Interesting Article On HDD Reliability With Brands.

Study: A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia : Practical Relevance

Take it with a grain of salt, but it does point out some interesting stuff about how the manufactures design them.

I have always had very good luck with the Hiitachi brand in the mechanical drive segment. This holds true here at least as well. Maybe Panny knows something we don't!

 

Well if there are two things you can conclude form this survey its too avoid seagate and that hitachi is the clear winner.

 

Yes that true. But, you have to consider this was from a small segment and from a company that retrieves data from defective HDD's. I would imagine that most of there customers are users that have them in non traditional laptop's.

What is interesting is that so many people I have talked to that have WD have had great luck with them. I have only had 1 of them and it crapped out in less than a year. The way they are designed, according to this article might help explain why!

 

This was posted 4 days ago.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...ard-drive-reliability-study-food-thought.html

 

Many of us here "do not get out much" i.e. don't go out of the Panasonic forum.

 

I am so sorry. I didn't realize we were in a race to see who posted what, when or whatever. I don't give a rats if something was posted last year. If it's news to me, educates me, I want to read it.

Go back to wherever the hell you came from, this board is not like the norm around here. Just in case you havn't noticed yet. Must be a Dell Boy coming out for some fresh air.

 

I've been warning people about these failures for quite some time now; see here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/407070-anyone-have-experience-wd-drives.html#post5185922

And here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/424769-best-hd-still-available-2.html#post5486902

The bottom line is: Hard drive manufacturers have moved towards the same kind of turnover-driven marketing as every other manufacturer that sells in the US.

I have an old 486 shoebox PC with a Seagate ST-225 that runs constantly as part of my security system; except for moves, it has literally been running non-stop since 1995. I keep it going just to see when it will finally die. I also have a circa 1984 Zenith Z-120 CP/M Desktop in my Dinosaurs collection with a 10 MB Winchester drive in it... that STILL runs.

Just imagine a manufacturer building to that level of durability in THIS day & age...

mnem
*Dinner-saurus*

 

Now now... Temper Temper.....

Tinderbox... Most of us stick to Panasonic only.... I rarely even go into the moderators forum let alone a <GASP> Accer, Lunovo or Dull forum.... We stick to what WE know works... (Yes I mis-spell them on purpose to avoid linkage!)

Back to the point... I too have started with the WD drives. I used to years ago but switched over to the faster Hitachi until they discontinued their 7200RPM drives. Then I tried Samsung... Then back to WD... I'm happy so far.

 

I bought a Tandon (anyone remember that company?) pc back in 1983 w/ a 10meg hard drive. I used it for ten years, day in and day out. Put it aside, but would turn it on from time to time for the hell of it. Finally recycled it last year, but gave it one last spin before parking the hd forever. I had to smack the outside of the pc to get the drive spinning, but up she came. 26 years--not bad.

 

I also had great luck with my WD 2.5" external drive, I dropped it the first month (about 1m height) and it still works perfectly, even the plastic didn't crack and nothing is rambling inside either.
Have it for a couple of months now (4, maybe more) and still works fine, i'll let ya'll know about it in a year Perhaps the falling caused the start of a small, but exponentially growing problem which will only be visible after some time.