Poll: Reliability of Various Storage Drives

I have had a hard drive fail on me

  • Yes

    Votes: 976 85.1%

  • No

    Votes: 171 14.9%
  • Total voters
    1,147
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

I've had 4-6 Hard Drives die at work on the Dell Workstations in the past 2 months. Western Digtial and Seagate drives

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

I had one fail on me, but it was user error...I damaged it

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Yes...but from phycial damage

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

I back up data when I do a OS reinstall, or back up my quicken data when it propts me too.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? No

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? Yes, but I got over it.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Yes, kids machines: 1 known good acronis image on network storage; Better-half: Nightly external, bi-monthly image to net. Personal: whenever necessary, to external & network.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
No

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
No

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
yes

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
All personal files saved via DVD/CD or FTP
 
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1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes. Bad Sectors (4-5 years ago), last WD I had would not be recognized even.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Nope, I have 1 of these.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
I have one External HD, no problems

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, read errors.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes,

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes. Backup to USB2.0 HD, then burn to DVD when I have full dvd worth (PIctures).
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Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? YES

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) NO

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) NO

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? YES

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? YES

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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YES
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

no

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

no

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

no

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

yes
 
1.) No. (one IBM 80GB, 3.5 years with no problems, 1 WD 120GB for 2 yrs, no problem)
2.) No. (Kingston 32MB --yes, that small)
3.) Kinda. Notebook HD in an external enclosure, somehow the FAT got corrupted. The drive itself is perfectly fine, still in use today.
4.) Yes, yes, yes.
5.) Yes.
6.) Kinda. It's a little like a diet. The plan is in place, but I need to work on disciplining myself to stick to it!

 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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Answers:
1.Yes
2.Yes
3.Does not qualify
4.Yes
5.Yes
6.Indeed.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes. 3 in a Sun SparcStation, and one in a PC.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never used one.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yep

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Nope

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Hell yeah.
 
1. Yes, several.

2. No.

3. No.

4. All the time with older generation CD-Rs and CD-RWs (old like 1x or 2x), but never with the newer stuff.

5. Yes.

6. No, but I typically don't hold on to hard drives for more than a couple of years and I wouldn't have my computer plugged in or turned on without a UPS. So I'm not too high risk.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
YES. THREE IBM DRIVES. That still pisses me off, two 60GXPs and one 45GXP.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Nope, my two work fine.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never have used one.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
No, but I burn a lot of stuff and dont ever touch them again.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Not a very good one. I just make backups of all my documents every time I format and install windows.
 
1. Yes (usually right away. Never had a hard drive fail that has made it past the first year)

2. No

3. No

4. CD-R Yes, DVD-R Yes

5. Yes

6. Yes but just manual. No software is used.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
yes
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
no, do not own one
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
no
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
yes
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
yes from formating a IDE drive thinking it was the SATA volume

6. Do you have any sort of back up regime?
Yes i us NTBACK UP and GHOST
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Yes
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes Early Seagate RLL and IDE < 130meg.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) Yes Heat issues in the case. Ventilation updated.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? No

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? Yes It still happens.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Yes
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) no

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) no

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? yes, typically re-writable media

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?no

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? yes
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.
Click to expand...


1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes, 1 of my 7

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? No
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, happened last week.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
NA

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
NA

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, the media itself

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. No
6. Yes
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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Ans 1. Yes. In the last 6 yrs, ive had about 4 drives fail on me.
Ans 4. Yes. Many. With time, some media become unreadable.
Ans 6. Yes. I back up every 2 months or so onto dvd-r.
 
1. yes (1 of 17)
2. no
3. no
4. yes, cdr's that are varying years, from 1yr to 4 years, even a couple dvd-r's
5. no
6. no (I have plans, but most of the stuff I would want to back-up is tv shows & movies which are huge, and would require like Ultrium3 backup. But i'm not high risk, i have my computers on UPS & all of my data is on seperate hard drives Windows-Apps-Games-Networked Storage-Media Server)
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes
 
1. No, never had a hard drive fail.

2. Nope, used 4 cheapo USB Pens and not one has failed.

3. (Never used one)

4. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs have failed on me a lot

5. Yes, a lot of my files get mysteriously erased, I chalk up up to me having deleted them without realizing it.

6. Only for my media (videos/music) and games. Not for my other personal files.
 
1. YES.

2. NO

3. N/A

4. YES MANY

5. YES

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? yes

50GB windows partition for programs. with a 3GB clean install Ghost image.
100GB My documents partition backed up Bi-Yearly
Multiple Storage drives, most content backed up on DVD-Rs
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?Yes here is a list...
540mb Quantum (anyone remember those?)
5.1gb WD
10gb Seagate
40gb IBM (deathstar series)

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No, never owned one

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Hard drive no, external drive yes. Iomega Jazz bit the dust

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, lots. The black memorex CD-R's stores currently sell is about 50/50 in my experience. but regular memorex are fine.also had problems with no-name media but that is my fault for buying the junk!

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Only once, back in the old DOS days

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Mirror RAID
 
1) Yes, Seagate Baracuda 9GB SCSI
2) Yes, Emprex Microstorage 2.2GB / Lexar 256MB
3) N/A
4) Yes, CDRW drive and media
5) Yes, Late night format and install of Windows on wrong hard drive...
6) Yes, back up my important files to external HD
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes 3(Two IBM 60GXP and a Maxtor)

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
None (own 2)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
None (own 1)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes (Many times just happens)

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes (Multiple hard drive back ups in multiple computers)
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

Yes, I've had plenty of personal drives and plenty of business related drive failures. Over 50 Deathstars for example.

So far the most reliable recent drive has been the Seagate 7200 series with 2 failures, and the failure wasn't catastrophic, just bad sectors and smart errors. The worst has been WD's special editions. I bought a lot since they were fast and only 75% are still running after 2-3 years.


2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

Yes, one the contacts finally wore to the point of not connecting anymore even after cleaning. Another after it was washed in the laundry.


3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

Yes, a handful of maxtor externals died, and many more power supplies for them died. So far the seagate and WD externals have been fine.


4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Yes, scratches, labels peeling off and taking data with them, easy to split a DVD since it's 2 pieces. Also automated optical backup software sucks and will fail to do its job.


5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

No, due to proper backup procedures, shadow copy, and ontrack disk recovery tools :eek:


6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

External hard drives for media files, tape backup for financial and important documents. DVD archiving of photos that are also on external hdds. DVD archives I store in another location. RAID-1,5,10 on anything important and my personal workstations.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? - Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) - Yes

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) - Yes

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? - Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? - No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? - Yes
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) No
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) No
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? Yes
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Yes
 
Opened up a new western digital drive right out of the static bag from newegg. Plugged up and all I heard was a very loud whining noise.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
- yes, at least 3 or 4, and they almost always have my important stuff or someone elses

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
- no, and I haven't heard of one failing either

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
- yes, I had the controller (IDE to firewire and USB) die on one

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
- yes, left it out in the sun...

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
- I'm sure I must've

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
- yes, store important files on a seperate partition and backup partition to an external drive when I feel it's time.
 
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