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Old 05-05-2007, 10:25 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by dav3 View Post
My seagate has been awesome, but then again so have my raptors. When you get these hard drives home, do you just like throw the box on the floor or something? All that bad luck with hard drives, maybe they aren't the problem.
No, I am very careful with them. Even though I have a redundant RAID setup I'm always aware that HDs are fragile, and will fail one day. This latest round of problems has made me super glad that I did plan for such a failure. (The failure in March would have definitely lost some serious amounts of data were it a dedicated, single drive)

Some people have suggested it may be the power supply, so I recently upgraded from a 550W unit to an 800W unit.

There is still the fact that Seagate sent me a reconditioned lemon. It started making noises that a HD shouldn't from the moment it was powered on.
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