Seagate Multiple Hard Disk Failures

[muhammad]

Guys,

i am runing in to some serious problems with my hdd , It all started when my old 120gb seagate sata hdd went dead , There used to be this noise which used to come from the hdd when loading windows or sometimes when starting a game etc.

as it had no warranty left i discarded the drive , it worked fine for about 10 months or so.

then i went and got a new seagate 120gb sata hdd , i came back installed the drive , loaded up windows and installed some games , Well after some time i noticed that the same type of sound which used to come from my old hdd was comeing from this new hdd.

i was confused , i just got this new hdd whats the problem , well so i returned it and got another 200gb sata seagate hdd and a 80gb sata hdd.

i have installed windows with sp2 on the 80gb sata and install games on the bigger drive.

well all went well for about 2 days , last night again i heard that same sound from the 80gb hdd .

what the hellllllllllll is happening here ..............

all these hdd cant be bad or can they ......either seagate is making ****y drives or there is something else wrong.

well i disconnected all the power cables to the drives , i dont know i could be wrong but i think that my psu is not giving enough power to the drives hence they make that noise.

i need help guys , should i give back both the drives and get a hdd from another company.

I was thinking of Samsung or Western Digital , samsung is offering 2 years warranty.

whats happening here , need help ,,

thanks

[Luciel]

u sure its the hdd thats making the noise?

[Neipas02]

Seagate does make crap drives.. I won't buy a seagate again.. all oem drives tend to be seagates because they're cheap.. and they're cheap for a reason.. I don't care about the 1 or 2 guys that have had good luck with seagates.. I know they're crap seeing as how i've gone through about 4 or 5 of em.

Your PSU may be underpowering them.. Is it like a clicking or a grinding?.. 3 drives in a row is a little extreme for them being factory rejects.. I'd actually thought about the PSU before you mentioned it.. Try and return them now since you've stressed em and then get yourself a new bigger PSU.. how big is the one you have now btw?.. Then spring for a new Smaller cheaper hard drive by someone other than seagate.. Westerd digital and maxtor are decent. But these are just suggestions.

[muhammad]

Well the sound is like the hard disk is trying to read something or write but it cant , Like the platters are trying to move but they dont.

it happens like a little grinding sound and windows freezes and after some times a blue screen shows up something like kernel-data error or something.

strange all the drives i changed could not have the same problem , i dont know but somehow i think it could be psu.

i am geting a little sick of this now its been 2 weeks and frustration is seting in.

i was thinking of geting a Samsung 200 or 250gb hdd sata what do u think.

lets suppose if it is a psu issue how wouldi be sure of it , should i dissconnect all the other drives and only power the sata hdd to check them.

i am sure my 400w psu can handle 2 sata hdd.

My system specs are as follows.

Intel P-4 3.0e H.T 800fsb
Intel 875pbzlk
2gb DDR-400 Kingston
80gb Eide
80gb Sata
200gb Sata
Sony Dvd Writer
Sony Dvd Rom
Sony Cd-Writer
Msi- 6800u 256mb
Audigy 2 Zs
Asus Tv Tuner
Creative 7.1 thx speakers


Well for some reason or the other i think all these items put a load on the psu , well if it does then the system should reboot all the time but it does not.

PLEASE HELP

[DABhand]

Use another SATA driver when installing windows, perhaps the one your using is actually too quick. Get an updated one from your motherboard's website or sata controller's manufacturer.

[DABhand]

Yeah 400W may not be enough for your System, with 4 IDE and 2 Sata, CPU, Sound Card, GFX card, TV card,etc

I would say 600W to be on the safe side, no use going for 500W just incase you get something else and you need more from your PSU.