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

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
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 .

Thanks,

Smids.

Never had a failure here, other than a DOA IBM 60GB Deathstar (still got the replacement somewhere).

Jokester

Jokester said:

Never had a failure here, other than a DOA IBM 60GB Deathstar (still got the replacement somewhere).

Jokester

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Good point - DOA's - where should I put these..... I'll add it.

IIRC it was a Seagate RLL or MFM drive, a whopping 20mb model that would lose it's calibration if room temperature reached more than about 22c or dropped below about 15c

Wheres the none option? (touch wood)

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

LewisStuart said:

Wheres the none option? (touch wood)

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...

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...

No prizes for guessing lol!

It was a... drumroll.... Maxtor sata 160gig plus9 ncq!

Shame tbh as I still own some d740x's and they are good old drives in their time!
It was those flipping sata ones that caused the trouble imho

I can't remember the brand, but it was an ancient 2gig model that had been spinning around in an old 486 for four or five years.

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: IBM
Model: Deskstar 30gb
Failure: The dreaded Click Of Death

Despite folk boo'ing Maxtor's i've currently got 6 upto 2 years old and have probably handled another 30 or so and only had 3 go down in the last 3 years.

Only ever had 1 drive fail on me... still got the replacement.

Make: Seagate
Model: U8 ST38410A 8.4gb
Failure: Just died

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.

cannot remember the size of the IBM but it got the death rattle
the maxtor 160 gb just died it went no worky

The first drive that died on me was a fantastic 500MB Fujitsu 3.5" affair.
Reason - intermittent detection.

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

IBM 60 GXP Deathstar - need I say more ?