Bought a new external Seagate 4TB drive at Canada Computers. It tested horribly for a new drive Its S.M.A.R.T. parameters were 85%. I posted here for advice and had a Seagate person contact me. Said he would send me a new drive.
Yeah he sent me a new (internal 6TB drive. And it even tested 100% on extended test. But in only a few days it died. . New drive!!! Seagate software gave it a long pass before this happened. I tried it as SATA in my PC. Tried it with USB to SATA adaptor in another PC. Finally took a 3rd USB to SATA (just in case my hardware is faulty somehow) and plugged it into my laptop. "USB device has malfunctioned and Windows doesn't recognize it". On the third or 4th try it finally came online and I could hear the reading head clicking. So just in case I reformatted it. Plugged it back into my main desktop and.... not visible on Refresh in Device manager and... my PC won't reboot while it's plugged in as SATA . I just get perpetual Windows loading screen. Pulled it out, rebooted - PC reboots fine as long as it's unplugged. I seem to be able to get it to work on 3rd or 4th try as USB to SATA. But it goes offline whenever it wants to, intermittently... obviously I will not put my data anywhere near this drive now...
What's worse, - even the Seagate drive I exchanged my originally bought one at Canada Computers is testing below 90% I am on my way there to exchange it for WD if they allow it. I cannot trust Seagate any more. Wasted money and weeks of wasted time. And I can no longer trust mine and my customers' data to something like Seagate. my trust is 100% gone. Yeah, maybe it's a fluke, and it's just one bad drive after another, and yes maybe this "could happen to anyone" or "any drive make" - but I honestly just feel like it's one coincidence too many...
The Seagate software gave a pass on the Long Test to all those drives. I can only conclude the software is not reliable. Now I feel that their hardware is not reliable. I would think that if a company sends you a replacement drive, they would at least try to SEND THEIR BEST - so that this situation wouldn't happen. Apparently not. I bought hundreds of different drives over the years, working as a PC builder and technician. I have never had this kind of situation with another manufacturer. NOT WITH NEW UNBOXED DRIVES, that just came from the store.
If something like this happened to you - please let me know. This situation is horrendous, I don't want this to happen to anyone else, especially if we're talking data loss.
Yeah he sent me a new (internal 6TB drive. And it even tested 100% on extended test. But in only a few days it died. . New drive!!! Seagate software gave it a long pass before this happened. I tried it as SATA in my PC. Tried it with USB to SATA adaptor in another PC. Finally took a 3rd USB to SATA (just in case my hardware is faulty somehow) and plugged it into my laptop. "USB device has malfunctioned and Windows doesn't recognize it". On the third or 4th try it finally came online and I could hear the reading head clicking. So just in case I reformatted it. Plugged it back into my main desktop and.... not visible on Refresh in Device manager and... my PC won't reboot while it's plugged in as SATA . I just get perpetual Windows loading screen. Pulled it out, rebooted - PC reboots fine as long as it's unplugged. I seem to be able to get it to work on 3rd or 4th try as USB to SATA. But it goes offline whenever it wants to, intermittently... obviously I will not put my data anywhere near this drive now...
What's worse, - even the Seagate drive I exchanged my originally bought one at Canada Computers is testing below 90% I am on my way there to exchange it for WD if they allow it. I cannot trust Seagate any more. Wasted money and weeks of wasted time. And I can no longer trust mine and my customers' data to something like Seagate. my trust is 100% gone. Yeah, maybe it's a fluke, and it's just one bad drive after another, and yes maybe this "could happen to anyone" or "any drive make" - but I honestly just feel like it's one coincidence too many...
The Seagate software gave a pass on the Long Test to all those drives. I can only conclude the software is not reliable. Now I feel that their hardware is not reliable. I would think that if a company sends you a replacement drive, they would at least try to SEND THEIR BEST - so that this situation wouldn't happen. Apparently not. I bought hundreds of different drives over the years, working as a PC builder and technician. I have never had this kind of situation with another manufacturer. NOT WITH NEW UNBOXED DRIVES, that just came from the store.
If something like this happened to you - please let me know. This situation is horrendous, I don't want this to happen to anyone else, especially if we're talking data loss.