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I have had two Seagate drives to fail within the past 3 months. I lost quite a bit of data and will look elsewhere for my storage needs. The Goflex 2tb and 3tb are not worth the money in my opinion. Make a backup of your backup.
Actually that name originated when IBM made the Deskstar HDD, before selling the business to Hitachi. Of course, now it's owned by WD.These results are just posted to help push the sales of Hitachi HD's. EVERY Hitachi Hd I ever used has failed on me within a yr. It's a reason those drives were called Deathstars instead of Deskstars.
I totally agree with your assessment. What the failure were and Clifford's statement that knowledge of the operating environment would also be helpful would have rounded out this "research" to the point where it's scientific merit would have been better than what the "story" contains. However, without these crucial pieces of information, this story is, as you say, anecdotal at best.Several years ago we had a thread that stated "heat was a primary destroyed of HDDs. And may I add, that it wasn't as much heat as you'd think it would take to do it.
This thread is pointless for one very simply reason, nobody at home likely has a commercial environment the stresses their drives to the levels used as examples in this press release.
But, more importantly, it doesn't say WHY the drives failed.
That relegates it to useless, anecdotal banter.
For example, lets say Seagate's drives failed because the spindle bearings wore out. Let's say that WD's drives, failed because of head contact with the platters.
With that information at hand, at least an attempted appeal could by made to the manufacturers, to shore up the frailties.
But, "deese drives dun broke", really isn't that helpful,