- Mar 7, 2013
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Seagate is the worst HDD manufacturer that I’ve dealt with, by far! My Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB External HDD was the first thing to stop working this year. It just quit without warning and I lost all my information. (I know it’s bad to have only one back-up, but I was building a new computer so I shipped my laptop to my brother in the Marines. By the time my new machine was built, the GoFlex had given up. Big inconvenience, but not pissed… yet.)
Later on, said computer is built and was running flawlessly. The system ran on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, (ST31000528AS) and all was well for maybe a month. Then I start hearing a clicking sound from inside the tower. After determining that cables weren’t being sucked into cooling fans, I did some research and concluded that it was my HDD. (So many people are having this problem, it’s unreal!) I performed a disk check and installed the latest firmware for this device via Seagate's website. Problem solved.
Moving on a week or two, I purchased BioShock Infinite and played it, for hours
(Do yourself a favor and play this beautiful game sometime!) Shortly before going to bed, the COMPUTER CRASHES. WTF?! (My temps have all been great under 12 hour torture tests in Prime95.) I wait about 20 seconds and reboot the computer... I either get stuck at the BIOS screen, or I’m told to insert a “bootable device” meanwhile my HDD is clicking away with agony.
Seagate, you suck!!! Now I have to start from scratch, again. Thankfully I have a 200GB back-up slave HDD with system reload files and the sort, but this is just terrible. I have to save for a replacement master HDD and wait for it to arrive, possibly sometime in the next month! Now instead of minding my own business and just having a pleasant day off, I’m writing this warning to anyone considering a Seagate HDD.
DON’T BUY SEGATE, EVER!!!
Later on, said computer is built and was running flawlessly. The system ran on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, (ST31000528AS) and all was well for maybe a month. Then I start hearing a clicking sound from inside the tower. After determining that cables weren’t being sucked into cooling fans, I did some research and concluded that it was my HDD. (So many people are having this problem, it’s unreal!) I performed a disk check and installed the latest firmware for this device via Seagate's website. Problem solved.
Moving on a week or two, I purchased BioShock Infinite and played it, for hours
(Do yourself a favor and play this beautiful game sometime!) Shortly before going to bed, the COMPUTER CRASHES. WTF?! (My temps have all been great under 12 hour torture tests in Prime95.) I wait about 20 seconds and reboot the computer... I either get stuck at the BIOS screen, or I’m told to insert a “bootable device” meanwhile my HDD is clicking away with agony.Seagate, you suck!!! Now I have to start from scratch, again. Thankfully I have a 200GB back-up slave HDD with system reload files and the sort, but this is just terrible. I have to save for a replacement master HDD and wait for it to arrive, possibly sometime in the next month! Now instead of minding my own business and just having a pleasant day off, I’m writing this warning to anyone considering a Seagate HDD.
DON’T BUY SEGATE, EVER!!!
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