5 years warranty for seagate HDs

[az]

Seagate is now granting a 5 year warranty for all consumer harddisks purchased after June 1st.

Just thought I'd let you know

AZ

[Jammrock]

Very nice. Good PR for their hard drives in an ever competative market. That knocked them up a few notches in my book.

Jammrock

[PAugustin]

Yup that's good news !

[ZokesPro]

Looks like my next HDD is going to be a Seagate.

[TnT]

I was reading on FatWallet and one poster believes this is unnecessary because WD drives are so cheap it doesn't matter if they die in a year.

I guess he enjoys loud HDs and backing up his data.

[G400SG16mb]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
Looks like my next HDD is going to be a Seagate.

There must be SO many people saying that right now :-)

But not I, for I have already got a Seagate drive

[UtwigMU]

I actully planned to get a Seagate next because:

A my WD drive got bad sectors and I needed to replace it (there was no problem though I got a brand new drive)
B WD doesn't do as well in striped arrays, which is what I plan to do in the future
C Seagate has better reliability in some of the data I've seen

[Marshmallowman]

I am getting another seagate drive soon, another 160 G sata...to match the one I already got , 5 year warrantry would be a nice bonus.

And I am getting another WD as well (80G pata), Its being replaced under warranty after 2 years...I will proabably not buy anothe one.

[Dr Mordrid]

Given my experiences with 'em I'm opting out.

Dr. Mordrid

[schmosef]

I'm thinking of putting a Cheetah 15k rpm drive into a dev workstation I'll be building in a couple of months.

Performance wise, I think Seagate is tops. Reliability, I'm not so sure. Just about every Seagate drive I've ever owned has failed or developed bad sectors. And my customers who have Seagate drives in their server raid arrays have had a lot of failures too. Although I have to say that Seagate tech support has been very good to me and my customers over the years.

Just thinking about it, I may opt for a couple of WD 10k rpm raptor drives instead. It would certainly be a lot cheaper.

Do you guys think that RAID 0 on two 10k rpm SATA drives would be worse, the same, or better than a single 15k rpm SCSI drive?

I recently built a new home PC and put in a single WD Raptor drive. The speed increase over 7,200 rpm drives is definitely noticeable.

[leech]

Odd, I've never had any problems with Seagate drives... in fact, I have several 4.5gb SCSI drives that still work great! Oh, and the top of my Seagate drive that's in my external says "Caution: Product warranty is void if any seal or label is removed, or if the drive experiences shock in excess of 350 Gs." Now... how much is 350 Gs? That sounds like a crapload! Would you have to drop it from a high cliff?

Leech

P.S. Their SCSI drives already had a 5 year warranty on them...

[dbdg]

Convenient, I just purchased a Seagate Drive at the start of this month.

[az]

I think you can achieve 350 G is you just let your drive fall off the desk - the g-force when the drive suddenly stops when hitting the ground is HIGH. There was an article in c't some years ago where they reported some g-forces using some kind of shock meter with the same size and mass as a harddrive (in fact, it was inside a harddrive enclosure and was lent to them by a HD manufacturer). I have forgotten the values But just letting the drive tip over if it stands on its shortest side was quite a lot on a hard desk. Lay a magazine under it and it became a lot less.

AZ

[Brian R.]

Knocking two HDs together when you are carrying them is supposed to be very bad. Never tried it.

[xortam]

I picked up two 160 GB Seagates at the end of May ... one SATA and one (P)ATA. Oh well, I'll be buying more of the ATA 160s anyway as they're my swappable media (removable rack). I've already filled up my drives and I'm just getting started. Looks like multi-terabyte NAS boxes for me. I chose the Seagates because of their renowned low noise and good performance. I've never had a drive go bad on me in all my years (knock on wood) but I've always used SCSI. I hope the ATA drives aren't too much worse in reliability.