Why do seagate drives always fail?

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I avoided Seagate because for awhile their drives were slower. But when the 7200.10 came out they been on fire ever since. In that time I've had Seagate and WD die on me. I've been mostly Seagate since the time of the 7200.10+ I'm currently running two Samsung SSDs, and two Seagate 4TB drives for storage. (with an old WD 2TB green drive for backups.) Again, I've had all kinds of drives die on me. Others I pull like my 250GB 7200.10 which ran my OS until I got my first SSD. That 250GB was in 24/7 use from 2005 up until about 2012 I think. Still works. 7+ years running the OS with lots of read/writes. Wouldn't call Seagate a bad drive maker.
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WyomingKnott

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I suspect that your experience is a coincidence, unless you are using the notorious Seagate 7200.11 drives. They stank.

But I may be wrong. Are you putting any exceptional workload on these? Using a desktop hard drive in a server? I've got half-a-dozen Seagates more than four years old and they all work.

What model(s) have failed you?
 
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The 7200.11 drives weren't bad. The larger ones had buggy firmware that was later upgraded.

WD drives fail. I've had several AAKS drives fail on me. Drives fail, it happens. I've had WD and Seagates die on me. I think the only drive I haven't had fail on me was that awesome 1TB hitachi drive. I retired it for size reasons and still have it around here somewhere. Obvious? Only thing Obvious to me is the occasional drive fails while others last until I need more space.
 
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skit75

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The drives that haunted me... IBM Deskstar (aka deathstars) and the click o' death.

I've taken apart quite a few hard drives at this point and I am still amazed at the amount of precision and engineering inside. Considering what one pays for these devices, I don't think I could ever complain about a failed drive. You would only have yourself to blame for loss of data. The manufacturers actually have excellent RMA, Warranty & customer services from my experience.
 
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yoji

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Are you a journalist? Such a sensationalist heading befits one..

Anyway .. where is your data to support such a statement? and does it factor in that they are cheaper.. so tend to get put in LOTS of OEM stuff.. so there may be more failures.. but is that just because there are more out there?
I don't know. .I believe WD to be better - but I don't really have any concrete data to support that feeling..

So how about some data.. so we can have an intelligent discussion on it.
Cheers
 
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Thank you, moved.

I avoided Seagate because for awhile their drives were slower. But when the 7200.10 came out they been on fire ever since. In that time I've had Seagate and WD die on me. I've been mostly Seagate since the time of the 7200.10+ I'm currently running two Samsung SSDs, and two Seagate 4TB drives for storage. (with an old WD 2TB green drive for backups.) Again, I've had all kinds of drives die on me. Others I pull like my 250GB 7200.10 which ran my OS until I got my first SSD. That 250GB was in 24/7 use from 2005 up until about 2012 I think. Still works. 7+ years running the OS with lots of read/writes. Wouldn't call Seagate a bad drive maker.
 
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