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    Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250gb reliable?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by daneel3001, Jul 1, 2008.

  1. daneel3001

    daneel3001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi there

    I've got an Asus U6sg and I've had two HDD failures in less than 5 months now.
    Both drives that failed where Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250gb SATA.
    Anybody getting similar (extremely) poor reliability with those drives too ???

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    daneel3001, Jul 1, 2008
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I do not own those drives, but I have had similar problems with seagates 500gb 7200rpm desktop drives. I had to rma it 6 times before getting one which worked for over a month, and now 3 months after getting it, it is starting to die. Seagate has a lot of good drives, but their are some bad ones. It looks like you were shipped two bad drives, most likely from the same batch at seagate.
    I would send the drive back to the manufacturer and ask to get a hitachi drive instead, since most people do not have problems with hitachi.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 1, 2008
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  3. daneel3001

    daneel3001 Notebook Evangelist

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    6 RMAs before getting a drive that works is crazy.
    Obviously some people will have experiences starting like "I never had a problem with *blip*" but I can't believe how hard drive manufacturers can get away with such a low quality. Maybe the price war is to blame for all of this, I don't know.
    Thanks for letting me know that Hitachi drives seem pretty reliable.
    I will have a look at those as well as the WD ones (not much choice these days eh!)
     
    daneel3001, Jul 1, 2008
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  4. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Vote for Hitachi also. Seagate is a good brand, but if they`ll send you another from the same batch, it won`t make a differece.
     
    eleron911, Jul 1, 2008
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