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
This thread is so old that Maxtor was a company in it's own right. Now it is owned by Seagate and will be used as a brand for "cheap" products. Which is a pretty accurate description. (Got another dead 2003 Maxtor from a customer sitting on my desk at the moment....)
 
Probably guess who I voted for ;)

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EVERY faulty drive I've owned or repaired/upgraded people's PC's has been a Maxtor. Owned IBM (60GB and 120GB Deskstars which still work) Quantum, Western Digital, Seagate, Conner, Micropolis, and a couple of others from ESDI era.
 
Only one and it was my 1st ever HDD in my own PC

Fujitsu - 40gb and i read about the chipset being faulty when i searched it. after about 18months use. After reading about it and saw a newspaper article on it or something.

Since then

Maxtors (160gb's) , WD's(160gb's) Not a prob. and IBM 80gb and all alive and kicking.
 
I voted for IBM as that was the only properly knackered one I had, 40gigger around 5.5 years ago.

However I also have a 2.1gig Quantum drive which stopped working for a while. I think I was too much of a n00b at the time to sort it out with diagnostic utilities etc.
 
Some of the makes I've had fail don't exist any more. I remember 10MB (yes, I do mean MB) full-height 5.25" MFM drives that we used to order from stores in pairs as there was a chance one of them wouldn't be DOA. There was a whole batch of 40MB half-height 5.25" Micropolis RLL drives that were so prone to failure we replaced them without even trying them. More recently there was a batch of 20GB Seagates supplied in Dell PCs to a public library that all failed within warranty. Drive reliability is enormously better these days which is why the manufacturers can offer 3 & 5 year warranties.

Jonathan
 
I will not vote in the poll, but

Drive:Seagate 80GB SATA
Reason: I put it in a friends PC and it caught on fire. Literally! It went with the PSU - Qtec - and a cathode. :o
Return time:4 working days, 1 day to their debot, 1 day to send it to a 3rd world contry, 1 day to look at it and send it 2 days in shipping.
 
Trifid said:
I will not vote in the poll, but

Drive:Seagate 80GB SATA
Reason: I put it in a friends PC and it caught on fire. Literally! It went with the PSU - Qtec - and a cathode. :o
Return time:4 working days, 1 day to their debot, 1 day to send it to a 3rd world contry, 1 day to look at it and send it 2 days in shipping.
Anyone notice the key word in there... Qtec? Mmmmm.. toasty. I have heard of "burning in" hardware... but that is a bit too literal!! :p :D

Quality RMA support from Seagate though. Especially as the fault probally wasn't theirs. :D
 
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MAllen said:
Anyone notice the key word in there... Qtec? Mmmmm.. toasty. I have heard of "burning in" hardware... but that is a bit to literal!! :p :D

Quality RMA support from Seagate though. Especially as the fault probally wasn't theirs. :D
Yeah, I'm thinking the Q-tec killed it there...
 
Make: Western Digital
Model: Raptor 74GB (1st Gen)
Dead on Arrival: Yup.

Dead out of the box. Replaced by OCuk with no problems. Second failure was 2.5" 80GB Samsung. Only survived 18months in a portable caddy. A valuable lesson in backing up often.
 
Make: Maxtor
Model: DiamondMax Plus9 80GB 8MB Cache IDE
Dead on Arrival: No

Reason: Drive died while at Windows desktop. Used Maxtor's PowerMax v4.06 to run diagnostics with it in another machine, as it didn't support nVidia chipsets. Reported error Y31S57, so was RMA'ed.
 
No hard drive failures in 18 years of PC Hard drives, then BAM, in 2006 two Maxtors Diamondmax 9 200Gb's of a different batch went down within a week.

One simply cooks itself no matter how many fans, the other has spindle and "sticking head" sounds...
 
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