I gave up on Western Digital and Maxtor YEARS ago from experience and went to 100% Seagate. I was very happy with them all these years until the past 2 years when their drives started showing up in Wal-Mart with a "Low Price". Since then I've had lots of failures and RMA's. I buy a lot of drives and I only buy the retail version, never the OEM, so I've had a good chance to get bad ones. The problem seems to be a change in their production. Parts made in this country, assembled in another, flashed in yet another.......... Maybe the economics work for them but the quality is failing.
The issue with these particular drives....... The circuit board was flashed, sent to another factory and married up with the wrong drive. From what I understand, the errors start to build up to the point that the firmware locks it out. I was able to TFTP into one of the drives, they are serial after all, and reset it in order to get some info off the drive (Seagate will charge 40 bucks to that for me even though they caused the problem) but it's really getting hard to find quality anymore in PC hardware. That's my rant for the day. Low prices. Always. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Adam Kennedy Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:22 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives Where do you guys buy your drives from that you have had such good luck with WD and not Seagate? Since 1994 I have had countless failures with Maxtor and Western Digital disks. In fact just a few weeks ago I had TWO Western Digitals fail in the same server and they were Raid Edition disks! In my lifetime I have had maybe two Seagate drives fail. It also makes a huge difference, with any brand, what model of drive you buy. If you buy a cheap version of any of them then you are just asking for issues. Western digital I would stick with anything "Black edition" or better. Seagate I would stick with anything XT or better. Avoid the cheapy versions of anything, most of the time those cheapy disks are not tested before leaving the factory. -- Adam Kennedy Network Engineer Omnicity, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:15 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives In 25+ years of experience, Seagates & Maxtors have always been a let down. Western Digital is the best. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: > I've had really good luck with the Seagates for a long time now but > china-mart finally caught up to them. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:08 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives > > Friends dont let friends use Seagates :) > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> > wrote: >> FYI. >> >> >> >> If anyone is using Seagate 7200.11 SATA hard drives (500gb to the > terabyte) >> and have been experiencing random blue screens or lockups, they have been >> having firmware problems for awhile on these drives and you should backup >> your data and send them back to Seagate via RMA. The 7200.11 can be >> usually found on the top left hand corner. >> >> >> >> I've found that even in a raid, they can fail pretty much at the same time >> and thus thwarting the protection of the raid. >> >> >> >> I've talked to one other WISPA member who had this problem (As well as my >> own experience with them - 5 sent back already on my own) and thought >> others may want to look to see what's in their servers. They were flashed >> with the wrong firmware and experience a countdown of sorts then > eventually >> fail. Again, if in a raid, they will essentially fail at the same time if >> installed at the same time. >> >> >> >> I have went as far as RMAing one that showed no issues and they replaced >> that one as well with no questions. >> >> >> >> Robert West >> >> Just Micro Digital Services Inc. >> >> 740-335-7020 >> >> >> >> Logo5 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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