Seagate Users

[ILuvDetailing]

My Seagate HD (40Gig Barracuba ATA) just died on me this morning after a little over 3 years of service... is this normal for a seagate? I'm hoping that it would last me at least 5 years. I partitioned it a couple of times, could this be the cause of its shortened lifespan? It was used before as my datadisk, after my Western Digital broke down I used this as my system disk.

Fellow Seagate users, please share your experience.

[Innova_Boy]

Well seagate HD are so tough now that they made it have a warranty of five years since 3rd qtr 2004 i think...on your case maybe it's on case to case basis.. i have here seagte 2.1 GB maybe more than 5 years and still usable and my computer is On from 9Am up to 8 pm everyday 365 days a year...HTH..

WBR,

[BlueBimmer]

80% of my harddisks are seagate, in my experience it is much much more reliable than maxtor. 1 time lng nagkaproblema seagate sakin, maxtor more than 7 times na replaced under warranty. Hitachi HDs for notebooks too are notorious for bad sectors.

ok na yan 3 yrs although dpat talaga more than 5 yrs running yan with no problem..swertehan lng hehe

[artpogi]

well we've also encountered those problems with Seagate, but among western digital, maxtor and seagate, we still prefer seagate.

[pajerokid]

3years medy okay na yan siguro ILD.

[jaeger]

We used to specify Seagate drives for all 140 PCs in our office. Those made in China just fail right after their warranty period even if their spec sheets indicate MTBF (mean-time-before-failure) to be 10 times over. Those made in Singapore are a lot more durable - but mostly SCSI drives for our servers.

Since 2001, we have shifted to Maxtor drives for workstation PCs and so far, no failure yet, whatsoever, or are we just lucky with this batch. We still stick to Seagate SCSI (U160 & U320) drives for our servers - they're pretty tough (with rated MTBF of over 1 million hours), and with 100% reliability.

[chain]

lahat ng HD dito sa office Seagate.. and so far, no probs.. mga 3-4 years na din yung iba. ok na din kahit papaano yung 3 years para sa HD mo, ILD.

[gearspeed]

Computer ko sa bahay Seagate ang HD na 120 GB..Wala naman problem ang hindi ko lang malaman bakit kapag binubuksan ko ang CPU ko merong ingay sa loob pero nawawala rin kaso may time iingay ulit siya..

[BoEinG_747]

Computer ko sa bahay Seagate ang HD na 120 GB..Wala naman problem ang hindi ko lang malaman bakit kapag binubuksan ko ang CPU ko merong ingay sa loob pero nawawala rin kaso may time iingay ulit siya..

IMO...may tama na hard disk mo ...in my case ganyan din experience ko sa Western DIgital ko .before nasira HD ko .may scracthing sounds everytime switch ON ko ang CPU..tumagal naman sa akin ng 4 yrs 80 GB nga pala HD ko .iyon last 2 yrs ay lagi sia naka on lang ..wala na halos patayan ..kaya solve na din ako sa service nito


Sir ILD,ok na rin ang serbisyo ng HD Mo ...tagal na rin non

[falken]

One of the Seagate drives on my computer came from my old computer, it's been used for 5 yrs. going on 6 na, so far no problem pa naman.