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Old December 18, 2010, 12:00 PM
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Two of them were acting as back up so they receive minimal spin time yet they both died. The most recent dead drive was a recertified RMA return from Seagate. /rant/ Grr. I'm quite frustrated right now.
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Old December 18, 2010, 12:39 PM
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GL with the RMA hope you haven't lose any data.
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i still have 3 or 4 of them working just fine but there still out there most of the ones i found that had this problem where made in china
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Old December 18, 2010, 01:47 PM
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Two of them were acting as back up so they receive minimal spin time yet they both died. The most recent dead drive was a recertified RMA return from Seagate. /rant/ Grr. I'm quite frustrated right now.
This just reminded me I still have a 1TB "recertified" dead drive to RMA with them. I have had 4 (I think) die on me, needlessly to say I won't be buying them anytime soon. I even asked them on my last RMA to supply me with a 7200.12 drive due to the issues with the .11s and they said nope, I'll get whatever I get.
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Old December 18, 2010, 02:28 PM
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The 7200.11s have a notoriously bad reputation for being unreliable. That being said, I have had 2 of them in RAID1 for over 4 years and they are still working just fine.
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This just reminded me I still have a 1TB "recertified" dead drive to RMA with them. I have had 4 (I think) die on me, needlessly to say I won't be buying them anytime soon. I even asked them on my last RMA to supply me with a 7200.12 drive due to the issues with the .11s and they said nope, I'll get whatever I get.
That is pretty terrible of them, basically telling you NO FRESH DONKEY, YOU GET HALF DEAD DONKEY.
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Old December 18, 2010, 04:16 PM
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The 7200.11s have a notoriously bad reputation for being unreliable. That being said, I have had 2 of them in RAID1 for over 4 years and they are still working just fine.
NO they did not.

They had a bad batch in around Nov-January of 2009-2010 and that was it. It seemed to be a wide spread problem because the internet made it out to be such a HUGE deal.

People really need to read about it instead of listening to what everyone said.
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sorry about that. swap for wd's, those will let you know in time when its rma time, usually.

i did/do a bunch of rmas :D
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NO they did not.

They had a bad batch in around Nov-January of 2009-2010 and that was it. It seemed to be a wide spread problem because the internet made it out to be such a HUGE deal.

People really need to read about it instead of listening to what everyone said.

IIRC, the reason so much was made of it was that seagate took wayyyyy toooo long to admit there was a problem and then to address the issue. Add the fact that the first "fix" (firmware update) ended up bricking a few drives and it's not surprising folks remember it.
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How do you RAID WD Blacks? They don't allow RAID? RE4's cost a hell of a lot.
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