Seagate's "random freeze" problem: worse than reported?

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Sad but seemingly true ...

I have been using Seagate drives for years and for the first time I am having problems. Usually I just try to coax a dying drive back to life, but when I lost a nearly new Seagate 500MB a few months ago (part of a software RAID array), I just pulled it and RMA'd it back to Seagate. Now, with all of this coming out, I'm glad I didn't mess around with it. Seagate used to be at the top of my list and WD at the bottom. But maybe while Seagate quality seems to be going in the tank, WD has really gotten their act together and seem to be tightly standards compliant now (which was my beef with them in the past). And at the same time Seagate seems to be drifting away from standards compliance in order to support wiz bang Windows kudges. So WD is looking better all the time and may well be my next upgrade choice.

Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 12/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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