Seagate 7200.11 issues

Zirax · 16-11-2008, 00:10

Well this is the second one that's died in a matter of months. Not really impressed at all. Essentially it was just sitting there and then nope, dead. This really underlines the importance of raid combined with proper backups.

It seems that Seagate is going through a bad spell like Maxtor with these 7200.11's.

Mark · 16-11-2008, 00:24

Yeah, they are. I saw loads of reports of the new 1.5TB models failing due to firmware issues, then I went looking and discovered other models were afflicted with controller issues too. Apparently Samsung aren't doing much better, which is a shame as Spinpoints used to be my drive of choice.

That pretty much leaves WD and Hitachi (one-time purveyor of the Deathstar 'brand').

Toby · 16-11-2008, 00:41

Seagate seem to be going downhill lately. They had a load of problems with noisy bearings on some of their drives (remember the green versus pink goop debate?) and now I've read of quite a few problems with the 7200.11s.

I'm more than happy with the Hitachi and Samsung drives in my machine atm, despite many claiming these are the worst drives in the world

phykell · 16-11-2008, 01:58

I buy Seagate fairly regularly though I've been buying their ES.2 enterprise SATA drives for NAS units which are then used for offsite, online backups. Of the twelve I've bought only one has failed and that's just because the NAS' RAID controller decided it should be replaced rather than an actual failure. It's odd then that people are experiencing so many problems - as far as I'm aware their consumer-level units should match their enterprise ones for reliability as long as they're used for consumer-level tasks. A failure of a consumer unit used as a high availability, multi-user drive would be much more likely of course.

I hope Seagate's QC and product quality isn't really going down the pan as they've always been the best of all the manufacturers over the years

Zirax · 16-11-2008, 13:37

I had heard good things about Seagates. Before then I used to be a die hard Maxtor fan (until their hdds were dodgy).

To help everyone with their conditions during use.... Both that have gone have been 500gb ones, so around a year old. Only really light use as they were storage drives. They always had a 120mm fan turning over them and were kept very cool.

That being said the Western Digitals I brought two of are going fine (RE2 or 3). Not really a fair comparison I know. I am starting to see hdd failures being a lot more common

16-11-2008, 00:10	#1
Zirax Goes up to 11! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,577	Seagate 7200.11 issues Well this is the second one that's died in a matter of months. Not really impressed at all. Essentially it was just sitting there and then nope, dead. This really underlines the importance of raid combined with proper backups. It seems that Seagate is going through a bad spell like Maxtor with these 7200.11's.

16-11-2008, 00:41	#3
Toby Absinthe Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,023	Seagate seem to be going downhill lately. They had a load of problems with noisy bearings on some of their drives (remember the green versus pink goop debate?) and now I've read of quite a few problems with the 7200.11s. I'm more than happy with the Hitachi and Samsung drives in my machine atm, despite many claiming these are the worst drives in the world __________________

16-11-2008, 01:58	#4
phykell Vodka Martini Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 833	I buy Seagate fairly regularly though I've been buying their ES.2 enterprise SATA drives for NAS units which are then used for offsite, online backups. Of the twelve I've bought only one has failed and that's just because the NAS' RAID controller decided it should be replaced rather than an actual failure. It's odd then that people are experiencing so many problems - as far as I'm aware their consumer-level units should match their enterprise ones for reliability as long as they're used for consumer-level tasks. A failure of a consumer unit used as a high availability, multi-user drive would be much more likely of course. I hope Seagate's QC and product quality isn't really going down the pan as they've always been the best of all the manufacturers over the years __________________

16-11-2008, 00:24	#2
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Yeah, they are. I saw loads of reports of the new 1.5TB models failing due to firmware issues, then I went looking and discovered other models were afflicted with controller issues too. Apparently Samsung aren't doing much better, which is a shame as Spinpoints used to be my drive of choice. That pretty much leaves WD and Hitachi (one-time purveyor of the Deathstar 'brand').

16-11-2008, 13:37	#5
Zirax Goes up to 11! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,577	I had heard good things about Seagates. Before then I used to be a die hard Maxtor fan (until their hdds were dodgy). To help everyone with their conditions during use.... Both that have gone have been 500gb ones, so around a year old. Only really light use as they were storage drives. They always had a 120mm fan turning over them and were kept very cool. That being said the Western Digitals I brought two of are going fine (RE2 or 3). Not really a fair comparison I know. I am starting to see hdd failures being a lot more common