Storage Solutions New 7200.12 HDD failed

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SMPS is changed. New Corsair VX450. This is my third 7200.12 to crash guys! All other HDDs are working fine, tried WD Green (but returned it as it was too slow) and touchwood 640 WD Blue from Amarbir is working fine.
 
Doc Holliday said:
SMPS is changed. New Corsair VX450. This is my third 7200.12 to crash guys! All other HDDs are working fine, tried WD Green (but returned it as it was too slow) and touchwood 640 WD Blue from Amarbir is working fine.
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keep taking regular backups using automated tools.

If you can't stop the disaster,better be prepared for it.

btw, do you run torrents or do Live Video recording(TV or Survilance use)?
 
Doc Holliday said:
This is my third 7200.12 to crash guys!
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Download and install SpeedFan.
Run it, Go under 'S.M.A.R.T' Tab, Select you're failing 7200.12 500GB, What do the green fitness and performance bars show?
I'm guessing Fitness will be about half full and performance almost full..?

Now Click on "Perform an in-depth online analysis of this disk". When the page opens, what's the RAW value of Reallocated Sector Count.
Are there any NOTE's at the end of the page?
 
Run system diagnostics test for your disk with everest and notice the temperature of your drive. I have a sata and a pata drive and i have observed that the sata drive runs around 4-5 degrees cooler than pata. When gaming around 8 degrees cooler. I guess you hdd got damaged in shipping. Get it RMA OR GO FOR DOA.
 
Crash can be due to other reasons also like power fluctuations etc.

Whats your model no.?

It would be ST3500....

Also run the above tools and revert with SMART values.
 
Guys, let me get this straight. The hdd is already dead. Not detected by bios, either on this PC or others.. I just think the Seagates are crappy.

For automated backups which is a good solution? Take a WD Passport and use the inbuilt backup feature? Space (as in GBs) is not premium to me, so should I buy a WD Passport or a WD My book?

Model of DEAD SEAGATE IS ST3500418AS
 
Doc Holliday said:
Torrents, yes, but not all the time. Weekends mainly. Could that be the reason?
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Torrent does put a lot of stress on HDD due constant read and writes cycles. it worsens if you have a high speed internet connection but still alone cannot be the reason for failure.

Your looks like a bad batch.

for backup, WD 1 TB 3.5'' Essential seems a nice option
 
SyncbackSE freeware. Saved my butt a bunch of times. Spread the data over three or more drives, with critical data over at least two separate drives.

WD has an equally high failure rate, FWIW. I've lost two 1TB AACS and one 640 AAKS drive to early failure, DOA and gradual bad sectors. The good thing about WD is the RMA procedure, infinitely better than Seagate's. I once got back a 750GB in lieu of the 640, and a 1TB EADS instead of the AACS (though once I did get a refurb that went bad).

In all cases I ended up losing precisely zero data due to a well-planned backup strategy over 6 hard drives of differing capacities and run cycles.
 
Just sent mine for RMA - 500GB 7200.12 :|

looks like this model is no better than its troublesome 7200.11 siblings.
 
Ran into a bit of bad luck myself a week back. Was not able to initialize a 7200.12 (brand new right out of the packaging). Kept getting a CRC error.

SMC was of great help just replacing the drive with a new one even though I had picked it up in May and not used it.
 
using same 7200.12 500gb for 4 months and it is sailing smooth..
did you confirmed yours is not that 32mb buffer faulty firmware disk??
check with their website or google using your disk model for the same info.
 
ronit said:
using same 7200.12 500gb for 4 months and it is sailing smooth..
did you confirmed yours is not that 32mb buffer faulty firmware disk??
check with their website or google using your disk model for the same info.
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Wasn't the firmware issue specific to some 7200.11 disks? I think they were.

My model is ST3500418AS and firmware is CC34. Is the firmware an issue here?
 
|Anish| said:
Just sent mine for RMA - 500GB 7200.12 :|

looks like this model is no better than its troublesome 7200.11 siblings.
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dunno...have used a seagate 7200.9, 7200.10, 7200.11 and now using a 500GB 7200.12, but not once in all these years did one give even the slightest problem...honestly..
 
I have a Hitachi 160GB since 3 years and not one problem with that drive. My problems started when i got 7200.11 and .12 :|
 
i guess this discussion clearly states that having a bugfree seagate 7200.11 or .12 is purely a luck factor. ;)

Some say, even the old firmware buggy 7200.11s are yet running superbly while others are even complaining for newly 7200.12s which is an improved/ rectified version over .11.:S

i guess next time when anybody wanna buy seagate, he should visit temple or any place of worship, attend a jyotish and nikaal a muhurat just to get that perfect harddisk.:rofl:----after all its data you cant afford to screwup.
 
I think it depends on the area.some have frequent power cuts or voltage fluctuations. These drives must be sensitive to these variations which are causing them to fail.
 
cranky said:
SyncbackSE freeware. Saved my butt a bunch of times. Spread the data over three or more drives, with critical data over at least two separate drives.

WD has an equally high failure rate, FWIW. I've lost two 1TB AACS and one 640 AAKS drive to early failure, DOA and gradual bad sectors. The good thing about WD is the RMA procedure, infinitely better than Seagate's. I once got back a 750GB in lieu of the 640, and a 1TB EADS instead of the AACS (though once I did get a refurb that went bad).

In all cases I ended up losing precisely zero data due to a well-planned backup strategy over 6 hard drives of differing capacities and run cycles.
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+1 for SyncBack. Works well for me.
 
ya bro
i too have seagate baracuda 7200.12 which showed 58 % read errors in a day or two . this is a mass problem . the best option is to get it replaced . ihv given my hd 4 replacement on 23 oct and still not received it . now their is a custom problem 4 seagate users :(
 
I just got replacement of two my drives from Seagate - one in 5 days and another in 2 days. Very happy with the service, only if the product quality of the 500 GB HDDs were up to that standard!!
 
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