Where Do Hard Drive Heads Come From?
Where Do Hard Drive Heads Come From?
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We were recently fortunate enough to visit Seagate’s operation in Ireland. This wasn’t a pleasure trip. Rather, the purpose was to tour of one of the manufacturer’s most important manufacturing sites: Springtown, home to the plant where over 30% of the world’s hard disk read/write heads come from.
If you’ve ever wondered just what’s under the hood of your hard disk, come with us as we take a behind-the-scenes tour of exactly how the process works.
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Thereby I must conclude that at least 37,5% of the worlds harddrives have seagate read heads ? if that's true, how come hitachi and western digital drives don't fail like their seagate brothers, if it's the same read heads?
Anyway, ye I have bad experiences with them, but not limited to one drive. What is the worst part of seagate imo isn't the fact that they're failing more than wds - it's that they don't have anything resembling support. You can contact htem, but they'll just say 'that's normal behavour' until the drive fails completely. Then it's your fault it failed.
Delorean Made in ? questionable build quality?
20% made in USA = 80% left
Umm so far I had so many HDs from all manufacturers, 2 hitachi, 3 maxtor, 3 seagate, 5 WD, 2 Fujitsu
out of all only 1 WD totally died because my friend tripped on the wires and let the bird fly!! and Fujitsu had horrible unrecoverable sectors but then that was after 5 years of abuse
Out of my clients: #1 cause of HD failure is User like moving laptop around while hibernating/shutting down the system, dropping the laptop while working and using unprotected or limited protected power source!
When you get a drive from wd it'll be a repaired drive yes. But that's within their right. And so far I've never seen a repaired drive fail.
Anyway, do you have a transcript of the warrenty issue you describe? I would like to see it before I believe it.
I've had 4 500gb wd drives break, and a raptor drive break - but in the same timespan (4 years) I've seen at least 10 seagate drives break, two of which happened within the last 6 months), and some 25 maxtor drives. Granted most of our work computers have maxtor or hitachi drives .... but still - only 2 hitachi drives failed in the same time 25 maxtor and 10 seagate did...
You really have a bad opinion about Seagate, don't you ?
Where do you get those numbers? Link plz. At work I'm only aware of two server models running 'custom hp branded' seagate drives. Everything else is hitachi. And I don't believe we've explicitly asked for hitachi (I just operate the stuff, I don't order it). Perhaps you're right though, and it just so happends that the eonstor and hp equipment we have doesn't have seagate drives. I wouldn't know, since I only frequent my own serverrooms.
But no. I don't like seagate. I could live with em in the past, but now that they've taken over maxtor, I don't trust them at all. After all maxtor is the single worst harddrive maker to still operate (not counting quantum since they dont exist anymore).
- http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/10/02/western-digital-fujitsu-seagate-hitachi/
- http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/12/13/seagate-biggest-hard-drive-vendor-in-cosmos
BTW, should HDD be mounted horizontally or vertically?
What is this you want to see a paper trail?
Why would any one want to make up such a story?
As for WD right to replace a drive with a repaired one, try reading my post again. I did not have a problem with that. My problem is it failed again and they would not make good on it. I all so did not like there attitude when I called them about it.
If you’re so in love with WD then my advice to you and only you is to keep on buying from them. That is you right and I respect that I don’t how ever respect your suggestion that I made such a think up! Why would some one want to do such a thing? In your post you did not even take time to invent some made up motive for me to do so! So keep on making love to WD. People like you will never believe anything until they catch there disease. So for you keep on buy WD drives and I think you will learn the hard way. For every one else this is my experience for your benefit it up to you to decide what you want to do. Paper trail, go check out the men’s room for your paper trail!
I would like to know if any one else has had a bad experience with WD as in all fairness this could have been an isolated incident but even so I’m not happy with them.