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[Bionic]

 
Word of advice from me about these really unreliable and nasty drives.....THEY DO NOT LAST!
I bought 3 of them, all new,  2 of 320gb and a 250gb to use in my backup external drives and after 4 months all of them have failed........none will recognise and all they do is stutter. I have ran every disk repair program I know and they remain duff. Even a data recovery firm said that they had loads of them in so that says something I reckon.
I had a looky on the pc techy forums and other ones and all say the same thing....DO not buy them, you will regret it sooner than later.
Now to look for another few WD, samsung or Hitachi ones that I know can be relied on....
My lesson has been well and truly learned.

[TheBoy]

All manufacturers go through bad patches, including Samsung, Hitachi, IBM, Seagate and WD. Many of these are now one of 2 comapnies anyway.

But there are some really truely low quality drives out there, and while they can be "OK" in a desktop, they lack any protection from shock, so unreliable in portable units.

[Terbs]

I think Seagate are on the blacklist at the moment, according to the reviews I have read recently on various forums.
Seems they have a high failure rate at the moment, but as TB says, they all suffer at some point

[Bionic]

Hmmmm, Seagate have been taken over by MTD I heard so the failures are no real surprise if that is true.....
  My problem is that I take great care of my drives and they are never subjected to any shock, damp, or temperatures outside their parameters. They are all kept in a safe environment in protective cases. Looking at the many adverse comments on the various forums there are quite literally hundreds who have had failures of MDT drives for no apparent reason and they can't all have abused the drives when some who have commented are professionals with the industry.
I certainly will not trust them again cos one had been made in China, the other in Malaysia and the last from Korea. All therefore could not be the same batch and I reckon the drives are inherently suspect. No wonder they are cheaper and that was my problem....it will never happen again though. MDT you can shove where the sun don't shine......Fortunately I have other backups on a couple of WD 500Gb and a WD 1Tb MyBook so nothing was lost.
Postie has just delivered my new 2Tb WD My Book so I can get all my movie collection onto that now.....and salvage the lesser one to another task, probably into my laptop in place of the 750....
Paragon Drive clone here I go...

[TheBoy]

Did they all come from the same supplier? For example, I won't buy HDDs from Bluepoint any more...   ..they must play football with them.

[Martian]

Word of advice from me about these really unreliable and nasty drives.....THEY DO NOT LAST!

I wouldn't expect a cheap refurb to last no matter what it is.