Reliability of seagate drives?

At that time, Seagate's quality control was far better than it is now.

Several years ago, I had a few Western Digital Winchester 40MB (not GB) 3.5" half-height IDE drives that still worked properly, back when stepper motors were used instead of voice actuator coils. More fun from a historical perspective than anything else, and prior to the existence of the Caviar line.

 

Newer Seagates are as reliable as old.
There was one line of 1TB drives that really hurt them though as they were junk.


By the way,
One of the earlier posts said one reviewers drives all had click of death...

Portable external drives that do not get enough juice will click like the click of death. Many 1.1 USB ports, and even some 2.0 ports do not supply enough amperage. Worse, the Seagate enclosure uses a bit more than other enclosures as well.


Just one of the many reason to not trust reviews by non-tech savvy people, of which there are many.

 

I think it affected the 1.5 TB drives when they first came out. My friend bought 10, 6 DOA, 2 died in 2 weeks, 2 are still working fine to this day.

 

its not a wd green those are 5400 rpm and the drive is 7200 rpm it uses Hitachi drives. talkin to the guy that said the g tech drives were wd green

 

I bought four 2TB WD Green drives and one died right away. It was replaced promptly, but it happens. I don't know that there is a whole lot of difference in quality between manufacturers. WD just seems to have the best performing with low power consumption compared to competition.

 

Well technically it was still working so it was defective not DOA.

And I'd rather have 1/4 DOA than 6/10 DOA

 

Well, large enough sample size and maybe you'd end up with 9/100 Seagate and 10/100 WD. 1/4 is 25% but sample size is WAAAY too small to make any judgement.