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Offline Chalenge

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Seagate hard drives
« on: July 27, 2019, 06:41:16 AM »
Most everyone knows not to buy them. Here's a video that demonstrates why that is (and yes, every one of them I have opened in the past looks like this one example).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk
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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2019, 09:01:23 AM »
We used to call them Seacrates back in the 90s.   
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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2019, 09:33:55 AM »
Even with you showing visual facts......

Some will still buy Seagate HDs.....

Heh..


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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2019, 11:54:16 AM »
That raised a question: Are they all as poor as that "Rosewood" model used in cheap external drives and other OEM installations?
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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2019, 08:25:32 PM »
Garbage that they are, I've held on to one 1tb 7200rpm Seagate that came with some system or another back in 2012, I can't even remember where I got it. Use it daily, read/right various downloads/crap to it, just trying to get it to die.  Stubborn thing won't.  For spinner drives I've stuck to WD Blacks, I got a deal on 3 4TB ones (not sure if they even make the 4tb anymore), and they've been absolutely bullet proof thus far.  I have a 2tb one as well.  My latest builds were z390 Asrock Taichi boards with 3 m2 slots, when you fill up those m.2 with 3 1 tb drives, I find myself using my spinners a lot less for anything other than mass storage of movies/books/music now.
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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2019, 01:18:41 PM »
Sooo... thats what happened toHillary's emails

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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2019, 08:23:23 PM »
Quote from: Ramesis on August 03, 2019, 01:18:41 PM
Sooo... thats what happened toHillary's emails

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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2019, 11:39:08 PM »
funny thing i got a hitachi 1 gb, trb whatever, cant remeber but it's a lot of bytes in there.  when i bought and tried to install in about 12 maybe longer years ago, i dropped it and tried to catch it with my foot and kicked it instead bounced off the kitchen cabinet with lots of plastic parts missing. damn thing still works, I also have a wd 500 whatever bytes that i bought about 10 years ago and an ssd samsung evo 240 that i bought about 5 or 6 years ago.  that damn ssd i did everything i could to make it fail short of using a hammer.  they all still work.  maybe I am just lucky.


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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2019, 11:30:13 AM »
I personally never had a Seagate fail on one of my systems, I didn't use them preferentially, but I used a few of them for years with no noticeable issues.

In the same time period, the wife went through 3 or 4.  It never occurred to me they were Seagates until after the fact I remembered that they were.  She's on WD now, haven't had an issue since.

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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2019, 11:55:36 AM »
FWIW replacing broken hard disks used to be a common task for me about a decade ago. I bought them in bunches of five or so. Then all of the sudden the demand stopped. I still have a couple of 250 GB disks left, both PATA and SATA. This year I may have changed a disk about once in a month and in several cases connected it to upgrading from Win7 to Win10 regardless if the original disk were failing or not.
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Re: Seagate hard drives
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2019, 06:09:52 PM »
I've used Seagates almost exclusively (not my SSDs) since Quantum stopped being Quantum, only had one drive fail and that was due to external heat factors. I've been building my own PCs (and my kids) since the mid-80's.
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