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
i've had two, first one was my 4 gig seagate, it happened as i was installing a cd writer so i could back up my stuff :rolleyes: lost everything.

2nd was my laptop hard disk, 80 gig hitachi. Went with no warning. only lost some music as everything else was backed up, was still a massive PITA though
 
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Broke, recovered it, broke again, fixed it again, formatted it, took it back to PC World and got my money back in cash - had it about a year during which storage space had halved in price so went out and bought a WD of double the size, kerching!
 
Make: Seagate
Model: Ancient baracudda 9.4 gigs ( i think)
DOA: no
How it died: Short circuited bottom with another hdd ( both hdd's were hanging on a ide cable , kicked against a western digital wich went on to my seagate, on wich i heard a very odd sound, wich stopepd when i pulled the plug...
Instantly a big smell and a hole in one of the chips on the bottom of the HDD.


Dont believe in (not caused by humans) sudden deaths of hdd's after having owned over 30 in my PC, and over 500 more overall in this building ( parents build&sell pc's) ...
( Dont get me wrong, i had some hdd's DOA, but never dead while worked 1st... )
 
Make : Maxtor (common by the looks of things)
model dnoo old only 38Gb ide
DOA: nope
Reason: just one day failed, i unpluged it to put in a differnt one, put back the old one and it was broken, posibly static when down on carpet
 
Make: Samsung
Model: 20gb spinpoint p
DOA: no
How it died: very slow drive even though it had ata100 and 2mb cache, got slower and slower then developed bad sectors and i decided to move over to a new drive before it caused problems.
Seconds after changed it over i took it out of the machine, the cover was prised off and i had made patterns with a screwdriver all over the platter :D

second drive to go was a 120gb samsung.

guess i just dont have luck with them.
 
I am on Lazarus mode :p


Make: Western Digital
Model: Caviar 250JB
Dead on Arrival: Yes(?)

Reason: I am not sure, could be damaged on delivery, it was a few years ago. The annoying thing was that, I had two 120s, the where full, I moved (yes I am an idiot) everything to the brand new 250, and it died :( I could use it for a few days, without intensive copying, and it would run ok, but in a week it had corrupted everything.
 
make: Maxtor
model: unknown (a Diamondmax of some sort, quite old) - 20GB
DOA: no

Old Maxtor drive that was OEM in a pc from circa 1999-2000. Had been transferred through many different PCs over the years and ended up in my parents' rig, where it failed last year - apparently it made lots of unhealthy noises and scraping sounds. Can't complain at a 7 year lifespan for a heavily used drive, often in cases with limited cooling towards the end of it's life.
 
Technically the first to die was a Hitachi, however this was in someone elses hands by this point (it received a viking send-off). The first to die in my hands was a Fujitsu which just quit on me one day, not recognised in BIOS or anything - it's lying in a box somewhere and I might give it another go some day.
 
Also, the commodity IDE/SATA drives tend to give the big players a bad name, because thats what people tend to associate the manufacturers with, rather than 'proper' drives like the Maxtor Atlas, IBM/Hitachi UltraStar, etc ;)
 
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