Seagate rosewood head swap success rate.

[Gordon Bulger]

I seem to have a low success rate with swapping rosewood series drives. Is there something that I am missing. Has anyone else experienced this? Tight spacing when inserting head combs is not an issue after receiving Apex tool labs latest rosewood set.

[melvin]

It's not the head swap process problem. It's the shit they are made of. Both heads and platters... and the firmware... and construction itself

[jono-ats]

These are particularly sensitive to media damage and contamination. If your platters aren't spotless, trouble ensues.

[digisupport]

When Rosewoods started to show up here, a high percentage had severe media damage. Was not excited at that time. Now I do several every week, success rate is on level with other model / brands. Kind of like them now

[pepe]

yeah RW drives are lovely
but it may need some time to fall in love with them...

pepe

[data-medics]

Yeah, it's hit or miss. The platter quality is just trash. I have a case I just handled that worked after a head swap, but the drive was nearly 100% full. At around 50% recovered it started to get read errors and then the heads died. Open it up, and what do I find??? Rings in the platters now and I can literally see straight through the glass platters.

The coating on the platters is just insanely thin and degrades fast with any minor damage.

[Lardman]

Open it up, and what do I find??? Rings in the platters now and I can literally see straight through the glass platters.

I thought they were manufactured like that