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I've been building PC's since I was about 14. I've been a Western Digital user the entire time, without a single drive failure.
Last night though, just before 5am, my PC unexpectedly froze (never happens). Upon reboot I hear a weird repetitive scratching, immediately recognised as my 36gb 16mb Raptor having a heart attack.
So dissapointing... but I guess my touble-free decade-long run had to end at some point. :(
better a 36gb drive than a full storage drive ;)
Yer - I use small drives for my Windows operation for this exact reason... all of my important data (work, apps, games, movies, music etc.) are stored on alternate internal and external drives.
My storage drivers are pretty regularly upgraded/replaced (once every 1-2 years?) due to need for more space. I don't really give my storage drives enough use or time to actually fail. :P
I've got some 7 year old drives in my PC that havent given me any hassle yet, one Seagate one WD.
i had a WD that lasted me ages.. 40 gig raided for a while.. died after the 7th year i think
i have 2 samsung 200 gig drives that i put in raid and one failed so i copied the data off to a new drive and then the 2nd one died .
samsung = evil hard disks
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samsung = evil hard disks
That's funny, Samsung is the only brand HDD that hasn't gone "clunk" on me. HDD's are just like every other computer parts, there's always a bad batch :/
i musta got a bad series then because my 320 gig did the same lol but it got replaced under warranty for a seagate
YAY!
I got a good old Quantum fireball that i still use, 10 years old and 3128Mb ftw! Still works flawlessly
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That's funny, Samsung is the only brand HDD that hasn't gone "clunk" on me. HDD's are just like every other computer parts, there's always a bad batch :/
*Thinks of Flamm and MSI boards*
I've seen lots of trouble with Samsung drives, with many people. They make good TV's and good mobile phones, and that's the end of it. :)
Off topic, how about Samsung fridges?
return rate on samsung hdd's is 1.5 - 2%. you can talk about your experiences all you want, this is hard data from a national distributor of samsung hdd's, based on thousands of sales.
I've actually had a pretty good run with Samsung.
Though I did have one 74gig Raptor die on me, but it was murdered by my 680i chipset.
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return rate on samsung hdd's is 1.5 - 2%. you can talk about your experiences all you want, this is hard data from a national distributor of samsung hdd's, based on thousands of sales.
6 of 1, half dozen, imo. if you're selling thousands of them, and 1 in 50 is failing - that's alot of unhappy customers.
that's not to say it's not the same for other manufacturers though. it probably is ;)
That's an exceedingly low failure rate for computer hardware, unfortunately. It is slightly lower than seagates return rate. Don't have any data for other manufacturers.