How many HDDs/SSDs have you lost?

[James_McKeane]

The only hard drive I have lost was on a Packard Bell 486SX (Win3.1) my family owned that crapped out some time before 1996 (i remember this because I wrote a report in QBasic when i was in the 3rd grades since the OS was corrupted). I've also had a drive die on a Gateway G6-350 (Pentium II, Win98, also owned by my family). Gateway replaced it, but not before shipping the replacement with Windows Me (dear lord...just...don't ask...). The pc my parents currently own they bought in 2004 (Pentium4 505, WinXP). The HD either craps out or gets a nasty fake antivirus on it. A simple non-destructive restoration usually settles everything.

The point of all that is after some point HD's became more reliable (or at least for me it did). I run two laptops and an external hdd and never once had a corruption or write error. Hell, before I threw out the old gateway for my parents, I took the HD out and threw it up and down the street, and it had absolutely no effect on performance of the OS.

So what say you: how many drives have you lost?

[Deviantsteam]

I've lost 0 HD's and 3 SSD's. OCZ has made some crap drives for me

[Donut417]

Ive lost 2 notebook hard disk and 1 desktop drive. The one notebook drive died so I installed a new one and 6 months later that one died. Western Digital sent me a larger drive as an RMA replacement so no complains. The desktop drive was taken out by a power surge. Lucky it was only the drive and not the rest of the machine.

[fishymamba]

None,I have a 80GB HDD from 2003 and it is still working! I put Linux on it and it works great! Transfer speeds are slow as hell, but that is to be expected.

[iRandomize]

Only lost one 80GB WD laptop hdd, after serious abuse. When i contacted WD, they offered med a 250GB replacement :S. I wanted an SSD and turned it down, feeling that it was my own fault the HDD broke.

[Ssoele]

I've never lost a drive due to hardware failure, only by formatting the wrong drive and really losing a drive. I've lost I think 3 drives by just forgetting them somewhere are losing them somewhere at home.

[the_devil52]

I've only had one die. It was some crappy 60Gb drive from an old school computer (no I didn't steal it :) ).

[xzero]

I've been pretty lucky, only ever lost one drive, a cheap maxtor 500GB external I bought some years ago.

[KushKomputers]

I have lost 3 HDD laptop drives and 0 SSD

[FireFox]

I've lost two hard drives (some 250GB Seagate thing and a WD Scorpio Blue 750GB) in the same laptop I've had for almost 4 years mainly due to being knocked around a little which was my fault.

The hard drive I have currently is a 750GB WD Scorpio Black and its running great.

[star102]

I never lost a drive but brother lost 3 velociraptors

[Andy28]

had a 300gb WD blue scopio die on me after 1.5 years of having the acer laptop.

Had a WD 2tb external die on me

Had a WD 2tb Green die on me.

I own 5 Ocz vertex 2/ 3 line, all have been great for me not an issue, but my cruical m4 256gb I've gotten some issues with boot up on the OS taking a wide range of times from 1 minute to 4 minutes, not too sure had to reformat it, and hope it doesn't act up again and hope it was just some random OS corruption and not the hard drive messing up

[NihKiller]

Lost only one hdd. a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3,5" drive, that i lost last year or something. After that, im only going to go for SSD's in my rig....

[Prettyfinej]

I had one laptop hdd die while under warranty, everything else has survived for me.

[Skyhawk Delta]

I've only lost 1 laptop HDD to failure, even though my sister's is still running after undergoing way more physical abuse than mine ever did.

[IdeaStormer]

SSD's 0, probably mainly due to the lack of them or low count but now that I remember one did die, the user fell (laptop in backpack) and it killed the SSD drive, yes they fell and the drive died, OCZ didn't buy it either till they got the drive and shipped out a new one as it was under warranty.

Hard Drives N, been at it too long, a couple months a go a box with who knows how many was shipped out to the shredders. Then again we are mainly on spinning hard drives. Persaonlly maybe two or three, I consider dead drives that have repeated bad sectors, still useable but I'm not chancing it.

[DLM_012]

Only one external hard drive. I was PO too when Toshiba didn't honor my warranty because they had recently just switched their policy. Like a sucker, I bought another one but it was a USB 3.0 model lol. I love the drive and haven't had any problems with it but most people would have a sour taste in their mouth after an experience like that.

All of my other storage never sticks around long enough to die since I usually wipe them several times and sell them on Craigslist.

[Lyons]

I've only lost lost a 2tb WD Green, only lasted about 2 months... and I have a 160gb Toshiba Hard drive that crashes constantly, no matter how much formatting and reinstalls of windows I do.

[Godlygamer23]

One laptop hard drive failure. That's all. Thankfully.

[mgsstar]

None yet :) Hope I can keep this record going

[Konn]

Lost 1 hard drive in 2 weeks from getting the Asus G53.

[limetech]

I had a drive die before, an 80gb WD drive, it was a pretty old one. I'm glad I was able to recover my data.

[kpsl808mg]

...most drives will work for decades...the killfactor is hard abuse...after all, nobody can prevent wear and tear...

[KOtech]

Still got mine from 2007 left.

 

[X1XNobleX1X]

I've lost 0 HD's and 3 SSD's. OCZ has made some crap drives for me

So true! I will never buy a OCZ drive again. I do think that their drives are getting better though.