On Wednesday 11 March 2009 18:00:05 Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Andy Random <andy.random@???> [2009-03-11 13:28]:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> > > 2009/3/11 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> > >> For the record the disk did not show up on the PC, no lights, no spin
> > >> up nothing, attached another sata hard disk to the PC and the PC saw
> > >> the disk and was happy to use it.
> > >
> > > What make/model of disk is it?
> >
> > It's not a Seagate drive is it?
> >
> > We've had all kinds of grief in the office with 500GB-1TB Seagate drives
> > recently...
> >
> > 2 out of 10 500GB drives failed in less than 6 months.
> >
> > 5 out of 7 750GB drives failed in under a month!
> >
> > 1 out of 1 1TB drives failed within a week.
> >
> > To be fair they have all been replaced under warranty, but we are no
> > longer buying Seagate drives, at least until they resolve their firmware
> > problems, see:
> >
> > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagates_second_fault_fix/
> >
> > To determine whether your product is affected, please visit the
> > Seagate Support web site at
> >
> > http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931
> > It assures users that data is still on the drive and is working with
> > customers affected with any unrecoverable data 'to expedite a remedy.'
>
> ** end quote [Andy Random]
>
> I guess that's what comes of taking over Maxtor. I have to say I was
> somewhat annoyed to find Seagate had done that just as I'd finally given
> up on the reliability of Maxtor drives and switched to Seagate!! Time to
> take a closer look at WD, Samsung and Hitachi I guess, but each
> manufacturer seems to go through a bad patch every now and then. Then,
> excepting the case of Fujitsu, then tend to sort themselves out and
> recover (well, Fujitsu still do SCSI drives I suppose).
>
You might want to give Samsung a miss then, this drive is about 14 months old
and has fairly light use
Tim
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