Poll: Poll: What was your first Hard Drive Failure?

What was your first Hard Drive Failure?

  • Maxtor

    Votes: 212 38.4%

  • Seagate

    Votes: 55 10.0%

  • Hitachi

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • IBM

    Votes: 127 23.0%

  • Western Digital

    Votes: 73 13.2%

  • Fujitsu-Siemens

    Votes: 22 4.0%

  • Samsung

    Votes: 24 4.3%

  • Other - Please state

    Votes: 25 4.5%
  • Total voters
    552

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Please vote in the poll, then, if possible, please state the make, model and reason for failure. An example:

Make: Western Digital
Model: Raptor 150GB :rolleyes:
Dead on Arrival: No.

Reason: Probable controller board - drive spun down intermittently, the platters were fine, but it ended up corrupting windows. Quite surprising that after so long dealing with computers, my first ever failure has been a Raptor :D.

Thanks,

Smids.
 
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Wheres the none option? (touch wood) :p

Although I did buy a 2nd hand 74GB Raptor with a strange lag issue during boot when the drive was cold, RMA sorted.

edit: voted other for none
 
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LewisStuart said:
Wheres the none option? (touch wood) :p

Although I did buy a 2nd hand 74GB Raptor with a strange lag issue during boot when the drive was cold, RMA sorted.
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I put it on the list but oh well, werewolf made the poll make sense I suppose ;).
 
Make: Maxtor
Model: Diamondmax 8/9 [Can't remember which] 80GB
DOA: No

Had the drive for around 4 or 5 months when one morning one of its two partitions vanished. Tried all sorts of software to recover it to no avail. Partition Magic detected LOTS of bad sectors and this is reflected in Active SMART too. The other partition, strangely, is 100% OK. Currently going through RMA process.

SiriusB
 
Make: Western Digital
Model: 40GB

Errrr... shorted off case whilst hanging off IDE cables... :D

Make: Fujitsu-Siemens
Model: 12.7GB

Sudden Death.... Unknown why...

Make: Western Digital
Model: 120GB

Partition corrupted taking my music collection with it...

Thus the reason for me building my new killer file server... :)

Ian...
 
I voted Western Digital.

I bought a Raptor off a friend. It would have been fine had he not packed it in just a normal padded jiffy envelope :(

It span up fine and didn't make any weird noises but the Windows XP setup wouldn't recognise the drive.
 
agw_01 said:
I voted Western Digital.

I bought a Raptor off a friend. It would have been fine had he not packed it in just a normal padded jiffy envelope :(

It span up fine and didn't make any weird noises but the Windows XP setup wouldn't recognise the drive.
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Tentative - not really drive failure so much as user error (your friend).
 
Oh yeah, I agree totally, but it's the only drive failure I've ever had :)

Not that I was blaming WD though. I'd love to own a Raptor :(
 
Make: Seagate
Model: 17.3gb version
Failure: Instadeath

Following that, I went IBM just as the Deathstars came into play. Killed two 20gb drives in 6 months.

I don't buy IBM's or Seagate's any more.
 
I think there should be an option for:

None have died

I havent had a HD die, excluding old SCSI HDs from 10 years ago! All my SATA and ATA ones are still going strong!

Conc
 
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