I hate Seagate

ebackhus · 12-11-2005, 01:29 AM

Seagate SUCKS. Period. They fail at life and at making hardware. I have never had a Seagate work for me and the one that was in my server died after only 2 months of light use. That's pathetic.

**Grove** · 12-11-2005, 02:54 AM

Uh oh .. So the Seagate I have installed now is not good ?

I've had mine for over a year now and its still running smoothly. No problem as of yet.

Chevy · 12-11-2005, 03:24 AM

Seagate use to be teh b0mb .... Once Connor bought them out (1994?), they went downhill.

**oldmn** · 12-11-2005, 10:42 AM

Fortunately they still have the best warranty. I have 4 Seagate's running at the moment One is 3 years old and runs 24/7. One of the 80's I have did give me some problems, sent it back and they sent me a drive that refused to format,

Called them up and had a replacement at no cost 3 days later.

Volt-Schwibe · 12-11-2005, 05:55 PM

oddly enough, i have nothing but good things to say about seagate.

western digital, i have mixed feelings about, and maxtor, i flat out hate them.

**Spatcher** · 12-11-2005, 07:27 PM

What about Hitachi? I almost bought one of those... *note my Black Friday rant*

ebackhus · 12-13-2005, 02:50 AM

Normally I buy WD but I needed a small drive cheap and as fast as possible so I grabbed one from TigerDirect. Won't do that again. Maxtor is also on my crap list as every Maxtor I've ever dealt with in any way was horrible.

crazijoe · 12-13-2005, 07:01 AM

I LOVE Seagate. Can't get enough of them.

I know I use WD in my personal machine but their reliability is to question. I my case performance rules out reliability.

I absolutley detess Maxtor.
Our new Dell Powervault is loaded with 8 146GB Maxtor drives. I cringe at the thought of it and wait ever-so-pateintly for one of the drives to fail and the RAID 5 to start rebuilding with the hot spare.

sinclair_tm · 12-14-2005, 12:26 AM

i've used all those, and ibm, and never had a problem. my mac has 3 maxtors with not prob. my win tower has 2 wd, all good. i have some old, old scsi seagates (like 500mb or less) in so old macs that have never ever had a problem. bought a 2gig scsi ibm for one of my macs, and it was fast and quite, loved it. put a hit is a build, and its still going. in fact i've only ever had one drive fail on me. it was a 4gig scsi seagate, but i got it used for cheap, and it lasted for about 6 months. when it did dies, i pulled it out and found that one of those little holes the hd manifactures cover with tape (that say warranty void if removed) was missing the tape. i ran the thing for 6 months open air! now thats what i call a good hd.

12-11-2005, 01:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,313 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	I hate Seagate Seagate SUCKS. Period. They fail at life and at making hardware. I have never had a Seagate work for me and the one that was in my server died after only 2 months of light use. That's pathetic. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.

12-11-2005, 02:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Grove Professor/Moderator, TSF Design School Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,383 OS: Windows Vista SP2 32bit	Uh oh .. So the Seagate I have installed now is not good ? I've had mine for over a year now and its still running smoothly. No problem as of yet. __________________ ========================================== Get Help: TSF Security Forum \| HijackThis \| MB's 5 Step Process Get Clean: AdAware SE \| Spybot S&D \| CWShredder \| Ewido \| CleanUp! Get Protected: SpywareBlaster \| SpywareGuard \| Windows Updates \| IE-SpyAd If TSF has helped you, please consider making a donation to help keep the board running.

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12-11-2005, 07:27 PM	#6 (permalink)
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12-11-2005, 03:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
Chevy Retired Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,452 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	Seagate use to be teh b0mb .... Once Connor bought them out (1994?), they went downhill.

12-13-2005, 02:50 AM	#7 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,313 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	Normally I buy WD but I needed a small drive cheap and as fast as possible so I grabbed one from TigerDirect. Won't do that again. Maxtor is also on my crap list as every Maxtor I've ever dealt with in any way was horrible. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.

12-13-2005, 07:01 AM	#8 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	I LOVE Seagate. Can't get enough of them. I know I use WD in my personal machine but their reliability is to question. I my case performance rules out reliability. I absolutley detess Maxtor. Our new Dell Powervault is loaded with 8 146GB Maxtor drives. I cringe at the thought of it and wait ever-so-pateintly for one of the drives to fail and the RAID 5 to start rebuilding with the hot spare. __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software