Seagate Hard Drives: There was a recent post about Seagate Hard Drive failures, I did post a reply that stated that all my HDD's were Seagate and I have never had a problem!! That was...

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

There was a recent post about Seagate Hard Drive failures, I did post a reply that stated that all my HDD's were Seagate and I have never had a problem!!
That was the kiss of death - I have had two fail this week, fortunately my last remaining Seagate is still OK so now I don't even want to plug it in.
So I need to buy another brand, any suggestions please.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

johneccles wrote:

There was a recent post about Seagate Hard Drive failures, I did post a reply that stated that all my HDD's were Seagate and I have never had a problem!!
That was the kiss of death - I have had two fail this week, fortunately my last remaining Seagate is still OK so now I don't even want to plug it in.
So I need to buy another brand, any suggestions please.

hitachi has an excellent reputation - HGST.

http://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
http://improvephotography.com/31924/best-hard-drive-for-photographers/
http://lifehacker.com/how-long-will-my-hard-drives-really-last-1700405627
http://www.zdnet.com/article/solid-state-disks-lose-data-if-left-without-power-for-just-a-few-days/
http://the10bestreview.com/top-10-best-external-hard-drives-in-2015-reviews/

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Thanks Jerry, funnily enough I have a very old Hitachi 3.5" desktop drive which still works OK.

RGreenway Loc: Morristown, New Jersey

I also like the HGST drives. If reliability is an important concern look for the "enterprise" class drives. All manufacturers make two or three grades of drives, and the enterprise class drives are usually the best. They have better bearings, and more time to failure on average. Of course, all drives will fail eventually, so back ups are essential!

obeone

I just took two 1TB Segate drives off the shelf to move backup photo files to DropBox. Both fail to start up. Western Digital drives were fine. No more Segate drives for me. Fortunately, I do dual archives and files were also on the WD drives.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

RGreenway wrote:

I also like the HGST drives. If reliability is an important concern look for the "enterprise" class drives.

Definitely!

jiminnee

Years ago I had an external hard drive fail & it took my computer down with it. Can't recall what brand it was.

mlkddk Loc: Colorado

Some time ago I had two sea gates go bad. Raised hell with their customer service because both were still in warranty. I did better talking to myself than what they did. I did not even get a sorry. I managed to recover some of the stuff, but lost a lot of financial backup stuff. I "inherited" a sea gate from an aunt now, but I got her stuff off of it, and use it only as a transfer drive from one computer to another. I will never buy another sea gate, plus be careful because I was told they make for other vendors so even though it is another brand, it was made by sea gate.

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

jiminnee wrote:

Years ago I had an external hard drive fail & it took my computer down with it. Can't recall what brand it was.

Of the several external drives that I have used, only two have sounded the 'click of sudden death): a fantom (~160 GB) and a Seagate 3TB. The seagate was set up for automatic frequent backup (probably that is what did it in). WD, SP and other Seagates performed well.

OlinBost Loc: Marietta, Ga.

I think it is the newer Seagate drives that are causing the problems.

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

johneccles wrote:

There was a recent post about Seagate Hard Drive failures, I did post a reply that stated that all my HDD's were Seagate and I have never had a problem!!
That was the kiss of death - I have had two fail this week, fortunately my last remaining Seagate is still OK so now I don't even want to plug it in.
So I need to buy another brand, any suggestions please.

I use, exclusively, Seagate drives (Constellations, a commercial/industrial drive). Have 1 pair of 1TB drives running for the last 6 yrs. No Problemas. Nearly all of them are running in RAID enclosures (RAID 1 & 0+1). The 4 TB drives (8 of them) are about 3yrs old, Again, No problemas.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

Two in one week is suspicious... did you install new rugs? I zapped one once unplugging it with a static spark- zaps the directory and instantly bricks a drive. I always touch the metal case before i touch a cord or anything since then!

Bushymonster Loc: Oklahoma City. OK.

bought two that have 3 GB each. $49.00 each about three weeks ago. Work great.
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