Re: Hard Disk Reliability

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:12:52 -0800, Hari Hari Mau thoughfully wrote:

I have had a string of bad luck getting good hard disk.

My PC's original 320GB HD is okay. Still working today.

Since I'm doing 3D simulation, 320GB HD just isn't enough. So I added a
Seagate 500GB HD to my PC.

That Seagate gave me lots of problems.

Got a replacement from Seagate and still lots of problems.

Later I read somewhere that Seagate's 500GB HD has some kind of defect.

So okay, I bought a WD 640GB HD as a replacement, and copied all the
data over from the Seagate 500GB HD.

This WD 640GB HD is even worse !

There are times the WD 640GB just refuse to start. The BIOS takes
forever to detect it.

And yes, someone told me that maybe my PSU doesn't have enough juice to
power either the Seagate or the WD, for that I bought a 650 W Corsair
PSU and put it into my PC.

But the problem with 500GB and/or 640GB HD still remains.

My huge amount of data means I have to have huge capacity HD. I am
seriously thinking of getting a TB HD and get rid of both the 500GB
Seagate and 640GB WD.

However, I'm kinda worried.

My bad experience with both the Seagate and WD makes me wonder what's
going on with Huge Capacity HD.

Anyone here using TB HD? What's your experience with it? Does TB HD
gives you any trouble?

What's your recommendation on getting TB HD? Which brand / model ?

Please help.

Thank you !!

Had a few problems with Seagate 320 myself, had to get firmware update
from Seagate which improved performance. You should look into external
an external 1TB drive.

BTW, you haven't described the problems or symptoms with your drives.
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