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Deanjo wrote:Krogoth wrote:IMO, I think the drop of reliability started with the jump to perpendicular recording.
I don't know about that, I seem to recall a lot more dead drives leading up to perpendicular recording (and I don't miss figuring out the ideal interleave, manually marking out bad sectors, carrying out real low-level formatting).
ish718 wrote:I have a 160GB WD Blue that started to show signs of failure( overheating) after like 7 years of everyday usage. It was used as an OS/Apps drive btw.
Got it for $89.99 at BestBuy, go figure.
just brew it! wrote:Interleave, manual bad sector mapping, and low-level formatting went away long before perpendicular recording hit the scene.
Deanjo wrote:I realize that, just giving an idea of how long I was thinking back to.
Captain Ned wrote:I've only ever bought bare drives from Newegg and have never had issue with the packing. Perhaps it's a per-warehouse issue?
Bensam123 wrote:Captain Ned wrote:I've only ever bought bare drives from Newegg and have never had issue with the packing. Perhaps it's a per-warehouse issue?
It could be, I haven't had issues with packing either, but I definitely have had drives fail on me.
maxxcool wrote:No power filtering.. But if it can take out a drive you'd think it would drop a board, ram, CPU, north bridge etc..
Captain Ned wrote:My last failure was a DeathStar.
Bensam123 wrote:Newegg reviews
Deanjo wrote:Krogoth wrote:IMO, I think the drop of reliability started with the jump to perpendicular recording.
I don't know about that, I seem to recall a lot more dead drives leading up to perpendicular recording (and I don't miss figuring out the ideal interleave, manually marking out bad sectors, carrying out real low-level formatting).
just brew it! wrote:(I'm assuming that by "DeathStar" you mean the infamous GXP series drives, not the newer DeskStars made since then. I was a little surprised that Hitachi kept the DeskStar branding, given its history.)
just brew it! wrote:Oh yeah! I was actually going to mention that but it's been awhile and I was myself wondering if I'd made that up. Anyway, I'd agree that what you received seems reasonable. I guess I will put them back on the list for HDDs. (Which, at this point, I will probably buy 3-4 more of over the entire rest of my life. )I also had them arrive rattling around in a box with a far-too-small sheet of bubble wrap taped to the drive that didn't even go all the way around.
JohnC wrote:As for packaging - Amazon's current packaging is pretty decent:
[pic of very well packed hard drive]
drsauced wrote:I have heard that the density on the platters is just about at the maximum, the capacity is coming from better compression and error correction.
drsauced wrote:The Deathstars were a real thing, though, lots of those died (what 10 maybe out of 25 drives purchased) before Hitachi bought the business.
drsauced wrote:Western Digital seems to have a good track record, actually.
drsauced wrote:Sorry for the staccato English. I'm drunk and tired. Cheers.
Linux fdisk tool wrote:The device presents a logical sector size that is smaller than the physical sector size. Aligning to a physical sector (or optimal I/O) size boundary is recommended, or performance may be impacted.
just brew it! wrote:Deanjo wrote:just brew it! wrote:(Heh, at this point I guess I should be leery of it because it may be getting close to dying of old age, not because it is a 7200.11!)
Bah... My Diamond Max 10's have been going 24/7 for close to 8 and half years and still going strong. (Although looking at the powered on hours in SMART makes me giggle).
Guess they got their act together on the DM 10s. That was during the period where I wouldn't buy Maxtor because of the train wreck that was the DiamondMax 9 (which I consider to be Maxtor's version of the 7200.11, more or less).
keltor wrote:I'm simply saying they don't ALL have no warranties.
just brew it! wrote:I consider the length of warranty to be (very) loosely correlated with how reliable the manufacturer expects the drive to be. All else being equal I'll take the drive with the longer warranty. But I'm not willing to pay much for more warranty.