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HDD reliability study

Which brand has failed on you?

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perplex

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Hello, please vote the brand of hard disk that you have experienced fail on you. I'm wondering because I'm in the market for a new drive and interested in all the different brands :rolleyes:

I'm forward planning because my Deathstar is ~5 years old and still running fine :cool:

Anyway vote! :)

I forgot to add Samsung. Please use "OTHER" for Samsung and state in a post
 
Hitachi is the only one that S**T out on me. Hell i still have a 964MB WD that still works.
 
I had failures from IBM, WD and Samsung.. so I voted other. I heard that this other site that reviews storage devices has a great reliability survey, which would be even better if more people participated.
 
What about those of us that have had drives from multiple companies fail on us?

A few years back I had a Maxtor 20gb fail on me.

About 8 months ago I had an old WD 40gb fail on me.

About 6 months ago I had a Seagate 200gb fail on me (although thankfully this one was under warranty).
 
I can barely believe my Deathstar is stilling going after reading users experiences from it :eek: . I'm holding my breath everyday (not literally :p) for it to come crashing down and turn into a cloud of smoke ;)
 
Had multiple WD drives fail on me, everything from 2gb Caviars to a WD2500JB.
Numerous dead SCSI drives, a couple from IBM, lost count of the Seagates, and a couple of quantum/maxtor drives. Had a quantum bigfoot fail on me, loudest crash i've ever heard. Had a pair of 40gb Maxtors fail on me in a RAID-0 array that I was playing with. Only ever owned one Hitachi drive, 36z15, and it worked fine until I sold it. Never owned any samsung drives.
I think one thing to remember in a poll like this, the more hard drives you see in a given period, the more dead ones you'll have. I have 50+ drives, mostly Seagate SCSI, pass through my house a month, as I buy and sell them on forums and e-bay.
http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/survey_login
We're not really well equiped to do this right; SR is ;)
 
I've had a Maxtor 40GB IDE drive blow up in a removable drive enclosure. Luckily there wasn't anything sensitive on it, and they were good with the RMA.
 
Had 4 Western Digitals die on me. 2 drives that died were replacements that died after replacing a dead WD drive. Only had one IBM/Hitachi drives die, and that's out of 7, three of which are 75GXP deathstars. :eek: 2 of them are still strong after 5+ years of 24/7 service. ;)
 
Good Old IBM Deathstars.
Had 2 20gb drives go within 3 weeks of each other - while i was awaiting delivery of a new one.

Still, that was about 4 years ago now - they've come on miles from then surely ? :p
 
I am withholding my vote because only being able to vote for one doesn't cut it.

I've had hitachi, maxtor and WD drives all fail on me.
 
I've seen several drives fail and will just list the most notable

Maxtor slim-line drives.
Seagate drives that had the black rubber cover
WD odd sized drives (13GB, 30GB, 100GB, etc.)
IBM Desktop drives (notebook drives have never failed on me)

These days I pick whatever drive has 7200RPM, 8MB cache and at least a 3 year warranty that's the lowest price.
 
i guess im lucky, i never had a drive fail on me..though i 'accidently' dropped my old 40gb ibm deathstar...ive been using a 40gb hitachi for a little over a year now and its a blessing compared to the ibm :)
 
I had a very weird death streak...

I run a little tech support in my neighborhood. A guy accross the street calls me up, says two comps don't work. Turns out both of their WD Caviars died, practically simultaneously. No bios accross 3 different comps could recognize them.

Next week, I had an 80gig WD die on me. Had my father's corporate emails, too... quite a hassle recovering shit between cyclic redundancy failures.

About three weeks after, a neighbor's 200gb went all drummerboy on her. Guess what, WD again!

And a few days later, my other good friend's 80gig Caviar went kaput.

It's like they were all programmed to die in the space of 1 month... very very strange.

From then on, I concretely established my law: NEVER BUY WESTERN DIGITAL
 
jesus, it definately seems Western Digital is the one to stay clear of.

i think Western Digital read this poll ;) look at this :rolleyes:
 
I'm willing to bet that every company has hard drives that fail.

Just a hunch though. I could be wrong.
 
Really, this should be a multiple choice poll :) Then again, I guess not everybody has as many drives as me :p

Also, I believe that any drive that has served for five years should not be too harshly criticized (if at all) when it does fail.

My most recent failure was a 120GB DiamondMax Plus 9 that was 2.5 years old - it gets my vote.
 
3 separate wd2500jb's have failed on me in the last 3 weeks alone. Every one of them was out of the warranty period by between 3 weeks and 5 months. The frustrating part is, two of them were part of raids, so I have to replace them with the same thing.

When it came time to order drives for a new array last week, I went with 8 400gb Seagate 7200.8's. I don't think I'll be buying another western digital until I know their relliability has really improved.

I've had lots of drives fail, but with the exception of the deathstars none failed as consistently and early as these WD2500's.

I work at a company that makes educational videos, so we go through alot of hard drives.
 
I only have one HDD failed on me, Micropolis, it was in 96 i think :p

My upgrade cycle is usually 6-12 months, and usually i replace my hdd too, so far no bad hdd on my system yet.
 
Never had a hdd failure in any system I've built. We have several old 500MB-10GB Western Digital drives we have retired because they are to low capacity. Dad would only buy WD back in the day and still does. So far have a 100% track record.

You can see my drives in my sig and other than those I had a WD45GB, and a 20GB that passed through my system and then moved on to others.

My dad has had about 4x WD80GB a 100GB, and 2x 160GB and a 200GB drives a 120Maxtor external, and several other WD40's still running. And a pair of WD74 raptors running raided for abou 1.5years now.

A friend did have a 20gig Fujitsu in his gateway die though.
 
I voted for WD, but immediately afterwards I remember that I had an IBM Deathstar fail on me a few years ago.
 
I meant to vote the maxtor, but voted WD, all my WD's are fine, my maxtors died on me.
 
Only drive I've ever had fail on me was an old 10k Seagate Cheetah.

It was this massive half height 18GB SCSI-2 thing that sounded like a jet engine.
 
Maxtor: Almost a dozen
Western Digital: 2
Fujitsu: 1
Seagate: 1
Samsung: 0
Hitachi: 0
 
WD got my vote because, as mentioned above, most of the WD drives I have ever purchased died 3 weeks outsite of the warranty period. heartless non-RMAing bastards.

 
The poll is going to be severely inaccurate. You cannot base your judgement on it. WD and Maxtor are the most popular harddrive makers at least for people that build their own with hitach and seagate trailing behind somewhat.

I'm going to wager that the amount of WD and MAxtor drives in posession of our members far outweights and completely dwarves the number of other drives. With that many more your obviously going to hear about failures from those two when in fact their reliablitiy is probably among the best.

Edit to clarify:
If WD has a 1% failure chance and you sample 100,000 drives across our users you'll likely find 1,000 failures.

If Hitachi has a 5% failure chance and we only have 1,000 drives to report in, your likely only going to find 50 failures.

Drives will be installed in different configurations with different environments as far as humidity and heat go and you have users who report failure with a WD but didn't run a Maxtor, fujitsu, seagate i the same environemnt.
 
fair point but i doubt WD and Maxtor are That much more bought by people here :rolleyes: Maybe - Maybe not.

Would be ideal if there were people that handle thousands of different hard disks from people with computer problems for example for their job :)
 
perplex said:
fair point but i doubt WD and Maxtor are That much more bought by people here :rolleyes: Maybe - Maybe not.

Would be ideal if there were people that handle thousands of different hard disks from people with computer problems for example for their job :)
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I really think they are though. I obviously have no proof, just gut feeling. I've read many Max vs. WD threads that get as heated as Intel vs. AMD and ATI vs. nVidia.
 
FOCK YOU AND YOUR DEATHSTARS IBM!!!

I had 3 and they all failed. I'll never buy another IBM or Hitatchi drive again.

Sons 'a bitches. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Had 4 IBM Deathstars (when they were the hot "shit") all of them died. Only brand in recent memory that I've had really bad experience with overall.

Rest of my drives are WD and Hitachi's, zero problems.
 
All in the same box at work: 2 40GB deathstars & a WD 1200JB. The sad part is both of the Deathstars lasted longer than the WD1200JB. At home I've have a 5.5yo WD SCSI and a refurb 18GB Seagate Cheetah FC-AL drive crap out on me. What do you expect out of a 5.5yo drive and a $20 refurb though? I think I'm doing pretty well as I've got 18 drives running currently.
 
By the look of the poll, Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate are the most unreliable. I would defintiely go out and buy yourself more IBM Deathstars for your upgrades ;)
 
Menelmarar said:
By the look of the poll, Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate are the most unreliable. I would defintiely go out and buy yourself more IBM Deathstars for your upgrades ;)
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haha :D maybe i'll follow your advice and get another Deathstar once this one dies ;)
 
I think it would be a better pole if it asked which brand HASN'T failed on you.

I've had Maxtors and Western Digitals die on me, not to mention the 1 IBM DeathStar I bought. Whereas Seagates run cool, quiet, and are the best drive out there IMHO. Plus, no one else has a 5 year warranty. How can you loose?
 
Had a WD 80 gb die on me, but I believe that was due to a shitty power supply that old PC had. Also had to RMA a maxtor 40gb because it was making loud clunking noises at startup every so often (not click, just a singleloud hollow *CLUNK*). I've been lucky in that I havent lost any valuable data due to HD failure. Im using Hitachi 7k250 drives at the moment on all my home systems and have had no problems whatsoever (knock on wood).
 
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