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I still love Seagate, but I think my 7200.8 is dying out on me.. (250gb)..
Has anyone's 7200.8 failed yet?
Has anyone's 7200.8 failed yet?
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 is more reliable than 11% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 's predecessor ( Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ) is more reliable than 85% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 is more reliable than 50% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 is more reliable than 20% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor MaXLine III is more reliable than 14% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I've been warning about the 7200.8 nit i gave up since there are 10 to 1 peopel that love it versus the people that actually understand the cold hard truth. SEagate 7200.8 lacked horribly in reliability versus awesome the 7200.7s
from storagereview reliability survey
7200.7 gets a more reliable that 11% of the drives out there.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 is more reliable than 11% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
7200.7 gets a 85% perciltile of reliability(more reliabile that 85% of drives out there)According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 's predecessor ( Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ) is more reliable than 85% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
even a ibm/Hitachi deskstar(AKA deathstar by many) is much more reliable and peiople complain about those because of some bad deskstars years and years ago.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 is more reliable than 50% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
Hell, maxtor is more reliable than the 7200.8s that everyone recommends even though maxtor is "supposedly" a unreliable company
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 is more reliable than 20% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
and the maxtor maxline...
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor MaXLine III is more reliable than 14% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
Originally posted by: CraigRT
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I've been warning about the 7200.8 nit i gave up since there are 10 to 1 peopel that love it versus the people that actually understand the cold hard truth. SEagate 7200.8 lacked horribly in reliability versus awesome the 7200.7s
from storagereview reliability survey
7200.7 gets a more reliable that 11% of the drives out there.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 is more reliable than 11% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
7200.7 gets a 85% perciltile of reliability(more reliabile that 85% of drives out there)According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 's predecessor ( Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ) is more reliable than 85% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
even a ibm/Hitachi deskstar(AKA deathstar by many) is much more reliable and peiople complain about those because of some bad deskstars years and years ago.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 is more reliable than 50% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
Hell, maxtor is more reliable than the 7200.8s that everyone recommends even though maxtor is "supposedly" a unreliable company
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 is more reliable than 20% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
and the maxtor maxline...
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Maxtor MaXLine III is more reliable than 14% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
Maxtor in my experience is so bad I would go as far as to say they just "don't work"
they ALL fail... they are SO bad it's absolutely sickening. I have many 7200.8's in my company now which replaced dead Maxtor junk and they are all working fine. I've yet to have a single Seagate hard drive fail since I've been replacing the Maxtors with them.
Originally posted by: Rafael
I lost 3 Maxtor, gave up on Maxtor.
I have 1 WD SE ATA100 8 Mb works like a charm. Very good HD, but I think it's a little bit louder.
And the last one I bought it was a 300 Gb Seagate 7200.8 SATA.
Got some cooling for HD?
Originally posted by: duragezic
Had the partition disappear on my 250gb Seagate 7200.8 several months back. I was able to recover everything with some recovery software. I've run drive checks on it since, and extended tests or file system tests bring back errors that don't seem to get fixed even with a format and re-partition. I've been meaning to send it back to Seagate for months now but their POS website form didn't work with FF, IE, or Opera. However its been flawless since that day, so I don't know if I should RMA it or not, plus I'd only do it if I could get an Advance RMA so I'd have a drive to copy all my crap over to.
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I've been warning about the 7200.8 nit i gave up since there are 10 to 1 peopel that love it versus the people that actually understand the cold hard truth. SEagate 7200.8 lacked horribly in reliability versus awesome the 7200.7s
Originally posted by: Ike0069
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I've been warning about the 7200.8 nit i gave up since there are 10 to 1 peopel that love it versus the people that actually understand the cold hard truth. SEagate 7200.8 lacked horribly in reliability versus awesome the 7200.7s
I too have noticed a large amout of complaints abotu the 7200.8 line. I don't personally own one, and I've read enough to be very thankful for that. The 7200.7's were excellent, and I'm sure the .9's will also be great. They just had an issue somewhere in the .8 design that has most likely been eliminated in the .9's (at least I hope).
For now, I'm just sticking with good 'ole reliable WD.