yeah, hdd's tend to give us a hard time...

The 4 Seagate HDs I'm using in my RAID 1+0 system were manufactured in 3 different factories. This is deliberate... I'd make it 4 factories if they had them. :)

I just rebooted and got a SMART error. One of my Maxtor drives is bad ;( It's less than 2 years old. Hopefully it's still under warranty. Fuck Maxtor. Quality sucks.

Ouch, I had the same with my IBM deskstar a few years ago...2 of them crashed...I was on time tho with saving the data

maxtor is as good as all other 3 harddrive makers

Maxtors are shit. They fail the most out of all hardrives I've used.

buy RE or SE drives(depending on the brand). You'll pay more but they're higher quality

this is why Im a western digital man

I prefer WD, although Seagate is pretty good too.

If your machine is still under warranty, you should be able to get the drive replaced and get your stuff of the other drive. What you need for the shop to do is put in your new drive with Windows, and put your old drive in as a second drive. Then once it's in, they should be able to copy your data over.

I always make sure I have backups of all of my content on CD/DVD. Since my hard drive has a duplicate copy of my webserver, that's pretty safe (although I routinely back up my websites to DVDs as well.

Ok it's Sunday night here, crash happened Friday afternoon. Yesterday I bought a new HD, the exact same one that crashed, I spoke with several pc guys over the phone and all of them told me it doesn't make a difference what drive you are using, around 4% of all new hard disks just crash within the first 3 months. 16 hours of labour went into this.
In the store they told me that it could be possible to have the data transferred from the bad HD to the new one but since I was able to replace everything by myself I just went for that. I'm going to burn every single prog on cd from now on.

Seagate has stepped ahead:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148140

But if you can spend more then check this out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136012

That Seagate will easily outperform the Raptor in many tasks because of the increased bandwidth. I'd go with the Seagate, you can get two of them and put them in a Raid-0 array and it'll completely smoke the Raptor drive in almost every category then, and you?ll still be saving some cash. If you only want one Seagate (which will still perform marvelously), use the promo code fredsbarracuda for an extra 5 bucks off.

Mine costs 100 ? /120$ technology always improves and prices always drop on new parts. I also found out that maxtor was bought by seagate so in time maxtor will dissapear.

Thanks for the info, but I'm not using Maxtor here.

Amen... THREE have died on me!