Seagate Article Follow-Up
My Seagate drive is still running. Impressive. It's now been 7 months since its been installed, and no problems yet. Hopefully this does not jinx it.
I have received a few e-mail from people with similar problems. The most outrageous incident has to be one catching fire. I will not publish their names (since I never asked if it was ok), but I will publish their words. If anyone sent me something, and you want your name printed, or you want your words taken down, just ask. I didn't think of saving the complete messages until I had already deleted many of them.
The one I am most disappointed that I deleted is one that was pro-Seagate. The person who wrote me was very adamant about how great Seagate drives were. The use of all caps proved how serious they felt. This person also claimed to have written Al Shugart, CEO of Seagate, personally to thank him for making such great drives. Al Shugart was so grateful for receiving a positive comment on his drives, he sent out the writer a free 2 gigabyte hard drive. So the writer claims. Who am I to argue?
Here are some of the other messages I have received:
Dear Sir.
I was unaware of this, and I bought a Seagate HDD 4 months ago, 1276 MB HDD, and I've had a lot of problems with it. It starts going off by itself too, both in Windows, and sometimes in DOS, no it's not a virus, I have formatted it n times, fdisked the thing half as many times, but sometimes it just wanders off...And sometimes when it does that...Horrid!
It deletes files by itself! And not A TRACE OF THE FILE! I've run unerase/undelete and I've looked at the FAT with disk-editors...NOT A TRACE!!! It's really weird. Worse is, if it's spinning off (worse?) and the computer tries to access it...It continues to spin off, and the computer locks. I have a new Western too, came with the new P166 I bought (fortunately!) so I'll survive. But you're right. And I thought I had a special problem! Someone should look into that firm! They are "dangerous"!
Thanks for the info sir!
I am software developer, all I use is seagate and only had one bad chipset. Please e-mail me and tell me more.
I had similar problems with my seagate hard drive, except that mine caught on fire. It took four months to receive my new one
Dear sir,
After reading your commentary regarding the failure of the hard drives it recalled my recent experience with their drives. I had purchased their 1.6 gig drive late last year and it failed within 3 weeks!! since my vendor was reputable he exchanged it for a 2.1 gig it failed in 2 months and took 3 weeks to repair with 2 calls every day for the last 2 of the three weeks its fair to say that I drove my vendor's RMA department crazy, but I did not have to wait as long as you did.
Since my experience I have told at least 23 different individuals about my experience and warned them. Needless to say that they did not purchase their drive and are passing the information on their friends. I have in the past had a few of their SCSI drives in my servers at work and I have had problems with them in the past with failures but I was lucky enough to have mirroring of the drives.
I am a computer technician. In our store we USED to carry Seagate drives. Our main stock is now Fujitsu. You would not even begin to believe the number of Seagate drives that were returned. I would say that about 25% of the drives sold were later returned. We have had very few Fujitsu drives returned. It is a rarity to see a Fujitsu drive come back to us. I just don't understand how seagate has come to have this unwarranted reputation with the general public. People need more education!!
i bought a 2.1 wd from a circuit city type store owned by tandy/radio shack. the store was going out of bus so got a great deal but it was bad right out of the box. i have a 1.2 seagate and have been running it for over a year and have had to fdisk and low level several time due to win95'.