Seagate Hard Drives

[Nishant]

Seagate was once considered as pioneers in hard drives. But since the last couple of years, their quality has gone down considerably. I have personally experienced this. I had around 4 - 5 seagate hard drives, and all of them crashed within 2 yrs and I had to send it for replacement. Though they used to give 5 yrs warranty, but people are more concerned about data loss that happens when a HDD crashes. Finally I decided to switch to Western Digital and I am amazed to see the quality of the hard drives. I'm using WD Hard Drives since the last 4 yrs and none of them have crashed even once. Strangely all the HDD manufacturers have reduced the warranty period to 3 yrs too.Have anybody faced such issues with Seagate hard drives? I have read a lot about Seagate hard drives crashing within warranty period at many places in the internet.Please share your experiences here....

 

[Sushubh]

i only use seagate barracuda here. have not had a single crash in the last 3-4 years. i do use my computer rather aggressively. i tend to retire my hard disks after 2-3 years because of space constraints.

 

[dhoni]

My friend's Seagate Hard disk failed within 3 months. He got some repaired hard disk as replacement.

 

[saurabh28]

Even, mine seagate HDD crashed in 4 yrs.(thats bearable)Now, on Western Digital.

 

[cyberwiz]

i had a couple of seagate's that crashed within a 2 yr span

 

[Rock21]

My seagate hard drive crashed in an year, but it was due to my fault .

 

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[zeo]

Used a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (IDE) 80GB hard disk for around 5 years without any problem until I upgraded to a new PC.Currently using a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB one (SATA) for more than a year & counting (fingers crossed).

 

[ghpk]

its just not the brand, Power fluctuations can be a major cause of HDD crash.I am happy with seagate and one should try to use multiple HDD in desktopThis way u have atleast one backup in case a HDD crash occurs.

 

[Sushubh]

and if the data is very important to you... keep an offsite backup. i recommend backblaze.

 

[ghpk]

^^ thanks for sharing, Until one's HDD crashes, every-one considers his Comp as Best and fail proof....I saved one of my friend from Data loss, who has a business and most records were on laptop only, even after being a huge accounts work. he never backed it to external location, he praises me now as I almost forced him to buy a external HDD.one fine day his laptop HDD conked off and he was glad he had backup with him which is now synced multiple times a dayLesson learned and he would not take it as a Joke anymore.Oops time to sync and sleep now