I bought this HDD previously. Drive was recognized and quick formatted after transferring files to it, it began to reported bad sectors. Using SeaTools tool, it failed all the tests. I tried a lot of things but nothing worked. As I don't live in the USA, sending it back to the company is as much expensive as buying a new one.
Seagate hit with class action lawsuit over defective hard drives
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Gopal Bhat
I've had a couple of Seagate fail on me in the past.
One was a 500GB with the buggy firmware that needed updating. Retailer replaced it via RMA.
The second was very recently. A 3TB external randomly disconnecting and immediately reconnecting itself. Amazon gave me a refund.
Saying that I've got a couple of 1.5TB and a 4TB drive from them going strong. The former has been in use since 2010 and latter since 2013.
I've also have the following with no failures so far.
2x 2TB Samsung (2011)
3TB WD Green (2012)
1TB Toshiba (2013) Client boot drive
1TB WD Black (2013) Client boot drive
2x 5TB WD Red (2014)
5TB Hitachi External for XB1 (2015)
+ some blue and black 250GB/320GB/640GB 2.5" drives in enclosures and X360's/PS3.
I've got a 6TB Red on the way and will be sticking with Western Digital for the foreseeable future and HGST if price competitive.
One was a 500GB with the buggy firmware that needed updating. Retailer replaced it via RMA.
The second was very recently. A 3TB external randomly disconnecting and immediately reconnecting itself. Amazon gave me a refund.
Saying that I've got a couple of 1.5TB and a 4TB drive from them going strong. The former has been in use since 2010 and latter since 2013.
I've also have the following with no failures so far.
2x 2TB Samsung (2011)
3TB WD Green (2012)
1TB Toshiba (2013) Client boot drive
1TB WD Black (2013) Client boot drive
2x 5TB WD Red (2014)
5TB Hitachi External for XB1 (2015)
+ some blue and black 250GB/320GB/640GB 2.5" drives in enclosures and X360's/PS3.
I've got a 6TB Red on the way and will be sticking with Western Digital for the foreseeable future and HGST if price competitive.
Darth Shiv
Posts: 2,371 +886
One of if not the first perpendicular storage Seagate drives?
I think I still have some 500GB seagate drives working, I've hardly had any disks die, usually retired due to small capacity. My favorite for a while were the Samsung Spinpoint drives but they've subsequently sold their HD business to Seagate so will be avoiding those. I'm sure I stuck a Seagate Hybrid disk in my gaming laptop and its not been any trouble so far *touch wood*.
The one I always remember is the IBM Deskstar HD line which had one model, the 75GXP, which had such high failure rates it got the name "Deathstar". Maxtor were disks I also avoided after having many friends report issues with them, which like Samsung HD was swallowed up by Seagate too.
I thought I had some WD Green disks die in a WD NAS (MyBookWorld) enclosure but it was the enclosure that died and the disks are now backup storage in my desktop.
The one I always remember is the IBM Deskstar HD line which had one model, the 75GXP, which had such high failure rates it got the name "Deathstar". Maxtor were disks I also avoided after having many friends report issues with them, which like Samsung HD was swallowed up by Seagate too.
I thought I had some WD Green disks die in a WD NAS (MyBookWorld) enclosure but it was the enclosure that died and the disks are now backup storage in my desktop.
cliffordcooley
Posts: 13,141 +6,441
On that line of thought it was definitely the 3TB drive not the enclosure that went out. I've since put another drive in the enclosure.
Noted, will avoid them in the future.
Another funny story is that I ordered replacement drive for the WD enclosure, it never arrived after paying for next day delivery. After that I bought another Samsung Spinpoint 2TB and a Synology NAS. A month later the delivery company delivered the HD. Must have gotten lost in back of a van. I'd have thought being a month late for a next day delivery the item would have been returned to the sender, Amazon sorted it all out in the end but was not impressed by the delivery company (which went into administration in December 2014).
I also have 3 Seagate 500GB drives which are perfectly fine, 4-5 years doing their work.
G0DofPaiN
Posts: 94 +103
Samsung 160gb hdd - 8 years and still works flawless
seagate 320gb bought 6 years ago for 25%of its price because some noises when writing data, still does the noises and no problems with data, everything works perfect.
WD 500gb 5 years old is flawless, and now I have the samsung 850evo. Only drive that ever failed to me was a maxtor 80gb ide after 2-3years and I also have a 10gb seagate ide hdd from 2000 and still works lol.
seagate 320gb bought 6 years ago for 25%of its price because some noises when writing data, still does the noises and no problems with data, everything works perfect.
WD 500gb 5 years old is flawless, and now I have the samsung 850evo. Only drive that ever failed to me was a maxtor 80gb ide after 2-3years and I also have a 10gb seagate ide hdd from 2000 and still works lol.
alabama man
Posts: 563 +355
At least 3 of 5 the seagates I have owned have failed. Have owned over 10 WD drives, none of them have had any problems. Never bought seagate, they come with consoles and other budget electronics and usually I change them after they fail as I couldn't sell them forward even in working condition with good conscience.
SuperVeloce
Posts: 133 +34
That is sad. I bought many Maxtors and Seagate disks in a 10 years span, last one I bought in 2007. All still works. No wait... there is one 1TB seagate in an external ''2,5 enclosure. It works, for now.
Skidmarksdeluxe
Posts: 8,645 +3,290
"About three years ago I stupidly bought 10 of these 3TB Seagate drives"
For your m-ITX system?
misor
Posts: 1,427 +326
stupid prawn data lost forever...."About three years ago I stupidly bought 10 of these 3TB Seagate drives"
For your m-ITX system?
R
RustyTech
You guys sure have been having rotten luck with Seagate; I've purchased a few over the years and none have failed on me except one that was really really old and which gave me plenty of notice...noise. And every single WD I've owned had failed on me.
Strange, but true.
Strange, but true.
Adhmuz
Posts: 2,343 +1,186
Unfortunately to admit I've only had one Seagate fail on me in all my years, and it was just a bricked firmware error I was able to fix, that drive never failed again and to this day lives on. Since that day it took me until two years ago to give Seagate another try, bought one of the new 4TB drives and it has been in constant use since, I put enough faith in them to buy 3 more and RAID 5 them, at least if one goes I won't be loosing much, except the time to rebuild.
As for WD, I had a 640GB Black fail on me 4 years in to the warranty, ironically It was the only drive I had ever bought an extended warranty for, lucked out and they replaced it with a 1TB unit which had since been reliable, fingers crossed it last. Presently I have two 2TB Greens that are no longer usable, they work, just the read/write speed is none-existent at this point making them as good as paper weights, but for Green drives I had in a 24/7 use scenario I can't complain, ironically they were among the newer of my 2TB Greens...
As for WD, I had a 640GB Black fail on me 4 years in to the warranty, ironically It was the only drive I had ever bought an extended warranty for, lucked out and they replaced it with a 1TB unit which had since been reliable, fingers crossed it last. Presently I have two 2TB Greens that are no longer usable, they work, just the read/write speed is none-existent at this point making them as good as paper weights, but for Green drives I had in a 24/7 use scenario I can't complain, ironically they were among the newer of my 2TB Greens...
Uncle Al
Posts: 10,172 +9,651
Interesting observations from all. I have a simple server in which I run Seagate drives. With the current batch of drives it has been running non-stop for just over 24 months without a failure. Over the years I have only lost one drive due to failure so perhaps I am just lucky or perhaps these drives have more problems with the start-stop nature that most users expose them to???
Not that I'm aware of. WD themselves did buy Hitatchi HD business and Sandisk amongst others...
IAMTHESTIG
Posts: 1,868 +901
Yeah the recertified drives can be a problem. I've had mostly WD drives, but when an occasional one does fail they have been pretty good with the warranty. I had two "recertified" warranty replacement Raptor 36GB drives fail on me. I sent them an email asking for a brand new drive or an upgrade to the 74 GB or whatever size it was, they sent me a brand new 74 GB drive and it has been in my PC over five years now and still running strong. Sometimes you just have to be the squeaky wheel to get some good service. Shouldn't have to do that but at least they took care of me. Seagate flat out refused to "make it right" for me.
That being said, I've had good luck with Seagate Enterprise drives at work. They seem to last a long time. I don't think I've had one fail in warranty.
That being said, I've had good luck with Seagate Enterprise drives at work. They seem to last a long time. I don't think I've had one fail in warranty.
I had 2 750GB Seagate 7200.11 drives. They came with 5 year warranties. I spent more on the RMA shipping than it cost to buy a new drive. Some were replaced with 7200.12 units. All of them failed within 1 year. I eventually bought two 1TB WB black drives. After 3 years they're still perfect running 247. I'll never buy another Seagate product again. Ever.
cliffordcooley
Posts: 13,141 +6,441
That's easy to say when one doesn't need/want more than 500GB for storage or can afford to buy 2TB SSD's. And for the average person that is true, they don't need more than 500GB for storage.
Only the lawyers get anything from class action suits - it will be something like a 9 million settlement - 6 million users each get a $1 coupon & the lawyers get 3 Million.
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