Ernest Burden III Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I often work from a client's office on my super-wonderful laptop, and use my workstation back at my studio for backup rendering, finding missing old files and such, via GoToMyPC. Yesterday the machine went black. I had to go check it in person, and found it had shut off and had increasing trouble re-starting. Looks like a boot volume issue. Today I found this article: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/putting-hard-drive-reliability-to-the-test-shows-not-all-disks-are-equal/ In which it says "the least reliable drives are 1.5TB Seagate Barracudas that are nearing four years old on average, with an astonishing 25.4 percent annual failure rate". My drive is 1T, but about that old. Great. Three Seagate drives. It could still be a bad or loose cable or a failing motherboard, but I have to assume the drive is now bad. So where is that Win7 install DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Penaloza Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 This year I had 3 Seagate Hdd failed on me, one of 1T other two 2T each. 2 years a good a little NAS Iomega I had with Seagate HDD also fail after 4 years. So of course I moved to WD with crossed fingers. The only thing I would recommend is have back up everything in different places, I have a NAS server, that also back up in 2 external USB HDD and also in to the cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 This year I had 3 Seagate Hdd failed on me, one of 1T other two 2T each... NOW we learn this. Well I have a not-starting workstation and projects on-going and a big one to start. NO TIME! First thing is to try to boot the machine from a DVD to see if there's more/something else gone wrong than the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numerobis Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I always avoided to buy seagate drives - and WD as well since the only (!) HDD that failed in the last 20 years was an external WD drive. Currently i'm running maybe 20 HDDs: Hitachi, Samsung, Toshiba - and two older WDs (1x internal 3.5" and 1x 2.5" portable) For a long time i have bought only Hitachi and Samsung, but since Samsung is now Toshiba and Hitachi has been bought by WD i have moved to Toshiba. I have 6 Toshiba drives now (4x 3.5" 3TB and 2x 2.5" external) - no problems so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Long live SSD! Now if we can just get those prices down a little further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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