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eclipso:
I always love reading how we have all had diffrent experiences with diffrent companies equipment. I personally have had nothing but issues with WD and Maxtor (pre-Seagate) drives and have never had any problems with any of my Seagates; although when I went out and bought my TB drives I was a little hesitant knowing that Maxtor and them had merged but I still bought them and have had no issues with these drives either.
bpark42:

--- Quote from: eclipso on March 18, 2010, 07:50:41 am ---I always love reading how we have all had diffrent experiences with diffrent companies equipment. I personally have had nothing but issues with WD and Maxtor (pre-Seagate) drives and have never had any problems with any of my Seagates; although when I went out and bought my TB drives I was a little hesitant knowing that Maxtor and them had merged but I still bought them and have had no issues with these drives either.

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More evidence that pretty much none of the consumer drives out there can be considered reliable.

As for your Seagate TB drives, I strongly recommend you check the firmware versions on them.  As I said previously, there was a widespread issue with Seagate drives not too long ago, and it was mostly with their 1TB and 1.5TB drives.  If the drives are on any of the affected firmware versions, you have the problem.  The fact that you haven't had any issues yet means nothing.  Basically the drives are ticking time bombs.  One day you will power up and the drive will get stuck in a busy state.  The symptoms are: the drive will spin continuously (you can generally hear it), the hard drive activity light will go on and stay on, and the BIOS (and the OS, obviously) will fail to detect the drive.
eclipso:

--- Quote from: bpark42 on March 18, 2010, 12:57:26 pm ---More evidence that pretty much none of the consumer drives out there can be considered reliable.

As for your Seagate TB drives, I strongly recommend you check the firmware versions on them.  As I said previously, there was a widespread issue with Seagate drives not too long ago, and it was mostly with their 1TB and 1.5TB drives.  If the drives are on any of the affected firmware versions, you have the problem.  The fact that you haven't had any issues yet means nothing.  Basically the drives are ticking time bombs.  One day you will power up and the drive will get stuck in a busy state.  The symptoms are: the drive will spin continuously (you can generally hear it), the hard drive activity light will go on and stay on, and the BIOS (and the OS, obviously) will fail to detect the drive.

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Your absolutly correct, consumer products in this day and age just are not made like they were say 15 years ago. I actually did read about the firmware issue when I was looking into the TB drives and I am in the "clear" as far as that goes.
Haze:

--- Quote from: eclipso on March 18, 2010, 06:42:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: bpark42 on March 18, 2010, 12:57:26 pm ---More evidence that pretty much none of the consumer drives out there can be considered reliable.

As for your Seagate TB drives, I strongly recommend you check the firmware versions on them.  As I said previously, there was a widespread issue with Seagate drives not too long ago, and it was mostly with their 1TB and 1.5TB drives.  If the drives are on any of the affected firmware versions, you have the problem.  The fact that you haven't had any issues yet means nothing.  Basically the drives are ticking time bombs.  One day you will power up and the drive will get stuck in a busy state.  The symptoms are: the drive will spin continuously (you can generally hear it), the hard drive activity light will go on and stay on, and the BIOS (and the OS, obviously) will fail to detect the drive.

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Your absolutly correct, consumer products in this day and age just are not made like they were say 15 years ago. I actually did read about the firmware issue when I was looking into the TB drives and I am in the "clear" as far as that goes.

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Yeah my drives were clear as well, they're still ticking timebombs, they run very, very hot even with cooling good enough to keep any other drives i've had running cool.  I'd avoid their current range at all costs simply due to that.
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