When did Seagate start to suck?
Seriously... I have bought five new Seagate drives over the last 12 months, about three hours ago the last of those drives died. This one lasted the shortest amount of time at just under a month.
I have two Seagates in another system that have been functioning flawlessly for a about five or six years now. This recent run has completely shattered the faith they built up in me over the years before that.
Anyhow, I lost about 60GB of music (waiting for DVD-Rs in the mail, they'll prolly arrive tomorrow) and yeah. Seagate has finally lost my business after nearly a decade of unwavering loyalty.
Bleh, and I just took my pissyness out on some newbie discussing the a new Windows shell.
But I digress, does anyone know if Seagate made some sort of corporate change that has lead to such poor QA or if I have just been on a remarkable unlucky streak. (most of the drives had been in different systems in different locations so it isn't like there are other factors involved).
cheers,
catch
Re: When did Seagate start to suck?
I've really never had a true problem with the actual HDD failing........ I'm 50-50 on the bad-luck -- corporate change. I mean harddrives are supposedly very reliable in our current time period for such a sensitive complex device. If I lost that many gigs of music I'd be livid. I'd probably wage an Internet smear campaign on that company with anecdotal evidence.
Were these refurbs or did you open them brand new?
As for the HDD coolers, if you don't mind the extra noise ( of course they make low DBM) add a fan, but seriously unless you have a stack of more than 3 15,000 rpm drives I wouldn't even bother. And this is coming from someone who watercools his s-478..... and soon will be using a phasechange system on a s-775.