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Mine hums in the key of G.dgatwood said:WD drives are pretty much the Behringer of the hard drive world---they're cheap, functional, and noisy.
SonicAlbert
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dgatwood said:
That's a good point. What happened in this cluster of HD failures I've had is that my live work drive and it's backup went down together. I had the mix for a feature length film on them, not just the music but the whole dubbing mix. We hadn't printed it yet, but had finished the mix. I mean, we are talking about that "I think I'm going to throw up" feeling, sweating like crazy, the whole thing.
Fortunately, I was able to salvage the data off those drives using Tech Tool Pro 4 (Mac). It took a very long time, like over a day of the computer just churning on the data.
However, the system drive that went down since then has not been salvagable by Tech Tool.
The other issue is that I don't know what has caused these problems, whether it's software or a hardware failure of the computer looming. The problem in all three cases I believe is severe directory damage.
The other thing I should mention is that no matter what they say * do not* hot swap firewire devices.
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TheDewd
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Well, to me, Seagate and Maxtor are about the worst I've seen. Maxtors go wrong all the time (especially new ones like you said...) and Seagates, well, we had a bad batch at university...something like 50 computers with new faulty hard drives. This makes me believe Seagate is crap.dgatwood said:WD drives are pretty much the Behringer of the hard drive world---they're cheap, functional, and noisy.
It also depends on what model you buy in the line up. Professional WD drives are quite good IMHO.
SonicAlbert
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When we are talking about drives here, are we referring to bare drives, or drives that come already built into cases? How many of the drive failures were drives that we put into cases ourselves?
Two of mine are that, actually, all of them if you count mounting one internally in the computer.
Do you think Maxtor quality checks the drives more stringently if they put them into their own enclosures? Like the Maxtor One Touch series, for example?
Two of mine are that, actually, all of them if you count mounting one internally in the computer.
Do you think Maxtor quality checks the drives more stringently if they put them into their own enclosures? Like the Maxtor One Touch series, for example?
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I'm talking about bare drives.SonicAlbert said:
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My guess? Bad RAM.
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TheDewd said:
There's not a manufacturer out there that hasn't had a bad model. This past year, it was apparently WD's 250GB Caviar drive. (The review there is comparable to a number of reviews on other sites.) The year before, it was the IBM DeskStar 10,000 RPM series. The year before that, it was probably someone else.
And then there are the new WD drives that don't work with the SATA chipset in either PowerMacs or Intel-based Macs. When it comes to drive design, WD seems really inconsistent.
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SonicAlbert said:
Probably. I'd imagine they also test their retail drives more than their "white label" OEM drives. You save the money, you take the risk.
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All of my drives, with the exception of the one in my first pc, have been WD and installed by me. Never a glitch out of any of them. The first WD drive I installed in my second computer ever, which was self built and is still running fine after 5 years.
It seems to me that alot of people have had different experiences with different brand drives. I found something that works for me and am happy.
It seems to me that alot of people have had different experiences with different brand drives. I found something that works for me and am happy.