Julian C. Dunn

Today I sent another SATA hard drive back to Seagate because it failed. You might recall that I have had a bad track record with SATA drives: since purchasing this PC about two years ago, I’d gone through about three Western Digital SATA drives (all replaced under warranty due to failure) until I finally got fed up about six months ago and bought a pair of Seagate Barracuda 250 GB drives. One of them failed after three months, and the other died just this past weekend. Fortunately, my PC is RAID-1 protected (and I have all the data backed up on DLT) – but seriously, why are SATA drives so prone to failure? Continue reading…