Seagate..gotta love em

theleg · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:41

So my new build...two seagate 250gb 7200.10 drive...working fine for the 3 weeks or so ive had em....Turned comp off last night..this morning go to use comp and it doesnt boot...

Check setup and master drive isnt being detected :mad:

Fiddle with cables.change em about...change SATA slots etc...still nothing..

Drive appears dead..damnit!

Is there anything im missing here or has this thing just karked it?

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:43

Possibly died. Did you run a full SeaTools on the drive when you got it - something I always do for any drive to ensure it is fit. Does the drive spin up? If so, perhaps some ESD has killed the controller board.

theleg · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:12

No i didnt

It all seemed to be working fine..I guess you never can tell just by using it though T.T

Yeah it spin up...just not detected...ESD? but this happened overnight and nothin came in contact with it...and no other hardware is acting unusually...

I already ordered a new drive from OcUK...back to samsung for me..

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:30

Bah, I'd still stick with Seagate - it is the best 7200rpm drive out there at the moment, bar none. I know it may be harder for you but believe me, Id had drives fail all over the place but never a Seagate or Hitachi (yet).

3x WD
1x Maxtor.

I'd still use WD though - their drives are good.

squiffy · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:32

Seagate's were unreliable in the past (IDE) and that's left a sour taste in my mouth.

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:35

squiffy said:
Seagate's were unreliable in the past (IDE) and that's left a sour taste in my mouth.

I've got 6 Seagate IDE's from the Medalist through to Barracuda - none have failed - one is 10 years old. It's a matter of bad batches rather than anything else, and just dumb luck. However, statistcally, Seagate's are more reliable, though there is no concrete proof of this.

ByteJuggler · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:28

Balddog said:
So my new build...two seagate 250gb 7200.10 drive...working fine for the 3 weeks or so ive had em....Turned comp off last night..this morning go to use comp and it doesnt boot...

Check setup and master drive isnt being detected
Fiddle with cables.change em about...change SATA slots etc...still nothing..

Drive appears dead..damnit!

Is there anything im missing here or has this thing just karked it?

Check the controller the drive's on hasn't switched itself to RAID mode (if that's possible in your case) for some reason in the main BIOS. It happened once on my machine for some unknown reason. I had a similar fright -- the drive was just completely missing and invisible everywhere, until I noticed the controller was in RAID mode. Switched it back to non-RAID/sata mode and everything was back to normal.

marscay · 19 Oct 2006 at 18:59

seagates are the probably most realiable around, all brands will die however not a lot you can do about that.

Poolybit · 19 Oct 2006 at 19:07

smids said:
However, statistcally, Seagate's are more reliable, though there is no concrete proof of this.

Rob43 · 21 Oct 2006 at 10:37

I've got 2x seagate drives ,one is over 5 years old & still going strong

Never had any problems at all with them

totalllama · 21 Oct 2006 at 13:15

Try it in another machine if possible - that rules out any problems with the pata/sata controller on your motherboard. If its spinning up and not clunking//ticking, mechanically its likely to be ok. If it doesnt show up on the other machine then it sounds like the pcb on the drive as others have said.

Massive Attack · 21 Oct 2006 at 13:38

ive only had 2 seagates and still have them great drives, ive had 4WD 3 have failed and my raptor is on its way so im sticking with seagte for my new drives at the end of the month

DaveyD · 21 Oct 2006 at 15:07

MazdaRX8 said:
wooo 100th post

Which you appear to be spamming to...

snowdog · 21 Oct 2006 at 19:53

DaveyD said:
Which you appear to be spamming to...

lol

Balddog said:
No i didnt

It all seemed to be working fine..I guess you never can tell just by using it though T.T

Yeah it spin up...just not detected...ESD? but this happened overnight and nothin came in contact with it...and no other hardware is acting unusually...

I already ordered a new drive from OcUK...back to samsung for me..

Have you tried it on a different pc (mainbo)?
I'd stick with seagate, much better performance as the samsung ones.
And why a new hdd ? I thought seagate had 5 yr warranty, so RMA?
I personally think its bad luck, i mean ive had a seagate messed up but that was like 7 years ago on a 9.4 gb or something hdd.
Anyhow my advice is to stick with them but that is upto you.

Massive Attack · 21 Oct 2006 at 20:02

DaveyD said:
Which you appear to be spamming to...

That'll teach him, lost 40 posts for it

snowdog said:
Anyhow my advice is to stick with them but that is upto you.

i agree with snowdog here seagate drives are very reliable its unfortunat that yours has broken but thats bound to happen with every manufacturer as i have found out with WD i have had the bad drive batch everytime ive bought a drive so im not buying anymore, 5 drives down the pan is when its time to change to a diff manufacturer imo