Seagate Firecuda HDD. Dead in 30 days.

[BootinUp]

Replaced a 7 yr old Barracuda .5G that was still working in a 7 yr old Asus gamer laptop. Freaking Best Buy won’t take it back. Thing just died right in the middle of the Dem debate, but started developing bad sectors last night, no previous signs. I’m restoring a backup to the original drive and then buying the SSD I should have. I’m pissed.

[Hoyt]

1. SSDs are so cheap nowadays, and cloud storage is cheap too.

Just don’t trust spinning, mechanical drives as much.

[BootinUp]

2. I was surprised how low that price got

Stupid me didn’t even look much at them. Crucial has a nice one. The new drive was because the old one scared me especially with upgrading to win 10, i didn’t think it could handle all that.

[UpInArms]

3. Seagate hdds suck

Always prefer western digital... they are so much more robust

I worked on many computers, the seagates failed frequently

[BootinUp]

4. The barracuda line has a good rep

AFAIK. I always look for the longest warranty. The dead one expired about 5 years early.

[UpInArms]

5. I try to go with a product I trust

Because the warranty won’t get your data back ... jmho

[BootinUp]

6. Sure. Me too. Nt

[mr_lebowski]

7. That's very odd ... hopefully it's not actually the laptop ...

7 y.o. is pretty old for a lappie. Could be your HD controller failing ... hopefully not though.

SSD is kinda a no-brainer for a laptop at this point, but I will say I have 4 HD's in my desktop ... 3 spinners that are 7-10 y.o. and one SSD ... which I just replaced after about 4 years.

They DEFINITELY wear out ... esp. when used as a System drive. In my case, much faster than my less-used spinners which are still going strong.

And they tend to die pretty sudden-like. Backups are key

[BootinUp]

10. The original drive is working well. It's not the puter, it

Was heat that killed it. When they named firecuda it might have been because they run real damn hot.

[CloudWatcher]

8. Warranty?

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I've never heard of a disk drive that didn't have a warranty measured in years! 3 years used to be typical, I'd shop for 5 years. Unless it was embedded in an Apple product of course

Did Best Buy say to return it to Seagate or imply you were just screwed?

[BootinUp]

9. It has a 5 year warranty.

They offered to send it to Seagate. I am not satisfied with that not when it breaks that quick.