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I bought quite a few Seagate drives back when they were the first to move up to a five-year warranty; I believe it was around the 7200.7 series. Those were grea

by rufo 18y ago

I bought quite a few Seagate drives back when they were the first to move up to a five-year warranty; I believe it was around the 7200.7 series. Those were great drives - fast and reliable (knock on wood, I don't think a one has died on me yet). Shame to hear about the .11s. It seems odd how cyclical the hard drive industry is... company gets popular, has a massive defect, consumers run to alternatives, until they have a massive defect and everyone flocks back.

likpok 18y ago
My dad had a comment about this. When buying hard drives for work (a university), they would switch to whichever one didn't have a large failure. They exhausted the space of the industry reasonably quickly. Just goes to show that for the (reputable) companies, major failures are pretty much random (although it might be nice to see some statistics?) and thus it's a wash.