Hard drive breaking AGAIN

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Pyotr

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My hard drive is currently working on it's last straw. It still works, and I still use it perfectly, but since my old hard drive died the same way, I see it coming. Some small quirking sounds from time to time, along with small hardly visible stuff. It's annoying because I can't really afford a new one right now. Hopefully it will last until my economy is in shape, but you never know.
My hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda, 250 Gb or so. My old one was a Seagate Barracuda as well, and I have one as a slave. Are these remarkably unreliable, or am I just unlucky? Or is there any other flaw in my system, like not enough cooling or something? I've had the computer for a little over two years, and if it breaks, it will be the second time my main drive fails me. It's bugging me.
What other options to Seagate are there, in case I need to buy something new?
 
seagates are noisy and grindy especially the 500gb that i just got when it was on sale for 139. maybe for your next drive you can buy a western digital.
 
well lol i've switched from westendigital to seagate cause i've had 2 westen digitals fri on me nothing i did wrong one day woke up turned on my comptuer doesnt work makes clicking nosies (use 2 run a seagate and a westen digital both 250g but now run 2 seagate 250g)
 
It's possible that you simply got drives that were part of a bad batch. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to get 2 at different times but there's always a chance.

If you don't want to go with seagate again, and I wouldn't blame you, many people stop using a brand if 1 drive fails on them, you can go with the already mentioned Western Digitial (I don't like them but many people do), Maxtor (seagate subbrand now), Samsung, Hitachi, and there's probably a couple others. I've had seagate drives for a good while now and they haven't failed yet.
 
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