You still havent answered my question so my point still stands. If the drives were good why would people be complaining so much about them???
Yes, I have answered your question, several times. The internet has given everyone a voice, and they choice to use that voice to bitch about things that didn't work perfectly. Which is why you can find the same stories about every manufacturer, or pretty much every product created in the world. Will you find a non-satisfied customer is far more likely to post about it on the internet than a satisfied customer that puts the product in use and never thinks about it again.
Like i have said before. I mentioned that I have read and heard more re-occuring horror stories about Seagate drives then any other HDD manufacturer. WD have had problems but once they get it fixed, you tend not to hear anything from them for a long time as they sorted the problem out.
And as has been pointed out in the thread several times, anecdotal argument means nothing. Besides my own experience with thousands of drives over the past years working as a tech and then owning my own shop(and as Kantastic so easily picked up on, I say this as a basis for volume of drives seen, not as a "I own a tech shop na na na na"), there are the actual studies that covered way more drives than any of us will probably see in our lifetime that give actual hard numbers that prove you wrong.
If a consumers keep complaining over and over again because drives keep on breaking, who are YOU to tell them they are full of shit?
Again, this is where you seem to fail at understanding my argument. I'm not saying people complaining about the drives failing are wrong or full of shit. I'm saying you find the same stories about drives failing from every brand. I'm not making the argument that Seagate drives don't fail, I'm making the argument that other manufacturer's drives fail just as often. See the difference? Probably not...
your failure to answer my question proves my point.
A lot of useful information is shared over the internet.
Yes, and a lot of people bitching about products not working is shared to. But that doesn't really prove anything. As I and others have pointed out.
TPU is one of the sites that share lots of information on PC hardware and customisation etc etc. IF everyone at TPU were to recommend an i5 setup, would you listen to our recommendations of thousands people or would you be a douche and do the complete opposite and get some old AMD Sempron because "the internets says so" ???
It seems you would be that douche buying the AMD Sempron because "the internet says so". After all, your whole argument is based on "the internet says so". According to you, the internet says Seagate is bad after all. I haven't see a whole lot of people not recommending seagate around here, maybe you can point some out. Haven't even seen a lot of Seagate horror stories either. As I said, the last HD failure thread I read was about a WD drive...
Your point is invalid. and you can tiptoe around the issue and troll as much as you like because youre so great you work in a pc repair store but that doesnt automaticly make what you say correct.
No, the fact that there is actual numbers backing me up and not just anecdotal BS is what makes me correct.
Yes I listen to the internets. and the internets have kept me from making bad mistakes when it comes to purchasing hardware. who are you to say otherwise?
Back to you buying that Sempron because the internet says so then, right?
Wrong. The problems with this series are well documented and went beyond the firmware for many people.
Not really, they had normal failure rates beyond the firmware issue. Though a lot of the problems were caused by people flashing drives with firmware that wasn't meant for their drives. People say 7200.11 and immediately flashed it with the firmware, which caused more harm than good, as not every 7200.11 drive had bad firmware, and the fixed firmware wasn't designed to work with every 7200.11 drive either.
Wrong again. I know for a fact that of the two firmware fixes floating around for these drives I chose the one designed for my drives based on the criteria Seagate gave on their website which was very clear. Get off your goddamn high horse. You're simply wrong about these drives.
Not likely, and I'll explain why.
You said you bought the drives and flashed the firmware before even using them. Meaning the fixed firmware was already out, likely for a good while, before you even bought the drives. This means the drives likely came with good firmware already, and probably weren't even supposed to work with the firmware that you blindly flashed.
And I'm guessing that "criteria" you used was "its a 7200.11 drive, so I'ma flash that firmware"...