Rubbish Hard drives

[mdvaden]

Never really had a problem with desktop or laptop.

 

We tend to upgrade every 3 or 4 years.

 

My laptop has been around for a couple of years - part time use. Our oldest son's has been fine.

 

Ever tried an external drive?

 

I use one to backup a lot of photo and video file stuff and all else.

 

It enables it and my desktop to store the greater masses of data and keeps me from needing an excessive grade laptop for storage.

 

Mine is an HP and ours son's is too.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I had a Compaq desktop computer nothing but problems with the hard drive, got to be the worst piece of shite ive ever owned. Got a sony vaio laptop now apsolutley fantastic.

 

Cheers Ian, you've just confirmed what I thought, I've just been and had a look what make the desktop was which had a hard drive go down and that was compaq

[Mesterh]

Hard drive is about the most important bit in your pc.

 

I have always bought Maxtor drives and had never had one fail

 

Its not really who makes them but what parts they use.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've still got the hard drive from my daughters "new" computor that went after a few months and that is a Western Digital.

 

I have a DVR recorder for my security cameras that has two hard drives in, it has been running and recording 24 hours a day for 5 years with no problems whatsoever.

 

I needed to open the case and see what drives they are

[Justme]

Most hard drives dont die they get murdered (bumps knocks drops sudden movement whilst accessing data all take their toll). Especialy in laptops. Lots of laptops now come with sensors to make the drive safe in the event of danger. As drives are one of the few moving parts in a pc / laptop it no wonder that that is the most common failure point.

 

 

Justme

 

PS Maxtors do fail but less often than other makes & their warranty is (or should say was cos I am out of that industry now so it could have changed) one of the best.

 

In general we found that IT kit either failed in its first month or went on for years. Hard drives had a failure rate of less than 3% (and we were selling direct to joe public which increases the failure rate in those days substatualy). The highest rate was on pci modems when they first came out but most of that was user error or storm damage.

[Dean Lofthouse]

My mate used to install computor systems in offices and factories.

 

They used to crane and forklift, yes I said "Crane", a 20mb hard drive unit into the building, each 20mb unit was made up of 1mb discs.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Most hard drives dont die they get murdered (bumps knocks drops sudden movement whilst accessing data all take their toll). Especialy in laptops.

 

My laptops never move, they are on the office desk and don't move anywhere.

[Marc]

We have 2 Dell laptops, one is 2 years old the one i'm on now 3 1/2 years old, both work faultlessly, the wife regurlarly cleans them by backing up all the files on 2 seperate back up hard drives, then formats the system and reinstalls windows, it keeps them running super fast and stops them getting cluttered.

 

Recently bought a new Acer laptop, lasted 3 months before self detonating beyond economical repair.

 

Have just bought another Dell, will be giving one of the other dells to my parents.

 

Can't fault our experience with dell so far.

[Justme]

My laptops never move, they are on the office desk and don't move anywhere.

 

You have been very unlucky then.

 

Justme

[Ian Leach]

They just don't build anything to last anymore.