ratmice Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 In the past I have had issues with drives going belly up and they have all been 1.5 TB drives. They also see to run much hotter than all my other drives. Just yesterday I came home to a message on my MacPro desktop stating that my internal 1.5 TB drive had 40 bad blocks and I should backup all data and zero out the drive. Just bad luck or is there some inherent problem with these drives. I don't have access to them here so I'm not sure if they are all the same model, but I believe they are Seagate green drives. Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I've had 2 1.5tb drives in service ever since they came out. There was a period whereby allot of bad press was published for the 1.5tb drives. In comparison, I've had 2 Seagate 1tb drives go bad. Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Almost half my drives are 1.5TBs. Samsungs. They seem to run cooler than the others by a few degrees accourding to the smart coming through. Don;t know if it is just a setting issue with the sammys but I've had no problems. Josh Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nope, it is just a matter of luck. Everyone has bad drives from time to time, and it is human nature to associate a string of similar bad experiences are the result of a single common cause (this is the basis of brand allegiance). Certainly there can be strings of defective drives caused by a defect in manufacturing, but to discount all 1.5 TB drives as crap is an unfounded generalization. Quote Link to comment
brian89gp Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I have 6 of the original Seagate 1.5tb models, used every day for going on 3 years now and not a single problem. Quote Link to comment
johnm160 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I have had problems with both of the 1.5 seagates I own. They were the early models though. Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I have a couple in my array that are running just fine. Hell, I still have a WD 500GB AAKS in my array that has never given me any trouble. That drive has been running great since the day I bought it. Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Certain batches probably were, just like certain batches of 2T and 1T and 500gig and 200gig and 40gig and 2gig and 250meg and etc and etc drives have been bad over the many years HDD's have been produced. Hell, I still have a WD 500GB AAKS in my array that has never given me any trouble. That drive has been running great since the day I bought it. Me too as the cache and it spins non-stop with a lot of reads and writes. Peter Quote Link to comment
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