I hate Seagate!

**John Bowden** · #1 03-11-2013, 11:24 PM

I have NEVER had good luck with Seagate drives. The one in my main laptop crapped out tonight.

I will never use a Seagate again!

I'm pretty sure I will be able to get my files off it, but after I do it will not go into anything I have.

When I started building PC, way back when a 386SX2 was the bomb, the guy that showed me how everything went together used to call them "boat anchors". Not true now, they are too small now to make good boat anchors.

Anyway........ that's my fault for trying not switching it out when I fixed the laptop.

john

spaceagent-9 · #2 03-11-2013, 11:50 PM

me too, and i worked for seagate in scotts valley in 1985! and they were crap then too!

**Darwin** · #3 03-12-2013, 12:09 AM

The one that has me cursing a blue streak is a Western Digital...it isn't just Seagate drives.

**Alcides** · #4 03-12-2013, 06:06 AM

As IT Professional with 20 years working with big databases and storage I can say you: " A disk is going to fail sooner or later". Just make backup or have or files on 2 or more different devices.
The hard disk is a mechanical device which is going to fail at some point.

**Swampfox** · #5 03-12-2013, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alcides

As IT Professional with 20 years working with big databases and storage I can say you: " A disk is going to fail sooner or later". Just make backup or have or files on 2 or more different devices.
The hard disk is a mechanical device which is going to fail at some point.

BINGO!

After 35 years of loosing data to failed hard drives, I finally bought two separate units. I backup onto both. So far haven't lost anything. I think its time to buy that 3rd drive. Thanks for the reminder.

sFX

**ProjectKITT** · #6 03-12-2013, 09:05 AM

Interesting... My hard drive just started acting up yesterday; it's done it before but is very intermittent. Judging by prior behavior it probably won't do it again for months so I'm glad I recorded it this time... it makes a very faint knocking sound once every 5 seconds or so, and it will keep it up for around a half hour. Yet the computer acts fine throughout all this

**Alcides** · #7 03-12-2013, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ProjectKITT

Interesting... My hard drive just started acting up yesterday; it's done it before but is very intermittent. Judging by prior behavior it probably won't do it again for months so I'm glad I recorded it this time... it makes a very faint knocking sound once every 5 seconds or so, and it will keep it up for around a half hour. Yet the computer acts fine throughout all this

My recommendation is do a backup NOW!!! The disk can't stop at any moment, yeah maybe can do it for a year but you're in high risk to lost everything.

**goodduck** · #8 03-12-2013, 11:37 AM

I love Seagate portable. Running 2 freeagent portable for each my laptops. My desktop at home running 2, too. I backup, backup and backup and backup the backup. Working great for me for yrs now.

**airdave** · #9 03-12-2013, 12:16 PM

Yeah, I haven't had any worse luck with Seagate over say, WD.

Both of these companies sell value priced harddrives, as well as better
quality stuff...so be careful about what you are purchasing and what to
really expect from the drives.

I've got one of those little "Passport" drives (a 320gb).
I think they are made by WD?
I really like it better than my full size WD drives that I have attached to my TV.
I will be replacing those with a couple of the smaller portable Passports.

**DWest** · #10 03-12-2013, 12:19 PM

Oops, I have two of them, a 2TB and a 500GB. They work okay but the 2TB does make some strange noises once in a while.