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Doesn't really matter what brand you choose.
More than likely all the chips come from Foxxcon.
More than likely all the chips come from Foxxcon.
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Doesn't really matter what brand you choose.
More than likely all the chips come from Foxxcon.
I knew Seagate were bad. But damn... That is worst then I expected.
What is so green about using up resources to create a hard disk drive that will later fail and find itself in a land-fill.
I don't understand. It's not like hard-disk drive technology is new. Its been so many years since hdds were invented, that by now these drives should have high reliability.
Zarathustra[H];1040564067 said:Isn't Foxxcon primarily an assembler? I didn't think they did much in the way of IC manufacturing...
And why do we even care where the "chips" come from?
Mechanical systems will always be orders of magnitude less reliable than electrical systems. When a hard drive fails, I'd bet 99 times out of 100, it's because of one of the moving parts, not because of the controller board.
Now SSD's are another story...
All hard drives will fail over time.
Manufacturers are more concerned with cost and squeezing more bits into basically the same hardware than making a drive that is expected to last decades. And if they made such a drive would you 2 thousand dollars for a 2TB drive with a 10 year warranty?
You'd be surprised. I've fixed a number of hard drives by removing the circuit board and doing a heat reflow with a heat gun. Heat reflows don't work too well for very long, as no hard drive that I've done that lasted. Just enough to get the data off the drive before it's trashed. But yea, the circuit boards are a huge problem for drives. You just can't easily tell if it's a mechanical failure or electrical.Zarathustra[H];1040564067 said:Mechanical systems will always be orders of magnitude less reliable than electrical systems. When a hard drive fails, I'd bet 99 times out of 100, it's because of one of the moving parts, not because of the controller board.
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I just wonder if the high failure rate is due to improper usage of the consumer Seagate drives where in a more proper home usage setting they might have a more similar failure rate to Western Digital.
Manufacturers are more concerned with cost and squeezing more bits into basically the same hardware than making a drive that is expected to last decades. And if they made such a drive would you 2 thousand dollars for a 2TB drive with a 10 year warranty?
....what I mean is "HOW THE HELL CAN A HARD DRIVE HAVE A 120% ANNUAL FAILURE RATE?" (not how they calculated it)
I miss Samsung. Seagate make the hard drive equivalent of early 90's Hyundais.
....what I mean is "HOW THE HELL CAN A HARD DRIVE HAVE A 120% ANNUAL FAILURE RATE?" (not how they calculated it)
When they give you a "replacement", they simply replace your bad drive with someone else's. They always say "of equal or greater value", some people get equals.