 Re: Seagate 7200.11 High Failure Rate
Tony wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Tony wrote
>>> 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.
>> Then the system you were installing them in was killing them.
> You mean my provenably reliable desktop
No such animal as far as a new fault showing up is concerned, particularly
when you increase the load on the 12V rail by adding extra drives.
> 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?
All that indicates is that the Seagate drives were more sensitive to the fault.
> I regularly SATA and PATA drives in this machine to test and setup other users' machines.
Irrelevant to what happens when the number of drives is increased significantly.
> So, given all the data of users experiencing high failure rates,
No one got anything like the failure rate that you claimed to have seen.
> you actually came to the conclusion that my system is bad?
Nope, from the failure rate that no one else is seeing, actually.
> Totally bizarre, dude.
Nope, dud.
>>> One of the original warranty replacements is still working,
>> All that proves is that what killed the others doesnt kill all drives.
>>> 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
>> The system you are putting them in is killing them.
>>> and whether or not it affects all 7200.11 drives or just the 320 GB model?
>> 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.
None of them have had anything like the failure rate you are claiming.
> I think the latest reviewer notes that he went through 8 drives looking for 2 good ones. Check it out.
No thanks, its clearly not what most see.
> Something is up with these drives.
Something is certainly up with your 'logic'
>>> (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).
>> Its the unreliability of the system you put them in thats proven.
> That's not a logical conclusion given the existing information.
Wrong, as always.
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