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More than likely, you're destroying the drives yourself. Do you really think this is just all normal? I would guess that 95% of the people who experience repea

More than likely, you're destroying the drives yourself. Do you really think this is just all normal? I would guess that 95% of the people who experience repeated failed drive issues such as yours, are experiencing them because of power issues on your lines (voltage and AC fluctuations), or P/S problems. The other 5% are getting drives from the same bad lot #. I strongly suggest that you invest in either a voltage regulator or a power conditioning UPS.

Lazare 15y ago
I know, I know! That's the obvious explanation, right? And yet... 1) All three workstations with the Seagate drives have seen constant failure of Seagate drives. They have different brands of motherboard and power supplies, and checking system and HDD temperature shows nothing unusual (ignoring, for the moment, if temperature even matters). 2) All the computers in the office without the Seagate drives - but on the same power circuit - have seen no hard drive failures. At all. And some of the affected workstations had additional non-Seagate drives, including some ancient old IDE drives. None of the "extra" drives failed either. 3) Not long after the first round of failures, we noticed some power quality issues in the office. I purchased a fairly high-end Liebert UPS which solved the power quality issues, but didn't seem to change the Seagate issues. 4) As WD drives were purchased and swapped into the three affected workstations, the failures seemed to stop. Some of the WD drives have now been in service for significantly longer than some of the failed Seagate drives. Of course, none of that proves anything, but the obvious explanations don't seem applicable. My guess is that my first half dozen drives were from a bad lot #, and the remaining drives were some mix of: * Also from a bad lot # * Damaged in shipping * Were improperly refurbished * Failed due to sheer random coincidence I'm pretty sure I didn't break the drive which was dead on arrival from Seagate, if nothing else. :-) If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them though. We were using RAID 1, and had backups to boot, so we didn't lose any data, but it was still quite a pain. If there's something I can do to stop it happening again, I'd love to hear it.

Lazare 15y ago

I know, I know! That's the obvious explanation, right? And yet... 1) All three workstations with the Seagate drives have seen constant failure of Seagate drives. They have different brands of motherboard and power supplies, and checking system and HDD temperature shows nothing unusual (ignoring, for the moment, if temperature even matters). 2) All the computers in the office without the Seagate drives - but on the same power circuit - have seen no hard drive failures. At all. And some of the affected workstations had additional non-Seagate drives, including some ancient old IDE drives. None of the "extra" drives failed either. 3) Not long after the first round of failures, we noticed some power quality issues in the office. I purchased a fairly high-end Liebert UPS which solved the power quality issues, but didn't seem to change the Seagate issues. 4) As WD drives were purchased and swapped into the three affected workstations, the failures seemed to stop. Some of the WD drives have now been in service for significantly longer than some of the failed Seagate drives. Of course, none of that proves anything, but the obvious explanations don't seem applicable. My guess is that my first half dozen drives were from a bad lot #, and the remaining drives were some mix of: * Also from a bad lot # * Damaged in shipping * Were improperly refurbished * Failed due to sheer random coincidence I'm pretty sure I didn't break the drive which was dead on arrival from Seagate, if nothing else. :-) If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them though. We were using RAID 1, and had backups to boot, so we didn't lose any data, but it was still quite a pain. If there's something I can do to stop it happening again, I'd love to hear it.