Seagate Hard Drives Failing

Thursday, May 12, 2011 By Chris Hammond

I really wish I kept track of these things, so here it goes.

Today is May 11, 2011, I had a Seagate 2TB external hard drive fail today. It actually probably failed yesterday or before, but I just noticed it today. Prior to this I’ve had 2 750gb hard drives (both Seagates) fail on me. These previous failures occurred some time in the fall of 2009.

Fortunately for me the 2tb hard drive had recently been wiped clean (After backing up all the data to my Windows Home Server) except for my music that was being served through my Zune software. Fortunately any of the music that was on this drive is either a) already backed up on the WHS, or should be downloadable again through Zune.

I think I’m officially done with buying any Seagate hard drives ever again.

This one is going back under warranty, but I doubt I’ll trust it for much in the future when it gets returned. Hopefully this is the last blog post I ever make about Seagate Hard Drives failing….

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Fyi, my WD "Green" HDDs in my WHS are still going strong. I think it is because I took care with my WHS setup to ensure full ACHI and S.M.A.R.T support are enabled per drive (custom mobo, Hyper-V setup with pass-through disks). The drives are spun down the vast majority of the time. I can tell when I go play music or open the Blu-ray browser - there's a good 10 to 15s delay, I can hear all driver spinning up, and the lights dim! (ok, the lights don't dim but you get the idea that you need a good PSU that is able to withstand 8 HDDs spinning up at the same time).
Posted By: Eric DUncan on May 2011

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