Shit - another Harddrive died...
 

2 years of working 24/7 and they're done. never trust any harddrive alone with your stuff :disgust

seagate or wd ?

Hope you had a backup...

I bet it was a Maxtor or Segate.... those pieces of fucking shit... I learned the hard way. I buy only Western Digital and I replace them every two years whether needed or not as a matter of habit.

http://www.apple.com/switch :thumbsup

I was always lucky with Maxtors. Seagate on the other hand... :mad:

Why is it they always dumb out in the month the warranty ceases?

THO... They still claim MTBF of much longer :mad:

2 failed Maxtor drives, one from 2 months ago and one from tonight. but they got 4 years of warranty and both will be replaced for free. although it somehow sucks to get Maxtor drives again, i'm somehow sick of them :disgust

Just got the LaCie 600GB external today and so far it fucking rocks... :pimp

Never had a HDD fail on me yet... (toi toi toi)

For me only Western Digital harddrives died... 3 within 2 months. The good thing was that I got them all replaced for free, the bad thing I lost A LOT of data that cost me months of work.

I only buy Seagate now and safe things on an external hdd too.

a WD drive once killed 100 edited clips including the editing files here. i can't remember one drive brand that did not fail - just a couple of Samsung drives still work without complaints - and they were the cheapest

yeah maxtor really sucks for me. haven't tried seagate yet. but i use western digital. it will be having its 3rd birthday next month.

open it and look what drives are in there - probably maxtor or seagate since LaCie just builds the cases :winkwink:

good luck!

I'm not gonna fuckin touch it as long as it does what it's supposed to do :1orglaugh

happy early birthday to your harddrive, but i got like 40 or 50 alltogether here and i can't keep track which one i bought when :winkwink:

Bummer that is why I do weekly back ups

I agree with you, but what are they going to have to complain about if their hard drives last as long as they have the computer?
Or least, last as long as the warranty and then some.

This constant HD failure is almost unheard of in the Mac world.

Seagate makes the best hard drives. They offer 5 year warranties on them.

Never lost one yet.

i worked in a prepress company with lots of Macs - and the HD failures started when they started to use ATA drives instead of SCSI. SCSI drives used to last much longer cause they were build for professional use.

today you just get server drives that are made for permanent use but are way too noisy to use in an office environment or you have to use consumer drives.

I will never ever buy Western Digital again.

1. Backup regularly. A drive is a mechanical device so it's not an "IF" it's a "WHEN" it will fail.
2. If your drives are not "metal cool" to the touch then you're probably shortening their life. Install extra cooling such as a fan.
3. Drive brands are like religions... everyone thinks their preference is best!

The only hard drives I have ever had fail are Maxtor. Hitachi drives (newer than 2k3) are probably the best drives on the market these days. The old Hitachi's were really sucky, almost as bad as Maxtor, but the new Hitachi's are supreme.

that's why i switched a lot of stuff to Buffalo NAS towers, less heat, better cooling, Raid 5

and it was just a backup drive - so nothing is lost. i learned from the past :pimp

Weekly?? :winkwink:

Got that stuff being backed up all the time - as soon as the routine is finished backing up every hard drive - it starts all over again. In real life it means everything (all desktops, server and "backups") is backed up ever 60 hours or so.

For coding/programming stuff it's slightly different - that's backed up every hour or "on demand" depending. Pain in the ass to lose code midstream - takes ages to find the point to start developing again.

I love my WD hd . I never had any HD failures... I backup often thought.

I've had 3 Western Digital HD's fail. One just recently.

You can figure about 3 years and then its time to replace them.

Always backup your drives.

I'm only buying Seagates now. Never had one fail yet.

Microsoft only uses Seagates for all their mission critical corporate PC's by the way.

too bad Seagate now belongs to Maxtor :Oh crap

Actually Maxtor belongs to Seagate, they bought them for 1.9billion :winkwink:

if so they paid too much :1orglaugh

I agree :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh They totally got ripped off :upsidedow

i hope you're able to recover all you're files...

I backup everything important,hard drive crashes suck

make backups.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not cool

i got i dont know what the fuck it is running for 5+ years and a WD running for 1+ years.... never probs!

i hope that's sarcasm. hard drives are hard drives, no matter that box they sit in.

maxtor, wd, seagate, ibm.... all the same. Keep your hard drives COOLED properly and none will fail :)

Setup raid1 and sleep safely

No I'm dead serious.
Hard drives are hard drives, thats where it ends.
And the point is, other components can be at fault.
Use dirt cheap components, you get what you pay for

yeh no such thing as a safe harddrive, back up all the time!

Always have backups!

It's a huge differance on harddrives even from the same company, Western Digital makes cheap drives with 1 year warranty and quality drives with 5 years warranty, you usually gets what you pays for.

To eliminate a competitor, they got it at a bargain IMO

I agree. You should also shell out the extra bucks for a controller that supports RAID 5 and then replacing those hard drives usually isn't such a hassle. But still backup everything.

I had my powerbook hard drive die last week and I didnt have a backup.

I put the drive in the fridge and managed to get it working again so I could rescue my files.

I don't think that's true. Hard drives are hard drives, they have moving parts whether they be inside a PC or a Mac.

I've been using PCs alot longer than macs and have more of them. In 7 years I've had 1 drive fail in a PC, and 1 in a mac.

i just spoke with a friend and his HD in his Ibook died last week. it's all the same shit :2 cents:

so you asume a PC is dirty cheap components??

There are two types of people in this world. Those that have had a HDD fail on them, and those that WILL have a HDD fail on them. I back up to a external Lacie, and have DVDs at a friends place of essentials and also have a remote back up to a server that updates new data at 3am on a cron.

Can't be too careful.

Hope you had it backed up dude