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

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what did your's die of?

mine has a smart error in the "seek rate" test.

the drive seems to work fine (its got XP64 installed, and a few games) and doesnt seem to suffer much...

The dreaded spin up, click, spin down, no load. I couldn't bear it!

 

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EDIT: why do they say 300GB? when its 279GB or 200GB and its 186GB? why dont they rate GB's as 1024 megabytes?

Because a) they are stupid and b) can rip off consumers that way.

 

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And C) Marketing people can't count. Engineer's know there are 1024 bytes in 1KB, 1024KB in 1MB, and 1024MB in 1GB. Whereas a Marketing person will count everything in lumps of 1000. So they count 1000bytes in 1KB, 1000KB in 1MB, and 1000MB in 1GB. This then gives then the big rounding error. A rounding error that now is getting to look ludicrous and a misleading confusion.

I tried to encompass all that in a) but I don't think I was very succinct - a bit too general! .

 

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Holy thread revival batman - I wondered where this had got to .

~400 votes cast - nice spread really.

 

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Anyone notice the key word in there... Qtec? Mmmmm.. toasty. I have heard of "burning in" hardware... but that is a bit to literal!!

Quality RMA support from Seagate though. Especially as the fault probally wasn't theirs.

Yeah, I'm thinking the Q-tec killed it there...