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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
In article , DevilsPGD
says... So to sum up, **** all has changed so what was the point again? Seagate is sending a bad message... That's significant. Or they are saying that their drives are so good that a 3 year warranty is sufficient. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
you can see all the pages a visitor looks at when browsing the visitors and clicking the look for the last page and thats the last page they browsed, is that what you mean? -- MagicOPromotion *-XRumer 5.0 Palladium: best promotion software-* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MagicOPromotion's Profile: http://memoryforums.com/member.php?userid=19 View this thread: http://memoryforums.com/showthread.php?t=35185 |
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In message Conor
was claimed to have wrote: In article , DevilsPGD says... So to sum up, **** all has changed so what was the point again? Seagate is sending a bad message... That's significant. Or they are saying that their drives are so good that a 3 year warranty is sufficient. No -- Companies are about profitability, you don't make a change that customers will potentially perceive as negative unless it's profitable. If there weren't any drives dying in the 3-5 year range, there would be no harm in leaving the default warranty longer. |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
On May 17, 11:03*pm, (GMAN) wrote:
In article , wrote: My 1.5 TB harddrive just blew after about 4 months... a few days after filling it too.... Thanks Seagate! [Seagate Barracuda (ST31500341AS) 7200.11 SATA 3.0Gb/s 1.5TB] ... It's my own damn fault for going for the best gig/$ deal I guess... and backing up that much stuff was not an option financially... *I always expected it to fail but I had hoped it would last a year or two at least, by then I could update to raid 1 or buy a 3tb drive or something... Anyways.... this piece of crap is still under warranty, and they will send me another piece of crap to replace it... but I really don't want to go through this again, I will never trust this brand now that I've been assraped... I'm thinking the only way I can use the new piece of crap their going to send me is if it is in a RAID configuration of some sort.... RAID 5 looks nice but I'm sooooo not ready to fork out another $300ish for two more 1.5 TB drives What are my options - with redundancy and scalability in mind? *Can I just start out with some kind of 2 disk mirroring configuration and then later add the third disk (converting to raid 5 here) and the fourth and fifth in the furture? I guess I'm asking if you can convert go from a two disk x 1.5 TB raid 1 setup to a three disk x 1.5 TB raid 5 setup without reformatting... ....my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed OMFG!!!!! * It has only been 6+ months that Seagate has had a firmware update to prevent this from happening and you are blaming them for not notifying you? I have two of those same drives and applied the fix day one! I also have *750 GB unit. BTW, the data is still there and they offer a free recovery for you if you contact Seagate!!!!!!!!!! That is of course if you didnt freak out like a baby and immediately reformat the drive.- Hide quoted text - Your data wasnt worth an extra $119 ????? WTF? It begs the question... What if the original poster panicked and lost his data, called Seagate, and then came here to whine about it. Maybe that is why it was his first post under the alias. GMAN: In the future you might want to read a bit more before you stick your foot in your mouth so deeply. If you had actually read the links you provided you would see that the firmware issues affected "A SMALL NUMBER" of these drives. Mine was not one of them - it was shipped with the latest firmware. Don't assume. And no: the data was not valuable enough to justify paying twice as much, the hope was that the drive would last more then 6 months. If you had read this thread fully you would have seen that too. This drive has a lot more problems then just firmware. After your foot removal I suggest you educate yourself more, maybe check out the specific reviews for this specific 1.5 TB Seagate model (not the 750gig model you have) on Newegg.com Goodluck. |
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dennispublic live.com wrote:
On May 17, 11:03’pm, winnie... pooh.com (GMAN) wrote: In article cd6612d4-8e0c-4999-9953-1a0bf9c80... r34g2000vbi.googlegroups .com, dennispub... live.com wrote: My 1.5 TB harddrive just blew after about 4 months... a few days after filling it too.... Thanks Seagate! [Seagate Barracuda (ST31500341AS) 7200.11 SATA 3.0Gb/s 1.5TB] ... It's my own damn fault for going for the best gig/$ deal I guess... and backing up that much stuff was not an option financially... ’I always expected it to fail but I had hoped it would last a year or two at least, by then I could update to raid 1 or buy a 3tb drive or something... Anyways.... this piece of crap is still under warranty, and they will send me another piece of crap to replace it... but I really don't want to go through this again, I will never trust this brand now that I've been assraped... I'm thinking the only way I can use the new piece of crap their going to send me is if it is in a RAID configuration of some sort.... RAID 5 looks nice but I'm sooooo not ready to fork out another $300ish for two more 1.5 TB drives What are my options - with redundancy and scalability in mind? ’Can I just start out with some kind of 2 disk mirroring configuration and then later add the third disk (converting to raid 5 here) and the fourth and fifth in the furture? I guess I'm asking if you can convert go from a two disk x 1.5 TB raid 1 setup to a three disk x 1.5 TB raid 5 setup without reformatting... ....my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed OMFG!!!!! ’ It has only been 6+ months that Seagate has had a firmware update to prevent this from happening and you are blaming them for not notifying you? I have two of those same drives and applied the fix day one! I also have ’750 GB unit. BTW, the data is still there and they offer a free recovery for you if yo u contact Seagate!!!!!!!!!! That is of course if you didnt freak out like a baby and immediately reformat the drive.- Hide quoted text - Your data wasnt worth an extra $119 ????? WTF? It begs the question... What if the original poster panicked and lost his data, called Seagate, and then came here to whine about it. Maybe that is why it was his first post under the alias. GMAN: In the future you might want to read a bit more before you stick your foot in your mouth so deeply. You have messed up the quoting, Dennis. If you had actually read the links you provided you would see that the firmware issues affected "A SMALL NUMBER" of these drives. Wrong... The firmware corrected a problem that effected a small number of those drives. Mine was not one of them - it was shipped with the latest firmware. Don't assume. Do not tell lies. the hope was that the drive would last more then 6 months. Again... Any drive can fail at any time. This drive has a lot more problems then just firmware. Says someone who does not know enough to back up his data. Too much coincidence, Dennis, you should have at least mentioned the firmware thing in your original whine. Again... Your complaint about the drive might be valid (it looks less valid now than it did before), but your complaint about losing data is just whining since you should always have a backup. Goodluck. Path: nlpi059.nbdc.sbc.com!nlpi062.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy. com!nlpi057.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!news.glorb.co m!postnews.google.com!f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com !not-for-mail From: dennispublic live.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate! Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 82 Message-ID: 599d7573-067f-4662-8e0e-6bd296fe51f7 f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com References: cd6612d4-8e0c-4999-9953-1a0bf9c80b42 r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com MS6Ql.252013$5Z3.158031 en-nntp-05.dc1.easynews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.233.79.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243237160 25224 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2009 07:39:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 07:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com Injection-Info: f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.233.79.7; posting-account=kVvLMQoAAAAc5hKGYRNfRKOTj7WUDTPI User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: prodigy.net alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:518612 X-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 03:39:20 EDT (nlpi059.nbdc.sbc.com) |
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Syfo-Dyas wrote:
1. Sad but **** happens. You are not the first and wont be the last. 2. No matter the cost you MUST back up if you care about your data. 3. While I am not a lover of seagate, any and I mean any HD can go bad no matter what brand it is. 4. The data as was said before is still there UNLESS you formatted already. 5. If you cant afford to back up your data then you cant afford to have the data mean anything to you!!!! Did you understand the last sentence??? If you have 1.5 TB of data and cannot afford to by another 1.5 TB drive, then here is what you do u get all the other little 300 and 200 GB drives and use THEM to back up your data so that when the 1.5 TB dies you will NOT have to come here and feel like your questions are not being answered. If u listen to what I said here anyone will have to agree these are very good responses to your problem. They may be a little late but is that really our fault here on the group??? Best wishes... Can any of you people snip? And why the feck did you feel the need to repost your tripe again 12 days after the original post? -- SteveH |
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On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:31:51 GMT, "SteveH"
wrote: Syfo-Dyas wrote: 1. Sad but **** happens. You are not the first and wont be the last. 2. No matter the cost you MUST back up if you care about your data. 3. While I am not a lover of seagate, any and I mean any HD can go bad no matter what brand it is. 4. The data as was said before is still there UNLESS you formatted already. 5. If you cant afford to back up your data then you cant afford to have the data mean anything to you!!!! Did you understand the last sentence??? If you have 1.5 TB of data and cannot afford to by another 1.5 TB drive, then here is what you do u get all the other little 300 and 200 GB drives and use THEM to back up your data so that when the 1.5 TB dies you will NOT have to come here and feel like your questions are not being answered. If u listen to what I said here anyone will have to agree these are very good responses to your problem. They may be a little late but is that really our fault here on the group??? Best wishes... Can any of you people snip? And why the feck did you feel the need to repost your tripe again 12 days after the original post? Why did u feel the need to respond to it since it was not meant for u anyway? |
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