07-08-2008, 08:19 PM
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 Re: Seagate 7200.11 High Failure Rate
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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> Tony wrote:
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>> I have gotten 5 drives and 4 of them failed within an hour. Yes, the
>> warranty replacements gotten directly from Seagate failed just like the
>> orginal 2 new ones purchased from an online retailer.
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> Then the system you were installing them in was killing them.
You mean my provenably reliable desktop that I have used for years all of a
sudden picks and chooses to destroy 7200.11 drives but not my Maxtor SATA or
Segate PATA drive or other drives I've had in it? I regularly SATA and PATA
drives in this machine to test and setup other users' machines. So, given
all the data of users experiencing high failure rates, you actually came to
the conclusion that my system is bad? Totally bizarre, dude.
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>> One of the original warranty replacements is still working,
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> All that proves is that what killed the others doesnt kill all drives.
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>> though I'm not really using it yet other than loading Windows and testing
>> configs. The model is ST3320613AS. Has anyone the inside scoop on what
>> the problem with these drives is/are
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> The system you are putting them in is killing them.
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>> and whether or not it affects all 7200.11 drives or just the 320 GB
>> model?
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> Its cant be either of those. If they were all failing at
> anything like that rate, the sellers would know about that.
Check out the product reviews at NewEgg. I think the latest reviewer notes
that he went through 8 drives looking for 2 good ones. Check it out.
Something is up with these drives.
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>> (Aside: I bought the original 2 drives for a desktop RAID 0 setup but
>> there's no way I'd use these drives in anything less than a RAID 1 setup
>> now because of their proven unreliability).
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> Its the unreliability of the system you put them in thats proven.
That's not a logical conclusion given the existing information.
Tony
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