What are the top 10 'dodgy' hard drives at the moment

[Disklabs]

I am trying to put together a top ten list of drives that fail a lot at the moment.

Can you give me some ideas on which ones you are seeing most failures on.

Thanks,

Simon

[helpdisc]

hehe, I think You know that...
Bad drives is one that does not have backup... rest is all lotery
Nikola

[Disklabs]

I am looking for models such as the Seagate 7200.11 and so forth...

[CK]

Pick any 10 Seagates and you'll have your list!

We're seeing a significant amount of failures in Toshiba GSX Family.

[BlackST]

I would say WD5000. But the problem 99% is USER FAULT, except for the 7200.11 that bricked itself.
Excluding known FW problems, eliminate the cause and the effect will go away (read : change the user and every HDD will work fine).

[Disklabs]

Pick any 10 Seagates and you'll have your list!

We're seeing a significant amount of failures in Toshiba GSX Family.

I love the comment about the Seagates!

What are the specific problems with the Toshiba GSX drives?

Regards,

[CK]

I've had a number of them in this month with head failure.

You may also have seen my recent post about a yet-to-be-determined failure where the drives "chirp" and appear ready but stay BSY when sector access is attempted. Heads have been ruled out as has the motor, so all signs point to an adaptives issue, but still working on this problem.

[HDD Spaz]

Fujitsu MPG

Only kidding. Is this list for only new hard drives or can a few golden oldies be added.

I am seeing loads of HTS54's at the moment. Its likely because its the most popular notebook drive but still seeing loads with head failure.

[BlackST]

But notebooks are misused. No one made an independent "crash test" ? I still don't get why I have some of the crappiest drives in the world still working every day (but handled like eggs...)

[guru]

http://www.IPDRA.org (c) Disklabds what failures are your engineers finding? Being at the pinnacle of the recovery world you guys should know


I guess you want to update your website with all the hot recovery drives to get your stats up

[drc]

http://www.IPDRA.org (c) Disklabds what failures are your engineers finding?

Yes, you should start your thread by contributing your own list of dodgy hard drives. Then everyone else can add to it and discuss. Otherwise it just sounds like you're asking for free info.

[Disklabs]

We are gettin in a few of the Seagates in, however, as we are a Western Digital authorised partner, we get loads of them.

Over and above that, we get quite a few of the LaCie Bigger Disk and Extreme disks in.

Established since 1997. We have some idea!

Regards,

[guru]

lol that makes me giggle .. respect due

your top 10

1: Loads Of Seagates
2: Lots Of WD's
3: Lots Of Lacie's

[guru]

sorry but seriously sorry to pull your leg .

what models are you getting in and what % are Sea/WD/HGST/FUJ etc etc etc

[HDD Spaz]

We get approx....

20% Seagates (all models)

20% Hitachi Travelstar

20% 2.5"/3.5" Western Digital

15 % 2.5"/3.5" Samsung

5 % Hitachi Deskstar

10 % Toshiba

5 % Fujitsu

5 % other


I would like to add we recover hyberfil.sys from 95% of them

[BlackST]

Is that file always requested?

[N.C.]

Is that file always requested?

No this means something else...
... some windoze shits ....

Janos

[prodata]

I think it is hard to calculate which one is the best....

Every Company have their own Market range... Such here. My country... Seagate was the most used Harddrive. about 50% more market was mastered by Seagate Brand... SO here The most Drive we received to recovery was Seagate Brand.. Is this Mean SEAGATE is a BAD DRIVE.............

[HDD Spaz]

Is this Mean SEAGATE is a BAD DRIVE.............

yes.

[sempre]

Bad drive = hdd not access for the user final and excellent for DR business