Page 1 of September HDD reliabily reports

http://www.zdnet.com/who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-disk-drives-backblaze-has-updated-its-stats-7000034008/

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Compared with January, the failure rate of Seagate 3TB drives has climbed from 9 percent to 15 percent, while the failure rate of Western Digital 3TB drives has jumped from 4 percent to 7 percent. As the chart below shows, only the more expensive Hitachi Deskstars — a brand that started life at IBM — have shown an improvement.

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Hitachi drives are beasts. I have a 9 year old 500GB Hitachi drive that worked flawlessly until I installed my first SSD last month.

It's still working like a boss, albeit enjoying a happy retirement as my music drive.

my work PC primary hard drive, a 500gb WD is dieing, nearly 3 years old :(

Seagate as the secondary, which is 2 years old or so, wow, I'm filled with confidence in my PC now ;)

Guess after I've finished copying stuff from the Western Digital to the Seagate I'll find somewhere on the network to copy several hundred gigs worth of VMs!

yay, got my hard drive replaced, along with the rest of my PC :) Some new PCs arrived, so I got bumped up the waiting list :)

2 Seagate drives, fingers crossed.

looks like the Samsung hard drive in my desktop at home is on its last legs :(
(it was only a matter of time ;) http://www.myreviewer.com/Forums/PCs-and-Mobiles/t854892/Who-do-we-like-for-hard-drives-now/page1


was trying to work out how old it was, thought, hmmn, must be at least 3 years, then realised I've been at this job 3 years, then bought it before last job, so must be 5 years or so, looking back through the threads here, it's about 8 years old, 'cos I bought it to replace the HDD that was erroring in my Mesh PC, which started to fail in just under 1 year! I forget which make that was, I have a  feeling it was a Maxtor. There's probably a thread about it :) edit: yes there is

there's also a seagate in there, I don't use that PC much these days, WinXP is installed on the Samsung, Linux Mint on the Seagate so I should be able to get stuff off ok.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014, 12:33

been running all day, I think it's bad :(

lol, I'm unlucky :)

The seagate is failing now, at least it was nice enough to give me a SMART warning, the drive is partitioned into swap 1 partition for lubuntu, 1 for mint, 1 for home, and 2 ntfs ones, lubuntu freezes now and again and on starting in the console it gave a nice message about sda6 cluster blah blah.

was about to grumble how "they don't last like they used to", then realised, its older than the girls, who are 3 and a bit, then found the post above, and this hd was the replacement from Mesh, so it's pretty old!

"luckily" I have the hdd from the dead laptop I can put in, I've ordered a plastic bracket from ebay for a couple of quid to mount it.

on hukd I saw you can get a SSD for £45 250gb, so I guess that will be next replacement. I hardly use this pc now, otherwise I would have just ordered that :)