PVR Fail, whats your story?

[Incongruent]

ok... it has been a while since i last posted here... and that's because GBPVR has been working so well for me and i had finished all the tweaking and was into the day-to-day....

...BUT NOW Seagate has ruined my zenn and their inferior product has toasted itself. My 500GB barracuda disk containing my OS and Program files suddenly stopped being recognized on boot this morning. Apparently they have a huge firmware issue that is wide spread and after a number of months writes a bad journal entry to the disk which causes the drive to be forever stuck in a "BUSY" state and will not even get recognized in BIOS on boot.... Lesson = don't buy seagate.... I've sent the disk in for some data recovery covered under warranty and according to others with the problem the data should be safe since the firmware is the problem.

The most unbelievable part though is that only 3 days before I installed a 1000GB drive and moved all my media to that disk. Amazing save.

I just thought i'd take the time to complain about Seagate and their poor product. Stay away.. buy Western Digital or ANYTHING other than Seagate/Maxtor.


Anyone else have a PVR story about how their PVR failed?

[pcostanza]

I have 2, 1TB Seagates though only 1 is in use and has been since December. I updated them both so they should be ok but I'm thinking I'm going to stick with WD for my next few drives.
I have an older Dell that has an old 250 Seagate in it and about once a month, it just disappears. A few reboots and I'm good.
I've got so many drives that my backups are backuped.

[stustunz]

i have all brands fail its just one of those things
by the way you shouldnt have been recording to the same drive you had your operating system on anyway
The operating system drive always fails
It is best to record/save files to another harddrive and the chances of losing everything is cut to almost nothing

[BrainStormer]

My Dad't Barracuda just shutdown this weekend too. It seems part of the time I can accesses it and part of the time not.

These drives definatly are trash.

[pcostanza]

i have all brands fail its just one of those things
by the way you shouldnt have been recording to the same drive you had your operating system on anyway
The operating system drive always fails
It is best to record/save files to another harddrive and the chances of losing everything is cut to almost nothing

Definitely agree with that!

[reven]

i have 2 1.5TB seagate drives, both are rubbish. both had the firmware issue, and stuffed up my drobo, and then my drobo died (well one hdd bay in it), and drobos first response was "its your 1.5TB seagate drives, they're bad, its not us, its seagate", even though the drive bay that died didnt have the seagate 1.5TB hdd in it.

so 2 things have bugged me, seagate, and drobo. drobo is really cool in theory, but in practice there are a lot of issues to be worked out.

[pcostanza]

Even after updating the firmware this happened reven? I'm getting more and more concerned about my drives now. :eek:

[reven]

Even after updating the firmware this happened reven? I'm getting more and more concerned about my drives now. :eek:

one drive seems fine, but another drive seems buggy, not as bad, but still dont trust the drives.

i would never buy another seagate drive, especially since a WD drive is just a few dollars more.

[mvallevand]

My last XP system stopped working because my OS was installed on a RAID 0 pair of drives. They were both WD 80MB drives and one has an unrecoverable error. I don't think you can have a general rule against these brands. However RAID 0 is stupid and if there is a performance benefit the risk isn't worth it.

Martin

[User]

I bought a 320 gig Seagate about a year and a half ago on sale to upgrade a 120 gig recording drive. I was starting to have some problems with playback so I checked my win2k logs and found disk read errors dating back 3 months. I replaced it with Western Digital, No more Seagate for me. I really liked IBM drives but they sold their drive division to Samsung I think.