Poll: Reliability of Various Storage Drives

[Sparkhard]

1. yes

2. no

3. no

4. yes

5. no

6. no

 

[durpquad]

1. Yes

2. No

3. Yes

4. Yes

5. Yes

6. Yes

 

[JWeavis]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? 4 drives in the last 2 years

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) Nope

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) Nope

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? For the important stuff.

 

[PresPD]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
YES
Western Digital: Yes, but it took a while
Maxtor: Yes, Damn 160GB SATA, RMA once, and now second one died a week ago. Not more than 1.5 years old on the second. POS product.
Samsung: Yes, but it too was a workhorse for years.
Seagate: Never. Even after salvaging them from a fire that destoyed my company's building. Still using 4 80gigs in the house, 3 40gigs all 7200.8 series, now have a 160gig SATA, and another new 80gig EIDE 7200.8 series in the homebrew BeyondTV box.


2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never. Have had two. Sandisk 256 USB 2.0 going strong, lost the othe one.


3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never owned one


4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
YES
Been using the Memorex brand black CDR. One or two here or there.
Never on the DVD-R side. Using Ritek DVD-R discs made in Japan.


5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Way too often to admit.


6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
YES. Acronis True Image 8, weekly. RAID 1 on the 160 gig HD's

 

[prozpris]

1. Yes

2. No

3. No

4. No

5. No

6. No

 

[DamienThorn]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes

 

[phred15]

Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes

Have you ever had a usb pen fail on you? No

Have you ever had an external Hard drive fail on you? NO

have you ever had a cd-r, dvd-r or other optical fail on you? Yes

Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? Yes

Do you have any sort of backup regimem? Yes

 

[UberSwank]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes
Personal: 4
Company: 92 (PC tech in a 400 employee site)

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes - 3

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Not yet

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Other than initial burning, no.
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
No

 

[HekoAridese]

1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. No

Good luck on your speech!

 

[PKRipper1]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? I think it's been 5. Three DeathStars.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) I've never owned one.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) I've never owned one.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? I don't think I have, but I've seen quite a few fail.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? I don't think so.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? I usually only back up before formatting. I just burn downloaded stuff that I want to keep to a DVD. There's not much on my rig that I'm really worried about. My wife does a lot of photos. She doesn't back up unless Windows is hosed. She got pretty worried a few times when the burning software wouldn't work. Each time, I was able to suck the photos over to my rig via LAN.

 

[Pied]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? - yes - Maxtor 80GB

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) - never had one - NO

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) - never had one - NO

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? - yes but usually only cheap media

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? - no

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? - yes - burn to DVD

 

[kanuuker]

1. yes, several. About 1 in 10 drives fail on me - all brands (I own a computer store).

 

[Tzeentch]

1. Yes
2. N/A never owned one.
3. N/A never owned one.
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. No

 

[obviouslytom]

this is why I have switch to Segate drives and their 5 year warrenty.....I have had 5 Western Digital drives die on my in the last 3 years

 

[H8Mondays]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes

 

[Tanky]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
no
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
no
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
no
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
no
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
no
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
yes

 

[S[H]ady]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, several.
Over the past 10 years i have had at least 5 drives die on me.
2 Fuji's, 2 Maxtors, 1 Wester Digital, and 1 Seagate drive that wasnt mine. the latest was my 200GB Maxtor. Died 4 days after plugging it in. The Seagate 120GB that was leant to me by the store owner, died after 2 days.


4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Nope. only the scratched or damaged ones.


5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Sure have. Nothing to important, but it pissed me off at the time.


6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Not really. I keep redundant copies of stuff like video and music on multiple computers. But i generaly don't bother. I've lost so much stuff, that what I keep, doesn't bother me anymore to lose.

 

[peepingdan]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, Western Digital 20gig

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Only from bad burns.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
No.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
No.

 

[icthus13]

1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes, but only due to physical damage
5. No
6. Yes

 

[sfuller]

1. Yes

2. No

3. No

4. No

5. No

6. Yes: RAID 1 and backup semi-monthly to external HD.

 

[forcefed]

1. yes
2. dont have one
3. dont have one
4. yes
5. no
6. yes

 

[OKANG]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
A couple, but most of the time I upgrade before that happens.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No, not even when I was deployed to Kuwait.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes, one.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yeah, I have several sets of coasters.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
I keep backup copies of important files on a seperate drive.

 

[kitsuneymg]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes. A 60 GB IBM DeskStar.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No and I have used them.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No. But I use an external case + internal drive

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes. Only due to physical damage.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes. Many times.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes. I share media files on my school's resnet. I also burn important files to DVD/CD

 

[fuelvolts]

1. Yes, 4 in 6 months - screw Maxtor and their RMA drives

2. A single 256MB Lexar - just never worked one day

3. Technically yes, one of the failed Maxtors was in an external enclosure

4. Not yet....

5. Yes, many times

6.My server backs up to a seperate 120GB HD every Satruday morning @ 3:00 am

 

[Aximi1i]

1. Yes

2. Yes, multiple

3. No

4. Yes, Multiple

5. Yes

6. Yes

 

[Patman]

yes

no

no

yes

no

yes

 

[wolrahnaes]

1. Yes, but due to a PSU failure
2. N/A
3. No
4. Yes, all the time
5. A whole partition once.
6. No, but I use multiple computers so there are copies of all my important work across many hard drives in many machines. It's a kind of accidental backup, and it works well enough for me.

 

[Iworkatwendys]

1. Yes

2. N/A

3. No

4. No

5. No

6. No

 

[irasnyd]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, more than once.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes, once.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never used one.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, many, many times. (More than 20)

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes, a few times.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes, on some of my computers. I keep my webserver backed up (every 15 days) to the point where I can recover it with about 4 hours worth of work. (I wish I could keep a full backup, but I don't have the diskspace.) My main workstation is not backed up at all. (again, I don't have the diskspace) I am, however, hoping to build a large RAID array within the next few months to solve this problem

 

[Rogue]

1. Yes

2. No

3. Yes

4. No

5. No

6. No

 

[mentok1982]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

Some bad sectors on my Windows ME hard drive, I lived with it until I upgraded.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

My mom has had two fail on her from PNY.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Yes. But mostly because the way they were stored and their age.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

I have never accidentily deleted a file.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

I used to backup my music, but now all my music is also on my 30GB Creative MP3 player.
I still have a disc with all the screenshots I have collected though.

 

[TheAcorn]

I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

1. Yes, more than one. WDs, Seagates, Maxtors (and oddly in that order)

2. Yes, those Maxel color CD-Rs from the late 90's... I've had a lot of those fail.

5. Yup, Windows did a consistency check and blotted out a nearly half-full 250GB backup drive on startup once. That didn't come back. I didn't try very hard either. I have most, if not all of it on a drive that isn't in a system, and away from all sources of heat, water, explosion, and so forth.

6. When the drive gets full. This is not a good regimen, but it is a regimen. (see answer 5)

 

[raz-0]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
YES

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
NO

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
N/A

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
YES

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
YES

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Professionally, yes, personally, no.

 

[Wildwhippy]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) Yes

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Yes

 

[artimusbill]

1. Yes (Maxtor Bigfoot, a LONG time ago)
4. Yes (more times than I want to count, but with cheap media)

 

[dekard]

I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

4& 5: yes
6: no

comment, yes, i'm a dumb son of a bitch

 

[Scroatdog]

1 No
2 No
3 No
4 No
5 No
6. Yes. Created incremental backups of all my RAID-0 data partitions using Acronis True Image onto a separate hard drive for large file stores.

Other helpful info maybe? : 1 WD 74Gb Raptor, 2 WD 80 gig JB's, 1 WD 160 JB. The ATA's all have SATA bridge chips on them.

 

[Machinehead]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? - No

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) - No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) - No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? - Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? - No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? - Yes

 

[MN Scout]

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, a WD 80gb drive that got the click of death.
4. Yes, but always during burning, since I have it verify the data. But I haven't checked any of my cds from 2+ years ago....
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?[/QUOTE]
Yes, I burn all my important files on onto cds and dvds every month. All my music that I have ripped off of cds that I own are also saved on both cds and dvds in mp3 format. Also I have my main drive in a raid 1 array. I know that isn't really back up, but it does protect from 1 of the drives dying.

 

[FiZ]

1. Yes

4. Yes

5. Yes

6. Yes