Hard Disk Dying Again!

[Trancendental]

My Other IBM/Hitachi is on its way out.

I can hear the familiar sounds.

Why would a manufacturer make a Disk that don't last? dont they realise companies might have valuable porn on there and if they lost it will never buy another product with their names on it?

I really can't be asked to buy a new disk again so soon.

 

[ChrisUK]

LOL this is where they got there dreded name from . Its almost as if they have a set date / time when they fail as it did it on my Fiancee's brother computer. The main hdd failed then secondary went a week later! both IBM Deskstar's.

 

[custard]

must admit i wasnt overly impressed with the deskstars i used.noisy as well

 

[Trancendental]

I thought "IBM" where the "computer people" as in a respectable name who knew their stuff.

This is a fine example of why not to just buy Name Brands. Learn through experience though, albeit a costly experience :bang:

 

[custard]

never had probs with maxtor so tend to stick with them though one of my xbox's runs an WD 250gb with no issues

 

[jug]

i only use seagate.

 

[Hellcat]

LOL this is where they got there dreded name from . Its almost as if they have a set date / time when they fail as it did it on my Fiancee's brother computer. The main hdd failed then secondary went a week later! both IBM Deskstar's.

You mean the 'deathstar'

Samsung Spinpoint seem pretty decent for their price. I've had one Maxtor die after a lot of use. My other Maxtor is fine at the moment.

Now got my 36GB 10,000rpm scsi drives.. hehe

 

[Stu DemonD]

I got another 320Gb Maxtor recently, and on the bottom, it is made by Seagate - I was in the shop, and we compared the same spec 'Seagate' next to it - only difference was the price.

 

[Chas Uno]

Trans, is this the new hard drive you've just installed? If so, surely it's still under guarantee? Better get it backed up though before the information disappears, then go and have a right moan at the place you bought it from.

 

[Si]

Trans, is this the new hard drive you've just installed? If so, surely it's still under guarantee? Better get it backed up though before the information disappears, then go and have a right moan at the place you bought it from.

:yeahthat:
However IBM drives aren't fantastic. Personally use WD and never had issues.

 

[Trancendental]

Trans, is this the new hard drive you've just installed? If so, surely it's still under guarantee? Better get it backed up though before the information disappears, then go and have a right moan at the place you bought it from.

No tis the other disk I bought soon after I bought the first one for more space, when I made the purchase I bought the same manufacture, just a larger size.

It should still have a couple months of life left on it still considering what happened to the last one of the same type.

I can't afford a new Disk just yet, I am contesting a Bus lane fine so may have to pay up large amounts for that

Someone sort me a winning lotto Ticket, I want to earn more money but no one wants to employ me

 

[doblo]

My hard drives are IBM & Seagate. The important thing is to back up everything that is valuable.

 

[ChrisUK]

They were not actually manufactured by IBM they where sub contracted to some poor excuse of a factory in taiwan! . Now they sell under the Hitachi brand STAY AWAY! .

Yeah both WD and Maxtor rate highly in my books. Before I started my last job all the server HDD's where Hitachi / IBM I then put in a Po for 25 WD's the first week I was there lol I then replaced them all one by one but wasn't fast enough there was one Maxtor and it failed the day before I was gonna replace it .

I dont backup my data on my home computer I have a seprate partition using a RAID 1 array on 2 disks and ive kept my data since 1997 I still have my first Mp3 I downloaded off Napster (aww the memorys ).