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
StevenG said:
EDIT: why do they say 300GB? when its 279GB or 200GB and its 186GB? why dont they rate GB's as 1024 megabytes?
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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. :)
 
MAllen said:
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. :)
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I tried to encompass all that in a) but I don't think I was very succinct - a bit too general! :p :D.
 
Only ever suffered one failure (so far, touchwood) - the dreaded IBM Deathstar. I lost tons of video of new baby (still had tapes though thankfully), documents, downloads etc.
 
Mine was a Hitachi Deskstar for my laptop (or was it external HDD?) . Luckily i didnt have too much important stuff on it, unfortunately not the case for my second failed hard disk. Crap connector on external HDD messed up the HDD table info, luckily i salvaged some stuff with a recovery program.

At first, i really missed every bit of data i lost. But when i was failing to recover most of it, i realised how useless a lot of it is. eg mp3s i never listen to, uni coursework, tv shows i'll never watch.
 
Mine was an old WD drive of about 6 gb, I managed to rip it open after it failed for a look inside, curiosity ya know! ... Ironically after all these years of computing and upgrading I rate WD the highest. I have 3 of their drives in this comp right now.

I've owned dozens upon dozens of drives in 15 or so years of computing and only had 2 or 3 failures.

Yup, one of those failures was an IBM deathstar.
 
I had 2 deathstar 40gig die on me withing a week of each other. Got them RMA'd and sold the replacements straight away!

I still have my original HDD - 120mb Seagate jobbie circa 1996. Used to use it as a transfer disc, but it's redundant now. Not a single bad sector :cool:

Actually, I also have a 20mb HDD for my BBC's :D
 
First drive to fail on me was a 75GXP. Techy blokey at IBM said I would probably get a different drive when I RMAed it. I got another 75GXP which failed after two days. When I RMAed it I got another 75GXP, third one couldn't die well it arrived dead! fourth one, yet another 75GXP, at this stage I decided to flog it and no one wanted it so it's still sitting in it's box. What did I replace it with. A 60GXP[It was very cheap and now I know why]. IBM can't make all crap drives, yes they can. After a few months the 60gxp failed, the one it was replaced with failed after a few months and the one it was replaced with is in a usb/hdd case and has been used a few times, this evening it was connected to my pootter and it was scanned by the antivirus prog, I came up stairs and the drive is going zigga zigga ahhh, so I take it's shagged...
 
Deathstar 75GXP here, 15GB one gave me the click of death after 18 months or so, accompanied by random spindowns.

Next one was a 60GB seagate which gave a bunch of errors then shut off. I gave it 10 minutes and it was fine after that.
 
Years back, I had a 12gb Fujitsu and a 10gb Seagate, the Fujitsu was probably about two or three years old and was on its way out, so I replaced it before it died with a 40gb Deathstar. Didn't have the cash for a huge one but it did the job. About three months later, I ran out of space so I got a 60gb one as it seemed to be working well and they were cheap. The they both failed a month or two after the year's warrenty ended. The 10gb Seagate is still running in an old PC, but the Fujitsu died in it around the time of the IBMs.
Used plenty of Seagates, Western Digital and Maxtors and never had a problem with 'em. A mate had a Maxtor die, and everyone I know who had an IBM has had it die within about 2 years (6 drives - a local shop had them on special.)
 
smids said:
Holy thread revival batman - I wondered where this had got to :D.

~400 votes cast - nice spread really.
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I think this thread is very useful for people deciding which hard drive to buy. There's nothing worse than trusting your precious data with an unreliable hard drive! (yes yes, I know that you'll have a backup too, but it's much easier to buy a fairly reliable drive to start with!)
 
smids said:
Holy thread revival batman - I wondered where this had got to :D.

~400 votes cast - nice spread really.
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Its like saying hi to an old friend...

Not had any problems since I last posted :D

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Uh-oh :eek:...

/me runs off to touch wood...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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