Seagate Multiple Hard Disk Failures

[muhammad]

well guys here in Pakistan you dont get the luxury of geting a good psu specially the branded ones , mostly they all come from china or singapore etc.

well i was able to find this one .

CODEGEN 450W

+33v +5v +12v -5v -12v +5vsb
20a 22a 16a 0.5a 0.8a 2a

why do i get this feeling that this psu is not that powerfull for my rig mentioned above ....

i need help please dont know whats happening here , i have an intel 875pbzlk board , i never installed any sata drivers before windows picks it up itself , if there are any drivers for these harddisks then where do u find them.

also if there is a psu problem then why does not the problem happen all the time why just out of the blue suddenly.

Please help

[kosmiq]

Your PSU might be a problem if it is of bad quality, but HDD's dying sounds a little strange to me.
Any good PSU on 400w would easily be able to handle your system without any problems. 400w can take you very far and minding the fact that very few, even very new PC's with very new hardware, won't use all of the 400w avaible. What can be a problem is the maximum combined wattage on the +5v, +3.3v, -5v, -3.3v part of the PSU. But generally that won't be a problem either. Any 500w PSU of a good brand can handle 2x6800GT (SLI), 2gb RAM, AMD 64 X2 4000+, several HDD's and a few optical drives without problems.

About seagate I have only good experiences with them and I personally have 5 Seagate drives right now. 1 of them I have had for 5 years now (30gb IDE), 2 of them for 2 years (160gb SATA) and 1 for about a year (200gb IDE).
I also have 1 maxtor drive 200gb IDE. None of the HDD's has ever failed me or given me any problems whatsoever. Many of my friends also uses seagate drives in their PC's and have no problems.
Cheap Seagates? Seagate are more expensive than Maxtor or WD whenever you purchase a seagate 7200.7 or 7200.8 Barracuda drives and a lot more reliable. Lets not forget the fact that they are also making less noise than most WD drives.

If you want to try things out try another brand of HDD and see if the problem still comes. If it does I say something else is wrong and would recommend you to change PSU.

[Sidney]

Hmm, I remember that not that long ago Western Digital poached one of Seagate's top engineers for the express purpose of making their own drives more reliable.
That doesn't indicate to me that Western Digital drives are a very good proposition.

[Grumpy]

@Sidney
hmmm, funny you should say that! I have used Western Digital hardrives for many years and have never had one fail on me! But I have also had only 3 Seagate hardrives, they all died!!

[Luciel]

Same as grumps, every single HDD ive had was and is a western digital, never had any issues, except for one which was seagate and it started running slower and slower and slower until my machine acted like it was a 486 dx running win xp lol, you get the picture...