Hard Drives Keep Dying

azzidodabass

azzidodabass

azzidodabass

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Hi

I am having issues with my hard drives. I have replaced about 4-5 drives over the last 2 years.

I mainly use Western Digital Drives. I have 3 internal drives and 5 external drives (2 Western Digital Mybooks and 3 in IcyBox USB caddies). I am having constant problems with hard drives failing. I have replaced 3 WD drives internally, a Hitachi internal drive and now a WD drive in a USB caddy looks like it has snuffed it.

The only thing I can think of that could be causing this is an electrical issue, but I have seen no other evidence for this.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
People will tell you different things but my experience with WD hasn't been the best, including drives that have been shipped with broken firmware and several that broke within a year or two or purchase - both my brothers have had similar issues. On the otherhand my experience with Seagate has been excellent, even when I bought one of the drives with reported high failure rates. I've only ever replaced Seagate drives when I outgrew them, typically 4-5yrs after purchase and they didn't show any signs of failure. Still, that's only my personal experience and many others will tell you the opposite.

As for the possibility of an electrical issue, you should definitely be running your system through a decent surge protector. As long as you're doing that then I'd suggest that any issues are unrelated.
 
I dont think branding makes much of a difference. I had 2 seagate drives that lasted about 4 years before failing. Ive had a samsung drive fail after 3 months.

At the shop where we work, we use hitachi, samsung, wd, seagate mainly and none are any more reliable or unreliable. Luck of the draw i think.
 
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