Re: Barracuda ST31000528AS problem

Chris Cox wrote:

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:50 +0100, Piotr Szymański wrote:
Hi All,

I have two Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1 TB (ST31000528AS) drives in a
Linux software RAID-1 configuration. Today I've got a notification
from smartd that one of the drives (sda) is failing:

:-)

Well, IMHO, it's because it's a Seagate. Ever since Seagate
purchased Maxtor, the quality has gone WAY downhill.

With that said, you might want to investigate flashing
the drive firmware. But IMHO, you'll be better off with
a WD drive or even a Hitachi drive today.

YMMV.

Ironic, I found Maxtor to such and always used WD and Seagate, but after
I had a bunch of WD's fail (I mean, far too many to ever give me hope
they are worth trying ever again), I switched to Seagate. I had a few
fail, which was unusual. I'm using Seagate now, because out of Maxtor,
WD and Seagate, I still trust them more. I've not had a failure since,
but I have 4 redundant backups in full preparation that they will fail.
I personally think that when they bought Maxtor, that they used the
Maxtor designers and quality (inferior) on the "used to be better"
Seagate team, and that's why both suck now. But, that's my opinion and
theory, I've never looked into it. I just don't trust any drive
manufacturer. I used to use Hitachi, but had issues with them as well.
Fujitsu is the only brand I ever had not a single problem with, but I
don't recall if they went out of business or if they were just too much
money (really, not too much if they don't fail), but I pretty much
don't trust any brand anymore. Everyone's had inexcusable experiences
with all brands and models, and maybe it was a heating issue, or maybe
they were just unlucky. Eventually, no matter the drive brand or
model, everyone's going to be unlucky. All I can say is, at this
point, the only brand I'll avoid indefinitely, based on my experience,
is Western Digital. I'll use Maxtor before I use WD's again. I'll use
Seagate before I use WD, and I might otherwise have to start looking
into it again if I have these fail (but 3 years on 16 of the same
brand/model Seagate SATA II drives and I'm still very happy (for now)).
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
.

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