Thread: Useful data for system builders

Using a 500GB Seagate HDD, since 2009...no issues so far.

I still have an OG WD 74GB Raptor alive and kicking as a backup drive. Sure it makes a lot of noise when it starts spinning but its still doing the job after 10 years...

no drive was as bad as the old Quantum Bigfoots. I think I saw more of those fail than were even sold. It's like they spawned little failing versions of themselves when you weren't looking.

Originally Posted by Gumby

Of the drives I have owned myself, only a 20GB IBM Deathstar went bad. I have replaced at least 20 of every brand for customers though. None are better than others IMHO but the Fujitsu notebook drives in the early 2000s were definitely worse than average as were the aforementioned IBM Deskstars.

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Originally Posted by Gumby

Of the drives I have owned myself, only a 20GB IBM Deathstar went bad. I have replaced at least 20 of every brand for customers though. None are better than others IMHO but the Fujitsu notebook drives in the early 2000s were definitely worse than average as were the aforementioned IBM Deskstars.

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That is pretty funny too because my favorite notebook of all time was my Fujitsu Lifebook. I bought it in 2005-2006 maybe? It was back when I was doing some hard core programming courses and the 17" notebook with the 10 key were pretty much a requirement.

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

no drive was as bad as the old Quantum Bigfoots. I think I saw more of those fail than were even sold. It's like they spawned little failing versions of themselves when you weren't looking.

Totally forgot about those. Yep those were the worst. At the computer shop I worked at back then we kept a bunch of controller boards for those around so we could save people's data. There was a Lucent chip on the boards that got crazy hot and would explode. So we would swap ours onto the customer's drive just long enough to get the data onto something else.

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Ok that was interesting. I support over 4000 desktop PCs at work. Our old Dells had those 20 gig Deathstars... errr Deskstars. Not a single one of us techs would EVER buy one of those. They were horrendous.

Everything WD I've ever used is still running today lol. Great hardware.

I've never experienced a better customer service though than Intel's warranty rma process for SSDs though.

I had one die and they had a brand new one at my doorstep three days from me dropping the dead one in the mailbox, after spending less than five minutes in a live chat with a customer service rep.