Title says it all, now I have to find a replacement for this worthless piece of shit. Because it was OEM I cant RMA it so ive learned my lesson. I was thinking about getting a retail western digital at circuit city, any suggestions on ar RETAIL replacement?
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well, my maxtor died
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Seagate = 5 year warranty.
most of my drives are WD, but that 5yr thing is tempting.
BTW even OEM drives should have a warranty, did you check? https://www4.maxtor.com/en/support/service/rma/create/01_serial_number.cfm?dt=
==>Lazn
most of my drives are WD, but that 5yr thing is tempting.
BTW even OEM drives should have a warranty, did you check? https://www4.maxtor.com/en/support/service/rma/create/01_serial_number.cfm?dt=
==>Lazn
Not to start a flame war, but to me there are only two real options. For years I have had enourmous succes with Seagate, they were the one's who invented the Fluid Dynamic Bearing motor. They are good at what they do. Lately though I bought a WD Raptor for kicks, and its been very impressive, but I honestly would steer clear of anything else of theirs (Raptor is there top of the line Sata). Lately Hitatchi's have been performace drives, but I cant reward or trust them after the DeathStar epidemic. The real truth is most of the time drive failures result not from manufactoring defects, but shipping damage. They are still extremely sensitive, and throwing them in a box on the back of a truck is just a bad way to move them. It would be like driving a newly bought car through a minefield before you actually get it home.
My 2 cents.
I also have a new Samsung 160gb Sata that is looking to be excellent for its price point.
My 2 cents.
I also have a new Samsung 160gb Sata that is looking to be excellent for its price point.
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I wouldn't buy any brand drive just because you had a different brand fail. After you've been dealing with drives as long as I have you'll see every brand fail, although sometimes there's problems with certain model lines. Deathstar anyone?
My first hard drive, back when they cost a fortune, was a 20MB Seagate drive (yeah that's megabytes...sad) It died after a year and I was extremely bitter with Seagate for a long time.
Since then in my personal computers I've had a Quantum die on me, 3 IBM Deathstars (thanks to replacements dieing as well as the originals), 2 Western Digitals, and amazingly enough no Maxtors yet.
But don't get too excited. I've had to replace a number of Maxtors at work that have died. Same goes for Seagate, Fujitsu, WD, and Samsung.
I'm in the process of RMAing a WD 80GB drive that died after 2.5 years of use with no problems. This was part of a RAID0 array. The other drive that was purchased with it is still working fine.
I recommend buying a drive based on the warranty. 3 years is the minimum I would accept. Often times retail drives have less of a warranty than OEM drives even if it's the same drive, so double check before you buy.
My first hard drive, back when they cost a fortune, was a 20MB Seagate drive (yeah that's megabytes...sad) It died after a year and I was extremely bitter with Seagate for a long time.
Since then in my personal computers I've had a Quantum die on me, 3 IBM Deathstars (thanks to replacements dieing as well as the originals), 2 Western Digitals, and amazingly enough no Maxtors yet.
But don't get too excited. I've had to replace a number of Maxtors at work that have died. Same goes for Seagate, Fujitsu, WD, and Samsung.
I'm in the process of RMAing a WD 80GB drive that died after 2.5 years of use with no problems. This was part of a RAID0 array. The other drive that was purchased with it is still working fine.
I recommend buying a drive based on the warranty. 3 years is the minimum I would accept. Often times retail drives have less of a warranty than OEM drives even if it's the same drive, so double check before you buy.
Not to start a flame war, but to me there are only two real options. For years I have had enourmous succes with Seagate, they were the one's who invented the Fluid Dynamic Bearing motor. They are good at what they do. Lately though I bought a WD Raptor for kicks, and its been very impressive, but I honestly would steer clear of anything else of theirs (Raptor is there top of the line Sata). Lately Hitatchi's have been performace drives, but I cant reward or trust them after the DeathStar epidemic. The real truth is most of the time drive failures result not from manufactoring defects, but shipping damage. They are still extremely sensitive, and throwing them in a box on the back of a truck is just a bad way to move them. It would be like driving a newly bought car through a minefield before you actually get it home.
My 2 cents.
I also have a new Samsung 160gb Sata that is looking to be excellent for its price point.
My 2 cents.
I also have a new Samsung 160gb Sata that is looking to be excellent for its price point.
get WD enterprise drives, they have 5 years warranty. for example, the 250GB enterprise SATA drive (WD2500SD) has a 1 million hours MTBF (mean time between failure), that's more than 100 years! with that you should feel very safe about the drive and the information you store on it.
All harddrives suck....mechanical parts break it happens. If you buy a drive expecting it to last forever, you're misguided. Sometimes you get lucky and have a drive that lasts years, sometimes you don't. Bad batches happen, just like with cars. Mistakes happen. No brand is really better than another these days. You will be able to find opinions against any drive manufacturer.
Though, if you truly want a rock solid, hard and nails, last for ever drive, pick up an old micropolis full height 5.25 inch scsi drive. Built like bricks and weigh even more. Solid drive though. Still have a few that run just for teh shock value of showing people drives that physically sized.
Though, if you truly want a rock solid, hard and nails, last for ever drive, pick up an old micropolis full height 5.25 inch scsi drive. Built like bricks and weigh even more. Solid drive though. Still have a few that run just for teh shock value of showing people drives that physically sized.
I decided to give my drive another try today, and apparently it works just fine. I think I might have knocked the power chord loose or something when I was fiddling with cables and and missed it when I did the drive's cable check. Which leads to my second problem, a corrupted file in the system directory, which is probably the new memory's fault (as it failed memtest until I changed the dimm slots). I did a repair install and now everything works fine.