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    From Davey@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 21 00:57:37 2016
    I see several complaints about Seagate Hard Drives. In September 2013,
    I bought a Seagate 3TB drive. It was used rarely, maybe once every two
    months, for backing up videos and other files. It came with a
    two-year warranty.

    When I used it in early December last year, a couple of months after
    the warranty expired, it was noisy, rather like a bearing running dry,
    but it worked. It worked again in late December, and quietly. The other
    day, I knocked it, gently, but not enough to give me cause for alarm,
    or so I thought. Now, the PC sees it, but there's nobody home, it
    chunters quietly for a while, then it reports a blank non-communicating
    drive, which says to me that the heads aren't reading the disk. The
    warranty label says that it should withstand 350 Gs, which does seem a
    lot, and there was no way it suffered that, and it was not connected to anything, including power.

    Luckily everything was double backed up.

    Oh well, I'll replace it with a Samsung. No more Seagates for me.

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    Davey.

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  • From gargoyle60@21:1/5 to Davey on Thu Jan 21 09:46:27 2016
    On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:57:37 +0000, Davey <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Seagate Hard Drives

    Still using my Seagate hard drives after nearly 17 years. By contrast I've had Samsung equipment
    fail after infrequent use. I guess it's all down to luck.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 21 09:53:41 2016
    On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:46:27 +0000
    gargoyle60 <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:57:37 +0000, Davey <[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    Seagate Hard Drives

    Still using my Seagate hard drives after nearly 17 years. By contrast
    I've had Samsung equipment fail after infrequent use. I guess it's
    all down to luck.

    Very true. In my case, Seagate have had the bad luck to lose any future
    sales to me.
    Maybe it's a lesson that these things need using, like a car.

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    Davey.

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  • From Henry Law@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 21 10:18:48 2016
    On 21/01/16 09:46, gargoyle60 wrote:
    Still using my Seagate hard drives after nearly 17 years. By contrast I've had Samsung equipment
    fail after infrequent use.

    There's no certainty in life! In my home-brew backup server, developed
    over quite a number of years now, there are two copies of everything on
    two drives which I deliberately chose to be from different manufacturers.

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    Henry Law Manchester, England

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Henry Law on Thu Jan 21 10:39:17 2016
    On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:18:48 +0000
    Henry Law <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 21/01/16 09:46, gargoyle60 wrote:
    Still using my Seagate hard drives after nearly 17 years. By
    contrast I've had Samsung equipment fail after infrequent use.

    There's no certainty in life! In my home-brew backup server,
    developed over quite a number of years now, there are two copies of everything on two drives which I deliberately chose to be from
    different manufacturers.


    Yup, that's pretty much what I have.

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    Davey.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Davey on Tue Jan 26 10:27:02 2016
    On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:57:37 +0000
    Davey <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I see several complaints about Seagate Hard Drives. In September 2013,
    I bought a Seagate 3TB drive. It was used rarely, maybe once every two months, for backing up videos and other files. It came with a
    two-year warranty.

    When I used it in early December last year, a couple of months after
    the warranty expired, it was noisy, rather like a bearing running dry,
    but it worked. It worked again in late December, and quietly. The
    other day, I knocked it, gently, but not enough to give me cause for
    alarm, or so I thought. Now, the PC sees it, but there's nobody home,
    it chunters quietly for a while, then it reports a blank
    non-communicating drive, which says to me that the heads aren't
    reading the disk. The warranty label says that it should withstand
    350 Gs, which does seem a lot, and there was no way it suffered that,
    and it was not connected to anything, including power.

    Luckily everything was double backed up.

    Oh well, I'll replace it with a Samsung. No more Seagates for me.


    I bought a Samsung, and it's a Seagate inside! Oh well.

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    Davey.

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  • From Daniel James@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 22 15:13:38 2016
    In article <[email protected]>, Gargoyle60
    wrote:
    Still using my Seagate hard drives after nearly 17 years.

    Seagate used to be good ... it's the drives you haven't had for 17
    years that are likely to fail ...

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    Cheers,
    Daniel.

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