In Delhi, Past 7 days I bought 3 Seagate 300gb Drives & all of them turn to be faulty in-line. first time ever in past 7 years of my IT Life i ever saw New Seagate drives to be faulty. All of them are the Old 7200.9 SATA ones.
Something strange i saw with these drives was that they came inside a Plastic casing box like Samsung Drives which i have never seen with seagate. Seagate's always used to come in Electrostatic polyethene always. Interestingly when i returned the hard drives & recieved the new Healthy ones, they came in the usual Electrostatic polyethene rather than the plastic box & worked like a charm out of the box.
The faulty hard drives do spin right but don't get detected. One of the drives i managed to get detected afterswirling it up/down for a moment while its spining & then restarting it. Anyways, Just wanted to share the experience of a possibly bad lot. If anyone else experiences same pls do post..
thx
Something strange i saw with these drives was that they came inside a Plastic casing box like Samsung Drives which i have never seen with seagate. Seagate's always used to come in Electrostatic polyethene always. Interestingly when i returned the hard drives & recieved the new Healthy ones, they came in the usual Electrostatic polyethene rather than the plastic box & worked like a charm out of the box.
The faulty hard drives do spin right but don't get detected. One of the drives i managed to get detected afterswirling it up/down for a moment while its spining & then restarting it. Anyways, Just wanted to share the experience of a possibly bad lot. If anyone else experiences same pls do post..
thx
. They came in a Electrostatic Polyethene wrapping though...
