a small fortune. Is your lathe still happily cutting threads? I cut some axle spindles the other day and the first one off the machine accepted a 1" long - 1"-14 nut perfectly. The pitch was right on. I'm using a 200 ppr encoder in counter mode and the PC has no problem tracking the index at up to 1200 rpm so far. I calculated a 1500 rpm top speed before it loses index sync. Threading has been rock solid reliable so far. I ran out of stock after 7 parts. Dave Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:18 +0000, you wrote: > > >> You must be very lucky. I have a whole stack of dead drives. When a hard >> drive fails it is very often catastrophic failure and you lose >> everything. One day it's working fine, the next day it won't boot. >> > > You must have had the same batch of Craptor IDE drives (Maxtor's) I had. > All failed at 3 years plus a month or two (70 odd in total) a year > since. > > Another thirty PC's fitted with Seagate drives and installed at the same > time are still going strong, as are a handful with Western Digital > Drives. > > I've got a couple of servers with Seagate Ultra SCSI's in that are now 8 > years old and are still working fine. They've been relegated to non > critical tasks and they will get trashed when they eventually fail. > > Steve Blackmore > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
