Is the Seagate 7200.11 the new "deathstar?

I don't think the 7200.11 series could ever be as bad as the old "Deathstar", but they would easily be in 2nd place. I've bought from multiple sources and had too many failures, luckily the replacements were from the 7200.10 series which have been rock solid for me.
 
We dont know that yet as the Deathstar took time to die! First few months of release the 7200.11 were considered rocksolid rebillity wise... its only now we getting loads of probs.
 
I read this, and I read about the samsungs packing up, so I take it WB currently have the best `perceived` reliability right now?
 
Firegod said:
Hi mate

I wasn't trying to be awkward, just in case you thought I was being. Just thinking if it was something else that's all. :) Obviouslyi it's not though from what you've just said. :(
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Yeah, that's fine, I know you weren't!

Just a shame, glad I backed up.

I replaced it with a 1TB Sammy but there are some reports of those going to poo now. I think i'll stick to WD as I always have in the past, never had one fail yet.
 
MagicBoy said:
*Cough* Hitachi

Agreed. Looking at replacing my pair, not sure what to get. Samsung F1s had an iffy patch when new which leaves WD and Hitachi. I'm thinking Hitachi.
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oops I mean Hitachi (still IBM to me)

My local computer shop which is a major etailer for the UK, their returns department say they would not touch a spinpoint, but If you want something ultra reliable go Hitachi - my not be the fastest but they just work!
 
lay-z-boy said:
Lost 3 500gb 7200.11's over the past 4 weeks, 2 just randomly died the other made circular saw noises and took me a while to work out it was the hard drive making the noise, by then it was too late and it had broken.
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I have a 7200.10 making the circular saw noise ... It's stupidly loud after being on for a couple of days. Just use as an occasional drive for testing systems these days.

Sadly was removed from a Lacie big disk a couple of months before the fail so no warrenty...


Still 500's are cheap as chips

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One more failing Seagate. I bought a 500GB 7200.11 a couple of weeks ago and it's showing problems already. It spins up and the BIOS detects it fine, but once Windows has booted there's only a 50% chance the drive is picked up. The three other drives in the system (2x WD and a Samsung) work fine, so not a system issue.

I'm debating whether to send it to Seagate or just bin the thing. It's a hot, noisy piece of trash, not sure I actually want a replacement :(
 
DrBombcrater said:
One more failing Seagate. I bought a 500GB 7200.11 a couple of weeks ago and it's showing problems already. It spins up and the BIOS detects it fine, but once Windows has booted there's only a 50% chance the drive is picked up. The three other drives in the system (2x WD and a Samsung) work fine, so not a system issue.

I'm debating whether to send it to Seagate or just bin the thing. It's a hot, noisy piece of trash, not sure I actually want a replacement :(
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RMA is - get a brand new sealed drive - sell as new on ebay - get some money - by WD!
 
You could've posted this about any hard drive manufacturer/model and you'd probably get as many replies with failures. Is the reason I now run a RAID5 setup, so i've at least got some backup and anything super important is backed up to DVD.
 
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