Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB has high failure rate

[polkatese]

All,

I bought this HDD from one of the member here. It was working great for about 3 months, before it started to lock up and frozen, and require a reboot. Well, initially when I started to have this problem, I thought it was because of heat (I used it as an external HDD for DirecTV HR20) and bought a ThermalTake Max 4 (with active cooling fan) to try to resolve the heat problem. No dice, it is still locking up. Upon further research, it appears that this drive has known problems (DOA, firmware issue, etc.):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274

Lesson learned, I guess. Price is now $140 at NewEgg (which is a very good price, considering WD 1TB is about $239.)

Anyone has tried any of the 1TB SATA drive and would recommend one?

[disneyjoe7]

Hard Drive for a DVR will tell you very fast what HDD are iffy. I think still Maxtor drives work the best in a DVR, they are never sleep there always working.

[shadowofnight]

Hard Drive for a DVR will tell you very fast what HDD are iffy. I think still Maxtor drives work the best in a DVR, they are never sleep there always working.


FYI....I have bought 3 or 4 retail boxed Maxtor hard drives ( Here at the local Staples , when I didnt feel like driving to Frys ) since Seagate bought Maxtor a couple years back, there have been nothing but Seagate drives inside of the Maxtor retail packaging.

One of those, mounted in an Antec external fan cooled case...has died already. Like you Steve, I also had a really good experience with the made by Maxtor drives....but these new generation made by Seagate have too many documented failures.

[disneyjoe7]

Well that's why I said "I think still Maxtor" are ok for a DVR. But I haven't brought a drive for a DVR in years. If I needed a drive I would go to www.tivocommunity.com to what people are saying now.

[shadowofnight]

The amazing thing was that for my Directv DVR they were recommending a Western Digital drive....hopefully something changed because when I was doing a lot of PC's, the WD's had the worst reliability for me as well as others I knew.

[trans am]

I have 2 7200.11 in raid 0 and have no problems.
Like all PC hardware, it's luck of the draw. I personally Like Samsung F1 1TB.
Maxtor is utter crap.

[polkatese]

ok. so rather than waiting for the Seagate to completely bite the dust, I ordered a WD 1TB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284) to replace it. I am going to use Disc Copy 2.0 (http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/) to do a sector-by-sector from the Seagate to WD.

Will it work?

[kuntasensei]

My new PC came with two Seagate 7200.10 360gb drives. After about a week, I started to occasionally hear the drive head clack - a bad sign. Sure enough, 5 weeks after I got the PC, the master drive failed.

Fortunately, HP was out of the Seagates and sent me a Hitachi 500gb to replace it. Couldn't be happier! I normally stick to Western Digital, but I have to say that this Hitachi is doing the trick.

[polkatese]

Question: on a Sector-by-Sector copy, technically it creates an identical clone HDD (size is the same, 1TB) of the source HDD, correct? I started the cloning, it will be a while, thought I asked. TIA.

[Sherardp]

Western Digital all the way baby. I have a 2 150's and a Maxtor 500 gb.

[doctorcilantro]

I've been using the WD "Green" 1 TB drives for a while, none have failed. They are pretty quiet.

Isn't Maxtor owned by WD now?

DC

[polkatese]

Maxtor is owned by Seagate, DC

[disneyjoe7]

Ok I need a drive :( My 250g drive died last night, my old 160g I thought was ok isn't can't even low level format that one. The 250g just died and now just clanks.


What's good now a days? 250g to 500g IDE.

[disneyjoe7]

Well got my old TiVo working :) again with a 400g IDE Seagate drive, do I need to cross my fingers on this one?