I've used up all my karma when it come sot dying hard drives. Good thign I upgrade every 3 years and avoid these issues.

i was gonna say about how my seagate drives have been serving me really well, but now my 500GB drive is occasionally making this really luod clacking noise. although it still seems to work just fine.

i've had both seagates and WD's crash and burn on me before. as far as failure rates are concerend i'd say both companies are about equal from my experience.

*waiting for decently sized SSDs for a reasonable price.

In the meantime while SSD's come out with a decent size drive and reasonable price, i just bought a wd velociraptor 150 gb, im very pleased with this drive

I should have got the WD, the Seagate just bricked on me, now all my midget pr0n is gone

i have two WD's now. a Green 1TB drive and a Black 320GB 7200RPM laptop drive, both residing in my desktop.

since this thread started i've had 4 seagate 500GB drives turn to bricks on me and a 5th lost its partition table randomly and needed to be formatted again before i could use it. none of the programs i had that claim to restore from accidental formats could restore the partition table for me.

7 WD's. 2 raptors and 5 Greenpowers. Going on strong!

maybe its the luck of the draw but I have found WD's to be much more reliable than any seagate.

WD Raptor's are great at lasting a very long time, even with the increased heat. I wont be going back to 7200rpm again for an OS drive.

go WD!

I'll snag my self a new black or green WD later in the month.

At least everything was already backed up to my Atom in anticipation of formating the drive to get rid of the Win7 beta that I installed on that drive...

There are a bunch of WD rappy's on kijiji now up for grabs.

I kept trying not to post here, but I must share.

I have had 7 WD HDD's in the last 10 years. Every one of them failed in the first 2 years of usage. In May 09, my employer purchased 14 500GB-1TB WD drives, 3 were Dead on Arrival and 2 barely made it past the OS install before failing. Can't be just me.

I have since switched entirely to Seagate, although their tech is much like WD's, but Seagate drives have only failed once on me in the workplace.

Muahahahahahahahahahaha

http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seag ... 28807.html

Me thinks I can fix it. I'm a tad bit familiar with using hyperterminal to config items via a serial interface.

I have made contact. Now where's my #6 TORX...

It appears to be alive, it appears to be alive!

I won't know for sure until I get home, I wasn't to keen about making it an active drive on my Workstation.

Why not RMA?

Seagate and WD have excellent RMA programs. You might even get an upgrade if lucky.

Their RMA service seems to have gone downhill since the bricking issue popped up.