Screw Seagate!!!

**Gumby** · 05-09-10, 05:43 AM

maxtor got bought out eh?
Things you miss when you move from geek-squad type jobs to real IT work heh.

I knew that Quantum had been bought out, I thought it was by Maxtor though. I have seen many Quantum Fireball drives actually turn into fireballs. They had an LT chip on the controller board that would get very hot and explode. The computer shop I last worked at kept a bunch of controller boards for Fireballs on hand so we could recover customer's data from Fireballs that fireballed. I had also seen where Hitachi had taken over IBM's consumer grade drives. After 4 Deskstars (Deathstars) died on me in a span of one month, I was done with IBM drives forever.

**HeavyG** · 05-09-10, 10:01 AM

I have a Samsung drive laying around somewhere. I think it is either 500GB or 320GB, but it isn't the fast Samsung drive.

**GoreZiad** · 05-09-10, 10:08 AM

yeah same. i've had 5 seagate barracudas, each last under a year.

**Potemkine** · 05-09-10, 06:21 PM

thats odd, cause my 750GB 7.2K RPM baracuda is going on 3 years old, heavy use and now in its second computer and I havent had any issues yet.

**Kanati** · 05-09-10, 06:44 PM

As I said... 10% fail rate despite who the manufacturer is... You roll the dice every time you buy a drive. No getting around it (without paying a premium).

**kyle700** · 05-09-10, 06:51 PM

I had one like your Guyver, just died... about 1 and a half to 2 years of use. Lost all my stuff because none of it was backed up =/

**Gumby** · 05-10-10, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by kyle700

I had one like your Guyver, just died... about 1 and a half to 2 years of use. Lost all my stuff because none of it was backed up =/

Learn from Kyle. Back up early and often. Hardware is cheap. Data is irreplaceable. The latest versions of Windows make backing stuff up almost too easy. A big, fat, slow, cheap external drive could save you a lot of heartache.