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
semi-pro waster said:
I'm still not convinced that Maxtors are as bad as all that, they do have the highest number of failures out of all the hard drive manufacturers on the poll but it doesn't take into account the numbers sold or the amount of otherwise happy customers. People being naturally more likely to complain about problems than praise good service means that you don't often hear about what a company has done right.
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This doesn't detract from the fact that the Hitachi is probably the best all round drive out there. One of the cheapest and most feature rich. TBH, those seagates are probably a bad batch if both were DOA.
Also, IIRC seagate are the oldest in the list and one of the most popular yet they only have 1/3 of maxtors.
 
Oh well ;)
The primary drive that these were supposed to supplement is a 200gb SATA Maxtor, and this works perfectly. Only Hitachi I've come across is a laptop disk- Quiet but slower than the Toshiba it replaced.

-Leezer-
 
Hmmm. No failures for ages and now one of my nice new Raptor 150's has gone. :rolleyes:

Just clicked and refused to detect in the BIOS.
 
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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you probably needed the SATA drivers during windows install. :confused:
 
Jiffy bags and hard drives don't mix. I remember the first ever hard drive my mate ordered. Courier handed it to us in a jiffy bag. It had probally been bouncing around inthe back of his van like that. When we installed it, we knew something was wrong. The noise was horrendous. And the vibration made the case walk across the room!!

Vibration was actually so bad that it still moved when I sat on it!! I think something was a little off centre inside. LOL :D
 
Maxtor 80GB died on thursday, first time a hard drives died on me.

Never used any other make of hard drive in my pc and this is the first problem i've had with maxtor.

Not sure on the cause, it happend without warning straight after I overclocked my pc.
 
smids said:
You do have 4 tbh...
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Yeh. Have run with 4 disks in both my workstation and server for a while. I tend to loose a disk every year or two, but it is all backed up and like you say, it is pretty inevitable. :(
 
i voted maxtor

2x 160gig drives, dying after a few months on a Nforce4 board... First drive worked fine for almost a year on a VIA board however...... so i partly blame the SWIDE drivers for killing them, because the 2nd drive only died AFTER installing SWIDE drivers



however my first failure was infact a fujitsu... although that was more a DOA
 
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Another Maxtor here. 80GB Ide model. Got it from OCUK 20 months ago. Now looks as though it is failing. Did not even have heavy useage. Symptons are first it kept forcing a consistency check now I cannot get most of the data off as it says unreadable files/folders.

Deleted the partition and am now reformating to see if it makes any difference as sometimes apparent drive failures are just caused by the partition needing to be deleted+full reformat.

If it fails for good will be my first HD failure in over 13 years of PC gaming!

Never gonna buy another maxtor again anyway as too noisy/slow.
 
Seagate 8gb, lost my entire MP3 collection at the time, I was on dialup so rather annoyed ;0

Then the 7 other 8gb Segates I had all failed one by one.

Lost two IBM Travelstar from laptops, one seagate cheetah 15k, one IBM GXP75.

I have used 25 x 20gb and 10 x 60gb Maxtors in builds going back up to 5 years, not a single one is dead and many are being used in 24/7 applications.
 
Lost two seagates (small, old ones), and a WD2000JB-00EVA0 so far (died within about a month of ordering due to a suspected head servo failure). I have about eight 200GB WD in various conditions, and two or three more are showing their age now (some of the eight are the replacements for these). Also got a Maxtor with a load of bad sectors, but it still lives.
 
I voted for other a few weeks ago as i had never had a HD break, however a 3.5 year old WD 80gig 8Mb cache just died on me. It had a fair run being used in my PC for about 3 years as my main drive then replaced by a raptor and retired to my server, is a shame as most of the media on it wasnt backed up, hasnt put me off ordering a new 320gig IDE WD though as they seem the best GB per $.
 
Just a conclusion to my saga :D
Both Segate drives were faulty, one with a bust controller board, and the other riddled with so many bad sectors it did nothing. Recived the Maxtor replacement this morning- Worked first time, no probs at all. It also seems to be quieter than the other (Identical model, slightly earlier firmware) Maxtor in the system.

-Leezer-
 
I was building a PC for someone the boss knows one Saturday and had just ran Power Max, we had just finished lunch - paid for on Saturdays :) the PC suddenly died I checked all the connections and switched it back on. It was working when smoke and sparks started pouring from the controller board.
 
Only 1 failure for me , it was an IBM 60gb (one of the safe ones after the deathstar range) it lasted just about a year.
I was running 2 in raid0, one started clicking and sometimes wouldn't be detected so I backed everything up RMA'd it flogged it's partner and sold the RMA replacement when it turned up.

I still have one of my first ever drives, a 120mb western digital caviar. I span it up last last summer for chuckles and despite it being 12 years old and spending the better part of 5 years in storage (at the back of my sock drawer) it still worked. It was full of the finest DOS games of the mid nineties and some classic porn.
 
IBM Deskstar 20gb - failed straight away.

kept trying to spin up but would stall, then try again and stall. It just kept doing this constantly.

I've had two maxtor diamondmax plus9's go T*T's up on me also.

They did'nt fail straight-away, but within a week on both.
 
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