Worst HDD line!

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Come to think of it; the one 20g WD I tried ate itself in two weeks.

Dr. Mordrid

If you'd told me that you had a drive that eat itself without telling me the name I would hawe guessed on WD since it realy sounds like they.....

[dZeus]

I never ever had a HDD fail on me (permanently)... though incidentaly I've got an IBM SCSI drive that's 'clicking' whenever I do multiple read/write actions at once...

since it still falls within warrantee period, does anyone know how to kill it fast?

[KvHagedorn]

Do multiple low level formats til it dies. Then at least when you send it in, no one can recover those sick teen barnyard sex mpgs you had on there.

[dZeus]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Do multiple low level formats til it dies. Then at least when you send it in, no one can recover those sick teen barnyard sex mpgs you had on there.

ssssssssssssshhhusshhhhhhh!!!! Now I won't send you the ones I promised

[Technoid]

Originally posted by dZeus



ssssssssssssshhhusshhhhhhh!!!! Now I won't send you the ones I promised

LOL!

[Novdid]

I've had two Seagates fail on me. Well they didn't fail they started to do this buzzing noise that got on my nerves pretty fast. Actually I almost got a hartattack the first time because I thought I had a swarm of bees in the house.

The model was Seagate U8 20GB if I'm not wrong. The first one started to "buzz" only one day after I got it and the other one 1,5 years after, and that one is currently being shipped to Seagate for an RMA.

[Marshmallowman]

I have had 2 IBM scsi's no problems(very reliable)
and I currently have two IBM 60GXP's in RAID which are working well....BUT

The new 120GXP's are only supposed to be operated for 8 hours a day!!!!.......That line of harddrive must be one of lamest, even if they end up being reliable.(what a cop out)

after hearing that from IBM, I don't think I will buy another one from them for a long while, I think I'll get a pair of 80G western digitals

[dZeus]

hmmm.... my WD 80GB just gave a bad sector on me... this calls for extensive testing with the WD Diagnostics prog

[Marshmallowman]

damn...I have no choice, can you still buy paper tape readers?

[PowerHungry]

I have had bad experiences with Maxtor on their old 7000 series drives. I bought a total of 4 different models, and all models were replaced multiple times. After that, I have owned 6 different models, and 2 have failed, one of which was my fault (damn small desk and hard floor). I've never owned any other brands, except for 3 60GXPs running in my RAID. I hope those dont fail.