08-21-2008, 10:50 PM
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 Re: Seagate 7200.11 High Failure Rate
"Andrew Hamilton" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:59:42 -0500, "Tony" wrote:
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> drives.
>>>
>>> No offense but either something in your system is killing them or I am
>>> calling
>>> shennanigans on this one.
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>>Go read the NewEgg forums. I'm not the only one experiencing the high
>>failure rate. I have put all kinds of SATA and PATA drives in my machine
>>without a hitch. It's only the latest Seagate ones I'm getting that are
>>failing. It doesn't matter whether they get attached to the RAID card or
>>the
>>motherboard SATA, they just go away quickly/immediately: the last one I
>>received logged reallocated sectors IMMEDIATELY. Here are a FEW of
>>MANY similar experiences with these drives logged recently at NewEgg:
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> Right now I'm running four Seagate 7200.? 320 GB models in my Antec
> P180 case, with zero problems. But my digital photo library is
> growing so fast that I thought I should upgrade one or two of the
> drives to 1 TB.
>
> I was all set to order two of the Seagate 7200.11 1 TB drives, UNTIL I
> read those same reports. Now I won't.
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> To all the people blaming the OP for being problem, just spend some
> time on the egghead site and read product reviews. Most are pretty
> positive, or point out a few design flaws. It's rare that you read
> about product _failure rates_.
Not true. Upwards of 40% of the posts are negative (most of those "very
poor" rating because of failures/DOA) for the 320 GB 7200.11.
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> The fact that so many people are reporting problems IS statistically
> significant. What the cause is, I don't know and I suspect Seagate
> engineers do know and are struggling to fix it.
I got notice today that they are sending me yet another 2 drives to replace
the most recent failures. They were supposed to contact me to find a better
solution but maybe the warranty replacement process happens separately from
the discussions that are had with the technicians.
Seagate has their own forum also, I found out yesterday. Failures of the 320
GB 7200.11 have been noted there also.
Tony
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