I’ll Never Buy Another Seagate Drive Ever Again

[falcon2000]

About 3 years ago, I built a batch of computers for an organization. They use a total of 16 Seagate’s business class Barracuda drives. Within 2 years, 3 out of the 16 died. That’s almost 19% failure. By the end of the 3rd year, 1 more died, so at this point 25% failure. As if this is not bad enough, the 3 “Certified Repaired” drives Seagate replaced under warranty all died within 6 months. So all told, 7 out of 19, i.e., almost 37%, died within 3 years. All are confirmed death by Sea Tool. Additionally, the Seagate drive in my laptop also died after just 2 years of service.

This is just ridiculous. I surely hope somebody at Seagate is reading this.

[SuperSparks]

You might find this old thread of interest:

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=245948

[falcon2000]

Very interesting read indeed.

For the 2nd batch of computers I made for the same organization half a year later, I used all WD's enterprise class RE3 drives. Out of 28, only 1 has died so far, so a mere 3.6% in 2.5 years. Of course I cannot make a direct comparison between enterprise class drives w/ business class drives, however, it is very interesting to know that WD's enterprise level RE drives are actually cheaper (avg. market price) and bear a longer warranty period (5 years) than Seagate's business class Barracuda.

[SuperSparks]

Personally, I've used either Samsung or Hitachi drives for years now, and I have yet to have a failure with either brand. Touch wood.

[falcon2000]

I have yet to have a failure with either brand. Touch wood.

Don't jinx it, SS.

[photolady]

On the other hand, I've strictly used WD drives only having one failure in 13 years. When Seagate bought Maxtor is when I quit using their drives. When Maxtor bought Quantum, that's when they went down hill and I have more failures with Maxtor than even Seagate.

[ua549]

IIRC I bought my first Seagate SCSI drive in the late 80'. I've stuck with Seagate ever since. I have never had a Seagate SCSI drive failure. I had a non-Seagate 80 MB (not GB) drive fail back in the day. I'm a SCSI/SAS fanboy.

The only other drives I've had failures with were notebook drives. No matter which brand, they failed quickly - within 60 to 120 days. It was probably caused by the Florida heat. I use my notebooks mostly in the sun by the pool. WD and Toshiba failed more quickly than Seagate or Fujitsu. All were replaced under warranty. IMO Dell, IBM and Toshiba hated to see me buy their notebooks. In the past 5 years I've had only one failure. It was in a notebook. Now I use SSD's and have yet to have a failure. <keeps fingers crossed>

[greendesert]

Personally, I've used either Samsung or Hitachi drives for years now, and I have yet to have a failure with either brand. Touch wood.

Well, in the last four months, both Samsung and Hitachi died and got it replaced. While Samsung provided a brand new as replacement, Hitachi took a long time in sending a refurb hdd.