I am so screwed....

[CharlesA]

I am looking on Newegg and see a SG 1.5tb drive for 79 bucks but these huge drives are a pain. When my WD started to go, I ran a 3rd party disc check and after 8hrs, it barely covered 25%. I guess the mfg dont expect you to ever run diagnostics on their drives....

I've used the manufactures diag utilites and they mostly just do a short test to see if the drive passes. If it does, you can do a long test.

Sh*t on WD & SG... I recomend Hitachi - silent & dependable.

I've had success with Maxtor, WD, SG and Hitachi. All work for me.

I've also had 2 Seagate external drives DoA.

[cariboo]

Near the end just before Maxtor was bought out, I had several of them die within a month of purchase, I also stay away from Fujitsu, and I haven't had the best of luck with Hitachi, after all they still name their drives Deathstar . I've had the best of luck with WD and Seagate.

I had a couple of WD 400Gb drives that I thought I had problems with, but it turned out to be a problem with fakeraid corrupting data. The drives are still in use 2 years later, with zero problems.

[darco]

Does that old rule apply still about when installing a 2nd drive it should be at least the same mfg as the 1st drive? I have a WD Sata 3.0 and thinking of buying anything but a WD...
thxs

[linux18]

The way to get data off a clicking hard disk its as old as hard disks themselves:

As soon as the hard drive starts clicking, immediatly shut it down, stick it into a plastic bag, and store it in the freezer overnight. the next day pack it in instant icepacks, connect it to the computer, and clone the drive.

as for reliability, I have a 75MB seagate drive from 1991 still working on my dos laptop (hoping to find a linux for it eventually)

[KdotJ]

as for reliability, I have a 75MB seagate drive from 1991 still working on my dos laptop (hoping to find a linux for it eventually)

75mb..nice lol.
I have a 250gb Seagate drive which I've had from 2005 and it works absolutely no problems still

[murderslastcrow]

I seem to sell my computers and buy a new one before any of this kind of stuff happens. But this last computer I bought is so good that I decided I'll keep it for the next 20 years, since it will last me at least that long.

I hope you find a brand that serves you well this time. Kind of ironic that the people doing backups like they should are getting screwed while I'm not. =_= ; I'm going to regret this some day. I did back ups monthly for a while, but nothing ever happened, so I stopped. XD

Eh, I guess I don't have anything that wouldn't take more than a day to reproduce on this thing. Even code, it's all on Gmail.

Perhaps I shouldn't trust Gmail so much, either. O_O