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Steve Topilnycky Forum Administrator
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 | | 05 Apr 2009 04:05 AM |
| With my recent experience with Seagate, a company that I thought once produced a quality product, I would like to know what brand of hard drive would you trust your data on?
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wylovan
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 | | 07 Apr 2009 06:54 AM |
| This is a trick question, right? You should never trust any hard drive with your data - this is why you back up religiously. That being said I've had the best luck Hitachi, worst luck with Maxtor. | | http://www.wylovan.com http://blog.wylovan.com/pebble/wyatt | |
| Steve Topilnycky Forum Administrator
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 | | 10 Apr 2009 02:13 PM |
| In the past I had never had an issue with Seagate, but after this ordeal with them with 3 original drives failing and 1 replacement being shipped to me defective, I have second thoughts for sure.
The originally purpose of replacing my drives back in January was to avoid this very situation (see site news for the details). For the servers I have regular backups and that schedule has now been increased. I in the process of implementing a replication type copying of files and DB backups between machines. Also now both machines can take the place of each other, although performance will suffer.
Also Maxtor is now part of Seagate, and after this issue, there seems to be a lot of chatter of the pour quality of these drives.
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 | | 28 May 2009 04:40 AM |
| Here is an update on my Desktop Computer. Yesterday the newly replaced Seagate hard drive CRASHED AGAIN! . I have had it with Seagate. I will take the loss on the Hard Drive cost and I have ordered 3 new Hitachi Hard Drives. Once I get my Desktop back in order, I will be swapping out the Server hard drives. The time wasted dealiing with Seagate and having to constantly replace drives and cloning and restoring data is becoming counter productive and taking me away from other tasks and projects. Heed this warning, SEAGATE DRIVES are CRAP! See Site news forum for details on the main issues I have had with them. | | - - - - - - -
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