have to say seagate hard drive have gone done the hill
total piece of crap in the hard drive world

new drive seagate barracuda 7200 11 500gb with out any warning just gone down with lots of bad sectors from the start


i would keep away and stick with western digital

WD is just as bad. P7K500-500 is a decent drive.

I'm with Zorb - Hitachi seem to have got their problems sorted out..

Then suddenly ....

Seagate 3.5" problems :

7200.7 : PCB circuitry 40% dirty/weak head(s) = 60%
7200.8 : head(s) = 30% SA = 70%
7200.9 : SA = 30% weak/damaged head(s) = 70%
7200.10: rotor seizure = 40%, PCB & SA = 60%
7200.11: SA = 60% unknown(s) = 40%

WD 3.5" problems :
Old architecture Caviar/WDC70P : SA = 30% head(s) & hermetic block contamination = 70%
New architecture Caviar Marvell : SA = 50% head(s) = 50%

Hitachi 3.5" problems :
Old IBM/Traditional : Unstable PCB = 20% head(s) = 80%
New Hitachi GST (up to HTS7225) : SA = 40% head(s) = 60%

These figures are based on drives' own generated problem. Nothing to do with user errors (dropped, wrong power connection, etc) & disaster (flood/lightning/earthquakes)

This is my own statistic during last year (2008), result may vary.

CMIIW

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I'm seeing media problems with 7200.11s a lot more than with 7200.10s.

7200.11 will break all records of failure ,

Nothing can break Fujitsu MPG record.

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yes forgot that .

i am always using the Hitachi,it seems very good till now