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bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3649

Has anyone else experienced disk drive failures recently when using Seagate SATA or PATA drives? I am at about 25% failure in less than a year with an inventory of about 14 drives between my servers and home PCs. There are websites out there saying it is an issue and that Seagate is hiding the problem. I am wondering if others are truly having problems or if I've just had a streak of bad luck.

speedysk1 · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject:

I've only read about the problem, but I've heard that is true as well.
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GeoPierce · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:18 am Post subject:

Amazon Deal of the Day has a Seagate 1.5TB hard drive.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001NGOIJO/ref=xs_gb_AJWRO45Q3IXMP?pf_rd_p=441937901&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=20&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YFR1B0PRW4CGZ815XAS

Looks like it is the same kind everyone is having trouble with.

http://www.obsessable.com/news/2009/01/17/seagate-offers-solution-to-7200-11-hard-drive-failure-epidemic/

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126280

Thankfully, I haven't had any hard drives die except for our DVR but I think most of my drives are Western Digital.
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