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Sansa · 08-14-2007, 06:30 PM

In the last year or so I've had 6 hard drives crash. Right now an external drive that's mostly off is starting to do it's clicky thing, which means it's going to be dying.

I am religious about doing daily backups so I haven't lost any data yet but I am getting very fed up with the low quality of the drives. All of these drives are over a year old so I couldn't RMA any. The most fucked up part is most of them seem to die at about 1.5 years of age and they are different drives (WD, Samsung) and reside in different hardware (my pc, NAS, external USB enclosures). There's simply no pattern and only one conclusion - hard drives have gone down in quality big time.

I am weary of buying any of the new drives, especially huge ones like 750gb to 1Tb. I just can't imagine losing so much data at once.

Dammit, as a consumer, I am pissed.

This is all.

08-14-2007, 06:30 PM
Sansa Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 293	Hard drives crashing left and right. In the last year or so I've had 6 hard drives crash. Right now an external drive that's mostly off is starting to do it's clicky thing, which means it's going to be dying. I am religious about doing daily backups so I haven't lost any data yet but I am getting very fed up with the low quality of the drives. All of these drives are over a year old so I couldn't RMA any. The most fucked up part is most of them seem to die at about 1.5 years of age and they are different drives (WD, Samsung) and reside in different hardware (my pc, NAS, external USB enclosures). There's simply no pattern and only one conclusion - hard drives have gone down in quality big time. I am weary of buying any of the new drives, especially huge ones like 750gb to 1Tb. I just can't imagine losing so much data at once. Dammit, as a consumer, I am pissed. This is all.