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Agreed. The drive was carried over from a failed previous PC, but now I realise
the HD was the thing that caused the failure, not the MB, like I thought...Damn.
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Ive been feeling like there’s a low key Archie crew on here is there a thread?
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Because of SMR technology which is shit for daily use but fine for backups, are cheap, and people don't know to NOT use these disks for their main OS.
"Oh look a 12TB disk for $99! I'll run everything on it!"
<disk slows down and crashes>
"WTF SEAGATE!"
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Oh you don't even know about the late IBM DeskStar aka DeathStar. You had a server with RAID 50, tons of drives, one drive died, no big dea-oh they all started stripping the storage medium from the glass platters at around the same time and they're dropping like flies! Worst hard disk ever.
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i presume they don't know the creator of earthworm jim is a conservative christian type?
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They probably do and are doing it to take the piss. Same thing with Notch and Rowling with x is trans, trans rights, and miku made this etc.
it seems they are built to fail as quickly as possible, i am starting to have bad sectors on my barracuda so i needed to change it with a toshiba, after 2 years... gotta be a joke. my WD blue is hanging on without problems and i have another WD (320GB) that is past 12 years here fine and dandy.
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Do George Floyd next, I want to see the Fentanyl buffet.
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The Seagate drive failures I encountered were smaller capacity 80, 160, 320, 500 GB. The first typical sign of failure were that Windows would run slowly or files would randomly become corrupted or unreadable. When diagnosing faults with a PC firstly I boot a Linux distro from a USB thumb drive and check the hard drive SMART data with the disk utility. If the drive is failing I can attempt to recover important files and documents to an external USB drive.
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Always use externals. Clicking seems to be the 100% sure sign of a HD under death sentence.
The only advice is to back everything up. We all know this, but we sometimes let it slide.
The only advice is to back everything up. We all know this, but we sometimes let it slide.
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earlier seagates were prone to a firmware corruption. You had to upgrade the firmware before they stopped becoming boat anchors. There was a huge recall around the early 20teens for them.
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I replaced my hard drive this year. I dont really understand computers, but a friend had told me that my computer problems were because my hard drive was failing.
It turns out my hard drive was a faulty model that had an expected life of 2 years.
I had been using it for 10 years.
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Ok I can't resist jumping in. Everyone seems to have forgotten the massive floods that happened in Thailand (I can't remember which year this happened but it's a recurring thing). Most if not all of the hard drive manufacturers got hit by this since all their eggs were in one basket. Seagate seems to have really cut quality around this time -- maybe they didn't fully decontaminate their production lines? This is outside of firmware issues etc. that I've seen with Seagates as well, but it was a big one.
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There is a very, very narrow set of failures that this has any chance whatsoever of helping with (misalignment preventing thermal expansion compensation from going right) but idiots still try this to this day.
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There is a very, very narrow set of failures that this has any chance whatsoever of helping with (misalignment preventing thermal expansion compensation from going right) but idiots still try this to this day.
it's only effective on older HDD's and for like, 30mins at best then back to the freezer it is. RIP my 120GB samsung, at least i managed to take my important files out of you by freezing.
5 years minimum, unless they are fucking seagate, their doomclock ticks at 2 years always for the recent lineup, there was even a HDD fail listing recently and seagate pass it with flying colors, the cunts. sadly HGST ain't for sale.