4th seagate HDD bites the dust WTF

sorry this is not exactly reaper related just thought i would mention that i just had my 4th seagate hdd die this year, just came back from warranty repair 1month ago, these hard drives werent in the same computer and there is no power problems, years ago when i worked in a place that sold computers the tech guy always swore by seagate, luckily i back up all the time and have not lost anything i was working on, just a few old clients files that were sitting around but it could ve been a disaster, 1 of the drives that failed was the external 1tb drive. they were all covered by warranty but it doesnt matter when its data. what hard drives are people using for thier music, i want to look into getting something that has a good track record these days. sorry for the off topic rant

Yikes! Hard drive failures hurt. x_x Were these all the same model? Usually the model matters more than the brand, as any manufacturer has failure-prone hard drive models. That said, WD Caviar Blue or Black are good. Stay away from the Green series, though. In fact, I would steer clear of any hard drive that sells itself as a "green" or otherwise eco-friendly hard drive. More trouble than they're worth.

WD all the way. Have way fewer problems with these guys in the server rooms at my day job than anything else currently.

Perhaps you could share some more info on which Seagate models have failed? Were they internal or external? FWIW, I have quite a few Barracudas of different vintages (the oldest is 9 years old) in different machines and have had no failures to date with the exception of one that failed to format after installation about 7 years ago but it was replaced the vendor as DOA.

I had nothing but trouble with Seagate drives. I switched to WD caviar drives and have had really good luck with them. I still have a 40 GB WD drive that I bought in 1998. It has Win95 on it no less. Not a single bad sector on it. I have it in an enclosure and can access it through USB (by default it was a PATA). I have other drives that are newer that have been just as reliable.

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Yep, I've been there. I've had a couple Seagates die on me, one of which was a very expensive SCSI drive (Back in the day) Sucks :(

Two things... 1) I've seen drives fail equally across most brands. 2) Heat kills hard drives. Any chance they are not properly cooled? My drive failures stopped, regardless of brand once I was able to keep them cool enough. Karbo

I've never had a complete hard drive failure in 14 years of computing, and my current workstation uses a mixture of WD, Seagates and Samsung BUT they are protected from vibration and sit behind a 120mm cooling fan.