Seagate Hard Drives Rule

Did anyone see this story:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/hard-drive-recovered-from-shuttle-columbia-used-to-complete-expe/

They recovered a Seagate hard drive from the Columbia crash site and managed to extract 99% of the data from it, unbelievable!

Wow... that's amazing. I was reading about some data recovery company that has apparently recovered data from drives in fires, at the bottom of the ocean, and several other disasters. Makes me even more paranoid about my own data!

Thats actually pretty incredible. Im kinda curious as how they technically do it now

Western Digital would have been like this:


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I like Seagate too, but I don't imagine it had much to do with the brand of the hard drive, as much as it was the quality of the recovery service.

Recovery services are expensive because they actually disassemble the drive in a laboratory clean room and attach the platters to specialized equipment that recover the bits of data directly. Then, they search the collected data and try to recover any trace of usable data.

Pretty cool stuff.

Seagate > Maxtor > Western Digital

I have had great success with WD HDD's. In fact thats the only thing I buy. I have never had a WD drive die and I have had 2 Seagate's die. But this is from personal experience and mines probably different from somebody else's.


Not trying to start a WD/Seagate battle here.

KB3GZW said:

I have had great success with WD HDD's. In fact thats the only thing I buy. I have never had a WD drive die and I have had 2 Seagate's die. But this is from personal experience and mines probably different from somebody else's.


Not trying to start a WD/Seagate battle here.

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I think it's one of those "your mileage may vary" type of things. In my line of work, I've seen hundreds of failed hard drives. The most common in desktop drives are Western Digital, without a doubt. Maxtor is a close second, and Seagate after that.

As far as notebook drives? By far, Hitachi drives are the worst. Toshiba is a distant second, followed by Fujitsu. I have never seen a failed Seagate laptop drive, nor have I seen a failed Western Digital (of course, they haven't been in laptop drives all that long).

I tend to agree, the only thing they have in common is that they will eventually fail

So far my WD hard drive that I brought from my PC is going 4 years strong.

So you said Seagate and Maxtor HDDs are better than WD, yet you still bought one? I don't get it. Why didn't you just buy a Seagate or a Maxtor?

KB3GZW said:

So you said Seagate and Maxtor HDDs are better than WD, yet you still bought one? I don't get it. Why didn't you just buy a Seagate or a Maxtor?

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Honestly, this is like the Ford vs. Chevy debate. Everyone has their own preference, but it's hard to get absolute reliability statistics. For me, it comes down to warranty - and Seagate's is the longest, which speaks a lot to the confidence they have in their product.

Hey, sorry did not mean to start a drive war, I was just amazed at the story that anything had survived such a dreadful event and that some good, albeit small will result.