<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Unfortunately, 7200.11 drives are crap anyway and tend to die soon<br>
with lots of bad sectors, even after you unbrick them. I think I have<br>
had about 5 of mine do that, and had to be replaced under warranty. I<br>
had one drive that had to be replaced twice!</blockquote><br>I've got 5 1.5TB 7200.11 drives. One is my recordings drive for Myth and the other 4 are in a RAID5 that is mostly full of my DVD rips. Two of the RAID drives are showing high relocated sector counts so will fail at some point (one of them is reporting imminent failure). The other three drives have relocated sectors too, but very low numbers. Some of these drives are over 3 years old, including both the drives with high relocated sectors, so they are out of warranty. All the drives have the CC1H firmware. The 7200.11 series definitely has problems, but it seems to be a matter of luck. The main reason I've stuck with Seagate is their longer warranties.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>