Seagate 7200.11 High Failure Rate

[Rod Speed]

I have in the past and still today continue to buy the highest density, single platter drives for they are a tad
quieter, draw less power and have the thinnest profile.

Your problem. There clearly arent enough who do the same thing for NewEgg to bother with.

Most users don't have a need for all that space.

Stupid to not get the bigger drive when it costs no more.

More capacity is not necessarily better,

Wrong, as always.

and that is more true today with the phenomenal platter capacities.

You're using the same PLATTER capacitys yourself.

Most likely though, they dropped ("deactivated") the product because of the high failure rate.

Have fun explaining why they havent dropped the bigger 7200.11 drives.

Given the data,

You have no data.

hypothesizing anything but that is ludicrous.

Nope, not when others are also dropping those smaller drives too.

 

[Squeeze]

Arno Wagner wrote in news:[email protected]

I think you will just have to cut your losses and move to a different brand.

My main reason for reading this group is to get an impression of
what is reliable at a particular time and what is not.

If only that were true, Babblebot. If only that were true.

 

[Arno Wagner]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148316&Tpk=ST3320613AS
: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3320613AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache
SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM at NewEgg: Deactivated Item.

Looks like NewEgg has dropped this product. I'm leary about all 7200.11
drives, not just this model, given the user reviews.

Interesting.

Arno

 

[Tony]

Interesting.

Step it up: I'm afraid to touch these things! I have them here, .... I am
afraid of them... it won't be this weekend.

 

[Rod Speed]

Step it up: I'm afraid to touch these things! I have them here, ....
I am afraid of them... it won't be this weekend.

You can always hide under the bed, child.

 

[Tony]

You can always hide under the bed, child.

The monster hard drives won't find me there ya think?

 

[Tony]

You can always hide under the bed, child.

That of course is silly, because everyone knows better than to perturb the
evil dust bunnies. (You're such an idiot).

 

[lasse.storholt]

I'm on my sixth 7200.11 drive, none has worked for very long(max two
days). I've got an dell xps 720. Got another 500 7200.10 drive that is
running flawlessly for 6 months, but I can't get these new 7200.11 to
work. Seatools fails sometimes, but the main thing is seektime. all
the disks have had seek times up to 190 ms. ... I started noticing it
when the disks seemed slow. formatting the disks might work
sometimes, but it all seems a little to random.
I've moved the disks around on the different sata ports, with no
luck.
Two of the disks i bought was online, the other two(as been replaced
once) was from a retailer. Total 6.

Lasse

 

[Tony]

I'm on my sixth 7200.11 drive, none has worked for very long(max two
days). I've got an dell xps 720. Got another 500 7200.10 drive that is
running flawlessly for 6 months, but I can't get these new 7200.11 to
work. Seatools fails sometimes, but the main thing is seektime. all
the disks have had seek times up to 190 ms. ... I started noticing it
when the disks seemed slow. formatting the disks might work
sometimes, but it all seems a little to random.
I've moved the disks around on the different sata ports, with no
luck.
Two of the disks i bought was online, the other two(as been replaced
once) was from a retailer. Total 6.

The latest 2 7200.11s (320 GB) I got from Seagate have SD22 firmware and
were manufactured in China and have been working now for 2 weeks or so (216
and 90 hrs power-on time). All the previous ones that failed in much less
time than these have been powered on had SD11 firmware and were manufactured
in Thailand. Resume from S3 standby is spotty, but that may be unrelated to
the new drives (new OS install/config).

Tony

 

[katfishgr]

rod speed?

I'm getting quite a good laugh out of this Rod Speed fellow. You think he works for Seagates PR department?? LoL ...

I would have to agree with you Tony. These 320gb 7200.11's with firmware SD11 are garbage. I've been through 3 in as many days, all failed within 20 minutes of each other. Some cause post to hang during drive identification, some are picked up as 0.0mb and sometimes aren't picked up at all. All three are OEM from my vendor, Maxgroup. So no doubt they have been pulled from the same box in succession.

My older 320g 7200.10's run rock solid in a raid 0. Forget doing that were these drives. There's an obvious widespread problem with all of the reports posted online. I think I read that one vendor alone who sold 29 of them, rcvd 17 of them back, all failed. I am going to check with my vendor in the morning and see if I can find out if they too have been getting alot of these back.

Date codes on mine are 08386, with site code TK. So far I'm 3 for 3 in the failure department. Sounds like a bad run of drives. Of course, Seagate hasn't heard anything about a problem, so the online tech chat rep says. Then again, thats part of his job to not acknowledge a systemic problem.

So anyway, I won't be replacing these with more Seagate's, simply return them and get a different brand of drive.

Are you finding the SD22 any better on reliability? Read anything online about them??

And to that boob, Rod Speed, lmao ... your somewhat annoying allthough partly entertaining.