Seagate Users

[ILuvDetailing]

My Seagate HD (40Gig Barracuba ATA) just died on me this morning after a little over 3 years of service... is this normal for a seagate? I'm hoping that it would last me at least 5 years. I partitioned it a couple of times, could this be the cause of its shortened lifespan? It was used before as my datadisk, after my Western Digital broke down I used this as my system disk.

Fellow Seagate users, please share your experience.

[Innova_Boy]

Well seagate HD are so tough now that they made it have a warranty of five years since 3rd qtr 2004 i think...on your case maybe it's on case to case basis.. i have here seagte 2.1 GB maybe more than 5 years and still usable and my computer is On from 9Am up to 8 pm everyday 365 days a year...HTH..

WBR,

[BlueBimmer]

80% of my harddisks are seagate, in my experience it is much much more reliable than maxtor. 1 time lng nagkaproblema seagate sakin, maxtor more than 7 times na replaced under warranty. Hitachi HDs for notebooks too are notorious for bad sectors.

ok na yan 3 yrs although dpat talaga more than 5 yrs running yan with no problem..swertehan lng hehe

[artpogi]

well we've also encountered those problems with Seagate, but among western digital, maxtor and seagate, we still prefer seagate.

[pajerokid]

3years medy okay na yan siguro ILD.

[jaeger]

We used to specify Seagate drives for all 140 PCs in our office. Those made in China just fail right after their warranty period even if their spec sheets indicate MTBF (mean-time-before-failure) to be 10 times over. Those made in Singapore are a lot more durable - but mostly SCSI drives for our servers.

Since 2001, we have shifted to Maxtor drives for workstation PCs and so far, no failure yet, whatsoever, or are we just lucky with this batch. We still stick to Seagate SCSI (U160 & U320) drives for our servers - they're pretty tough (with rated MTBF of over 1 million hours), and with 100% reliability.

[chain]

lahat ng HD dito sa office Seagate.. and so far, no probs.. mga 3-4 years na din yung iba. ok na din kahit papaano yung 3 years para sa HD mo, ILD.

[gearspeed]

Computer ko sa bahay Seagate ang HD na 120 GB..Wala naman problem ang hindi ko lang malaman bakit kapag binubuksan ko ang CPU ko merong ingay sa loob pero nawawala rin kaso may time iingay ulit siya..

[BoEinG_747]

Computer ko sa bahay Seagate ang HD na 120 GB..Wala naman problem ang hindi ko lang malaman bakit kapag binubuksan ko ang CPU ko merong ingay sa loob pero nawawala rin kaso may time iingay ulit siya..

IMO...may tama na hard disk mo ...in my case ganyan din experience ko sa Western DIgital ko .before nasira HD ko .may scracthing sounds everytime switch ON ko ang CPU..tumagal naman sa akin ng 4 yrs 80 GB nga pala HD ko .iyon last 2 yrs ay lagi sia naka on lang ..wala na halos patayan ..kaya solve na din ako sa service nito


Sir ILD,ok na rin ang serbisyo ng HD Mo ...tagal na rin non

[falken]

One of the Seagate drives on my computer came from my old computer, it's been used for 5 yrs. going on 6 na, so far no problem pa naman.

[NightRock]

I never had a problem with my Sea Gate Barracuda.. I'll been using it for the last 6years.. I had one before but that was factory defect.. the shop changed it with a new one.

[badkuk]

dunno about the 5 year warranty. pagkakaalam ko samsung is the only one offering a 3 year warranty on their drives. shops are hesitant in selling them because of that

[DoctorDoom]

My Seagate HD (40Gig Barracuba ATA) just died on me this morning after a little over 3 years of service... is this normal for a seagate? I'm hoping that it would last me at least 5 years. I partitioned it a couple of times, could this be the cause of its shortened lifespan? It was used before as my datadisk, after my Western Digital broke down I used this as my system disk.

Fellow Seagate users, please share your experience.

Companies often publish their defect rates per million units sold to measure their product reliability. Which means if your disk crashed on you out of 6 million disks they sold that are still running until now, then I say it's a very reliable product.

As an analogy, 6 plane crashes in a year could have killed 2,000 people. But take into account the hundreds and thousands of take-offs and landings on that same year that ferried millions of passengers, you can conclude that riding an airplane is more safe than riding a car.

Bottomline: You got the unlucky random defect on your Seagate.

[ts1n1ta]

ILD, baka bumigay ang HD dahil sa mga peechures? :hihihi:

[Elroi]

medyo premature ang pagkasira nyan.. i've been using Seagate eversince... had the same drive Seagate Barracuda 40G on a P3, running 10 hrs/day everyday since 2001 pa... yung isa naman 60G on a P4 since 2003..

meron pa akong 1.2G on my 1st pc, 98-99 pa yata yun pero buhay pa din...

[hybrid]

na tsempuhan mo lang na may slight defect siguro yung seagate mo, usually matibay talaga yan

[chris_d]

We have 3 computers at home, the hard disc my dad currently uses came from my old pc, its a Seagate 28.5gb 7200rpm drive, started use in November 1999. Up to now it is still working perfectly, no bad sectors.

Then around 2 years ago I purchased another seagate drive, this time 80gb 7200rpm, the drive failed after 3 mos., complete failure. It was eventually replaced with a new drive, same specs that developed bad sectors after over a year, however right now it does not show any bad sectors anymore.

I also have a Maxtor 40gb 5400rpm drive, 3 years old, it has problems every now and then, sometimes it would just crash and wont be detected by the BIOS, then sometimes it would work again.

I guess its really hard to say which brand is better. Next time I'm buying a disc it would probably be a Western Digital though.

[chieffy]

4 out of the 10 Seagate Barracuda's (7200rpm, 10GB) I have developed bad sectors after 3 years...yung isa lang ang di ko na maayos...mukhang normal na sa kanila iyan...now i shifted to Maxtor...wala pa naman problem after 1 year

[ILuvDetailing]

ILD, baka bumigay ang HD dahil sa mga peechures?

Dati tong data disk na ginawa kong system disk :twak: wala ng pictures or videos, thats why I always separate my data and system disk for cases like these. yung mga pictures and vids linipat ko na sa 80 gig HD sana tumagal na to.

By the way Western Digital has a 5 year Manufacturers warranty, di ko pa napapaayos, an layo kasi ng office nila.

[nugundam93]

same here, no issues with seagates. our oldest one is 7 years na and still doing okay.

western digital HDDs (for dell systems anyway) have the annoying tendency to fail way quickly. gah.