08-26-2008, 01:03 AM
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 Re: Seagate 7200.11 High Failure Rate
"Tony" wrote in message
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> wrote in message
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>>I bought a 2.5" 160GB for my laptop.
>> Had a problem. Ran Seatools, showed nothing, called Seagate.
>> They couldn't figure it out, said drive must have a problem.
>> Tried running Spinrite - it showed the drive making constant seek
>> errors. Got a replacement. this one is making lots - not constant -
>> seek errors. Seagate just blows it off and says we don't support
>> anything but Seatools and it doesn't tell what the seek errors are. if
>> it fails u have 5 years to replace it. I said - Ya, but that
>> translates into a slow drive - he couldn't understand that so I gave
>> up. SO seek errors are not important to Seagate.
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>> THEREFORE, Seagate sucks. Don't know if others are better - the orig
>> drive had NO seek errors and one ECC.
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>> THAT IS WHY SEAGATE DRIVES ARE SLOW. Seek time IS the slowest thing
>> that happens - if you have to do that 2-3 times to read one cluster -
>> u can see where that goes.
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> My nightmare with 7200.11 drives continues! I am RMAing today, yet another
> set of 2 drives that Seagate sent me as replacements. I've lost count of
> how many drives have failed (7 now?). Literally, not one 7200.11 I have
> received has lasted for more than a couple of weeks, and all but one have
> died or started degrading immediately. Now the one that actually lived for
> 2 weeks is dead. I noticed also that other people are having the same
> kinds of problems with other models (500 GB) of the 7200.11 series of
> drives.
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> Same failures as before: BIOS and Seatools only intermittantly see the
> drives. RAID card and Windows event logs show drive failures and errors.
> Relocated sectors and seek errors. Can't complete formatting. This time
> though, SeaTools actually noted that one drive failed the tests. The other
> is no longer seen by SeaTools or the system BIOS.
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> I cannot in any way trust these drives with my data, so I am asking
> Seagate to replace with the prior 7200.10 series which appears to have a
> better track record in the forums than the unreliable 7200.11s. I'll keep
> my fingers crossed I guess.
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> Tony
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=ST3320613AS :
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3320613AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Hard Drive - OEM at NewEgg: Deactivated Item.
Looks like NewEgg has dropped this product. I'm leary about all 7200.11
drives, not just this model, given the user reviews.
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