Hard Drive Failure Log - Which of your HDDs have died?

[g0lden0rchard]

We keep talking about drive reliability but there is no log of which drives have failed. I thought it would be a good idea to track everyone's HDD failures.

I will start with my recent failure

Hitachi Deskstar - HDS722525VLSA80
250 GB SATA
Build June 2005

3 year warranty but it died two months after warranty expiry.
Drive started making clicking noises

[Oversized Rooster]

I had a Seagate 7200.7 die on me. Surprisingly I did own a Hitachi Deathstar which has lived for 10 years, and then I sold it still alive. :)

I had a Western Digital 250GB PATA drive of some sort like 5 years ago and while it didn't die I got some serious data loss one day. RMAed that.

Samsung...I'm not touching that stuff to begin with.

[kitty]

Shouldn't this be a multiple choice poll? I've had different brands of HDD die on me.

My recent HDD purchases in the last 5 years are all still alive. But I had quite a few failures in the 40GB era, before that.

[pitz]

Let's see, I've lost (from my personal machines..):

1 IBM Deskstar 60GXP
3 Seagate Barracuda ST15150N
2 Seagate Cheetah ST318403LW
1 Western Digital Enterprise 2170

The Enterprise 2170 failed in a most nasty way, while all the others basically suffered electronics failure:

http://pitzel.dyndns.org/wdphotos/images/WDE2170%20Failure%20013.jpg

(yes, all that 'dirt' was actually aluminium shavings that had accumulated inside the drive casing)

(the groove on that inner track was pretty close to a half-millimetre thick. If I had left the drive spinning, eventually it would have worn right through the platter.)

[TakumiDC5]

I've had a Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital fail on me.

[Narci]

you can't just stick a couple drives in the polls...

what if they died....

if the drives were raided?

if it's on 24/7?

if it is not on 24/7?

if you only bought one brand drive, failed, and bought the same brand?

if you never had a drive fail on you?

if it failed only because you had it for 10 years as opposed to 1?

[Narci]

you can't just stick a couple drives in the polls...
what if they died....
if the drives were raided?
if it's on 24/7?
if it is not on 24/7?
if you only bought one brand drive, failed, and bought the same brand?
if you never had a drive fail on you?
if it failed only because you had it for 10 years as opposed to 1?

Personally, I have never had a drive fail on me. I never had one long enough to see it fail. Drives are so cheap these days.

And if it did, there's something called back up.

[pitz]

Yeah its not scientific.

I RAID-1 all of my drives now. Its just easier that way..

[toalan]

The only harddrive that has failed on me that I can remember was the one from my stock xbox.

[CCCC3333]

The OP apparently forgot about Fujitsu.

[rilhouse]

No Maxtor?

[ShadowVlican]

no desktop drives have failed me yet (i've used ibm, samsung, maxtor, seagate, and western digital)

but two toshiba laptop hard drives have died on me

[g0lden0rchard]

Yeah sorry guys - I screwed up
I can't change the poll at this time can I?

Can one of the admins improve the poll?

[dighn]

I've had only one drive die on me. It was one of the infamous IBM Deathstars, 30 GB. What a POS. I've had 9 other drives (mixed brands) and none of them died (so far) within their useful life times.

[Silver Bullet]

no desktop drives have failed me yet (i've used ibm, samsung, maxtor, seagate, and western digital)

but two toshiba laptop hard drives have died on me

pretty much same story for me.

[coolspot]

no desktop drives have failed me yet (i've used ibm, samsung, maxtor, seagate, and western digital)

but two toshiba laptop hard drives have died on me

Lucky you. I've had 2 Maxtors fail on me and 2 Toshiba laptop drives. Probably had a few other ones that failed but I can't recall at the moment.

[Frankie3s]

No Maxtor?

ding, ding, ding for me with Maxtor. But their Customer support was excellent.

[Zero1]

I have had a Maxtor Drive die on me and 1 WD that was defective out of package. It was the WD5000AAKS model. I am going to RMA it soon.

[13sundin]

none have died yet, just made noices

[Candiana]

I have had a Maxtor Drive die on me and 1 WD that was defective out of package. It was the WD5000AAKS model. I am going to RMA it soon.

same here. maxtor rma was smooth & fast. wd was exchanged at CC richmond hill - 10 min max total wasted on that pos. last month, a seagate 500gb started dying... will rma it soon.

[Topher]

Lost 2 drives, both WD, one was a replacement for the other. Never bought another WD after that.

[Riflem@n]

The IBM Deskstar, that was about it. Remember to keep your HDs cool.

[matkun]

A 320GB 7200.10 Seagate warned my via SMART before it failed fully. Sent it in for RMA, and got back a 400GB one, happy with the process and result.