Something else that many people gloss over or do not know, is that most HDs from small retail vendors (Newegg, Walmart, TigerDirect, et al) have been picked over already by larger corporations, failed the QA, sent back to $.Manuf, Pass their QA, and sent into the retail chain.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: > Same goes for the Seagate SAS drives, as well. I only had need to buy 4 of > them. One was DOA. 2 died after less than 6 months of use and the other > went a whole 2 years. Not good. Gave up on the SAS. > > I gave 3 of them away to a customer to upgrade his autocad server and the > other is here at the bottom of my pile. > > Big $$$ waste. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of jp > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:10 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives > > Long time ago, I got burned bad buying IBM deathstar drives. IBM is a > good conservative choice right? > > Seagate has long been the troublefree conservative choice. I still > prefer seagate and consider them a somewhat safe bet, despite the race > to zero quality in that industry. However, some of their newer drives > are less reliable based on other people's experience with them. > > I have tried samsung twice over the past couple years. Disaster. 1 DOA, > 1 died in no time. I gave away the first replacement drive. Didn't > bother to RMA the second. > > Recently bought some western digital 1tb 'green' drives. 1 was DOA. 1 is > working in a server. I relegated the replacement drive to a techdesk > desktop machine. > > I've got a cart full of old hard drives (must be at least 80 of them). > About half IBMs, half seagate and others. If I take a 40-80gb drive out > of a machine, it's not worth my while to securely wipe out the data and > sell it, so they just pile up. Someday I'll play dominoes with them or > make something one of a kind with a tig welder. > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:07:38AM -0400, RickG wrote: >> 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! Join today! >> > http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> > >> > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> > >> > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> > >> > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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