The failure rate on many Seagate drives is simply abominable, from 9.5% on certain 1.5TB drives to 23.5% on the old 7200.11 series, to a whopping 43.1% on the Seagate 7200.14 drive family of 3TB products. ... Many of Seagate's problems, however, appear to be in the 1.5TB to 3TB range. I have had the 3tb fail on me twice. DONT BUY SEAGATE BARRACUDA
Every single seagate drive i have been in contact with for the last 30 something years of building computers have failed prematurely.. So nowdays I never ever buy seagate products..
One up the sleeve customs - i won't buy Seagate Hard Drives any more. They don't stand behind their products at all. I have twice gone to them for warranty replacement only to have them say sorry were not covering that drive. I buy Western Digital or Samsung drives now. To hell with Seagate.
Greg Hakes 1.5 yrs left on 5 yr warrantee. Seagate says I DONT EXIST despite email on previous drive yrs ago. Website down "for maintenance " for A YEAR NOW, inc. email, support and document archives. Auto "serial checker" says drive not waranteed any more. FUCKING RIGHTS they can go to hell and be fire bombed for all i care, Seagate is a SHITTY RIPOFF MARKET😡
What I found was the shittiest tactic, is that they don't give you a new warranty with the 'replacement' drive and usually those are RMAed drives anyway. Your old warranty from the old drive, is all you get. So if you had 6 months left on the warranty, and you get it replaced, that 'new drive' will have a 6 month warranty. I just had this happen to one of my larger drives, and I am only lucky that it didn't have any of my important data on it... Firstly because it died exactly like this just a few hours ago, and Second, because Seagate mention when you are talking to them about 'backup drives' will make sure to rub it in your face that you should have backups in multiple areas... Even they know and accept that their drives are trash. I haven't even contemplated ringing the 'support' line yet, as I already know the outcome. I'm simply going to buy a better quality arrangement from an overall better company.
Definitely a head failure or the drive had become incorrectly magnetized. I have a barracuda 3000 and it died the same way last week destroying my raid array in my server :-( I would definitely consider HGST or Western Digital instead to replace your drives if I were you. Very few of those brand have failed me but I have lost a ton of Seagate drives in the past. I got like four of the cuda 3000s in March thinking Seagate probably improved by now but was mistaken they still fail.
Did u find out OFFICIALLY was the prob? Have 2Tb Seagate Barra drive making same sound, seen many vids show same prob, NONE show solution or $ to make work again, or if recovery was 100% Seems like fkn Seagate made prob, seems like should be able to be temp fixed/recovered easily 😡
I have already had two ST1500341AS failing (11 clicks) and now I have a ST3000DM01 (like yours) being busy and unresponsive. I can get it into diagnostic but no PC3000 to recover data. Never ever had any issue with HGST and Toshiba's are doing fine too. Best HD ever had was a WD 500AAAKS that outlasted 3 generations of other Hdd. I will not reconsider Seagate ever - except for enterprise grade drives.
I totally agree! I bought Seagate for decades and their drives just suck now. the kicker was when a 8TB started clicking like all the others I have it finally stop showing up on the system. Seagate sent me a DOA refurbished drive. I sent it back with a letter and they never replied. the hell with them, I have sold off the Seagates I have and now give my business to WD.
These drives are a disaster waiting to happen. The ST2000DM001 (2TB) and ST3000DM001 (3TB) are very unreliable drives due to countless problems with the heads, and even firmware. I had a ST2000DM001 from 2014 and it didn't last 5 years, I even have a video of that drive doing something similar to yours. These drives all fail the same way! While my IBM Deskstar DTLA-307015 15GB drive from August 2000 is still working!
@@ironic8340 Ironic how it outlasted the Seagate Barracuda isn't it haha. My luck is like the opposite of most people the stuff that should work doesn't and the stuff that shouldn't work does lol. If you took a look at my channel, I have multiple working Deskstar drives from IBM and Hitachi. Of course the Hitachi one's are expected to work, but the IBM one's probably not, but they have given me no problems from my experience with them. Even more ironic that they outlasted a lot of Western Digital drives like what the heck, I might as well intentionally buy the bad models and I have been lmao.
All hard drives and SSD's are meant to eventually fail as they only have a limited life. In my personal opinion, a good mechanical HDD should last 7 years maybe longer dependant on size, manufacturing etc. They can last longer than that of course but you can't expect them not to fail especially if you're continuously writing and reading them. I was watching some documentary on HDDs that said they are proven to fail so often under so many conditions and they had different percentages of people that reported their failures and also they used the manufactures data to obtain a time-line of how often you should expect to replace your HDD or SSD's. It's insane how most companies brag usability and lasting units with the utmost confidence knowing that certain ones are failing more frequently. It's not only failures caused by the manufacturer or consumer, sometimes they just fail. Since the dawn of the HDDs creation we continue to look to the future of hard drives for more reliable and longer lasting data storage and management. Hopefully technology advances to the point that we get way more time for our dollar but as of right now it is what it is.
Racine YoUtube seagate is shit just like those ibm Death Stars. These drives failed left and right some taking the data with it. These were the worst drives seagate has ever made.
3 seagate drives broke in just 2 months. wtf is happening to seagate. the latest that i bought is 3tb skyhawk made in thailand but broke in just 1month of usage but luckily seagate rma'ed it. and then followed by my 5 year old 1Terabyte st******542as which is out of warranty so its junk now. and then the latest is my 6years old same 1terabyte st******542as also. all these 3 drives in just a span of 2months. im switching to other brands from now on
I had this problem while my laptop was still running. I'm not a fan of cloud storage like onedrive as it just felt so intrusive. Windows hung on me and now I don't have a HDD. Still have my SSD backup, but that only runs Linux. Already behind on schoolwork, now I'm going to be even more behind. Thanks, Seagate -_-
5:48 bottom left on the metal plate, is it a photoresistor? Can it be a security? If the disc is open this resistor react and it's not possible to boot the disc (even if we close the case)?
I opened mine up out of curiosity (it had issues for at least a year and finally died last autumn). Had 3 rings on both the inner and outer edges of the platter. Very interesting.
Yes but what was peculiar is that each end had a set of three fine concentric circles with a couple mm between them. The rest of it was perfectly clean. Well as some others here have said, I was highly recommended WD drives. Black series if possible. Or the Red if for backups.
head failure. Those were known for that. the heads just up and die leaving you with a dead hard drive. tons of the 3tb;'s and lower did that. Seagate has gone to shit lately.
Christopher Ryan can we able to recover the files by transferring the platters from the head failure hard disk to new hard disk with same specifications ??? Last week I got this prob and struggling through that
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms HGST if you want to keep your data safe. WD took over the storage part from hitachi and it seems quality of HGST isn't up to par to what it was before but still waaaaayyyyy better as Seagate or WD blue drives. You get what you pay for !
My Asus lappy 2012 model with Seagate HDD 500GB still working fine but 2014 model Samsung 2TB desktop drive failed Raw data Reading🤔 Samsung drives are very bad
what are you guys saying i have a seagate 500 gb hard drive for 5 years and it is still working like its brand new any hard drive can fail and there can be many reasons for it!!!!
I’m finding this more and more, I think seagate does this on purpose... or hard to find out this is the main problem with their drives and they internally hid this info.. mine works perfectly but because the PCB is done it won’t read the data
My Seagate hdd made the loudest grinding noise ever, I think the motor isn’t lubricated well enough but Idk if I’m gonna replace it since it stopped when I put my computer to sleep and woke it up again
Mine doesn't work either. It was working in a external case but suddenly one day it dont go ON. Have anybody the same problem and solved it? Don't know if there is only a power problem or complete damage.
I have an 8 TB Seagate Baracuda winch First was supersoon and the temp went to More than 70°C Someone told me that the hight heat damaged the heads so they can not read the disk anymore. So keeping the temperature low is a must for a long life of your disk. Never keep data on One disk Make another backup disk with all your important files. All disks will crash after Some time . Luckely mine had not all important data on it. Another Thing is that you disconnect it from computer en power when not in use and not leave them always Powered on for a long life.
One Up The Sleeve Customs: if you have Seagate, stick with that. If you want to save your data, you gotta get it functional enough to clone it. I haven’t checked out all the available resources for donor PCB boards yet. Some videos I’ve watched recommended eBay, but I’m a little leery of that. It is said if you find the right company, you send the old board, they will swap the chips and send you a function replacement. It’s quite specific. You can’t just order a replacement part, drop it in and ride off into the sunset. The board has a number, vital to this restoration process. Once it’s up and running, cloning your drive onto a new unit is highly recommended, if you plan to keep your computer or obtain a new one. These things suffer from built-in obsolescence. I got nearly 10 years out of this one. I was fortunate. You’re on the right track. Don’t spend over $1k on data recovery if you don’t have to. There are many well produced, highly informative videos, here on TH-cam, which will guide you.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms yip, anything other than booting up windows and it starts smoking out. It got that hot my gpu cable that was touching it melted and burnt
this sucks man i have a 1TB seagate drive that is about to fail its on its last legs some times when i start up my pc it sounds like a leaf blower and i keep hearing a constant clicking noise i had a look at some reviews and everyone seems to agree that seagate drives are unreliable
+david golden yeah it sucks im looking at buyong a 8tb drive but yet to do research on who has the best reliability because data loss means video loss means revinue loss to me i have about 800gig of video just backed up before it gets edited and i cant afford to lose it as it takes so long to film major projects im up to atm. Thanks for watching mate
Remember the backblaze incidient ? They had these exact drives and they were the worst. Lots of them failed. These were the worst drives seagate ever made
Hello, I would like to analyze the fault on this non-functional Hdd th-cam.com/video/9gBILnvi8Rk/w-d-xo.html if it is a malfunction of the read/write heads or some electronic part. The error occurred during Windows installation when it formatted the entire disk instead of the specified partition. The Hdd cannot be initialized or formatted in the computer, nor can Minitool Partition repair it. Thank you in advance for the advice.
Thanks for your video, saved me attempting to open mine, as I was experiencing the same sounds out of the drive upon boot up. I have the same issue with 2x Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB Is it definitely a reading head issue, Can the heads be replaced..? Can anything be done to retrieve the data..? Is there a DIY method..? many thanks
Heads fallen out of sync. Easy for these drives and that means every Hard Drive on the market today. The tolerances between the heads and the plater are in the millionths of a millimetre. The yellow plastic parking protector works great while the drive is off and being transported to save the drive when you first buy it and it is shipped to you but as the drive cycles power on and off it heads back to it's resting point in the plastic comb but it tends to spread the metal head and therefore puts the gap between the plater and the head out of alignment. After that it cant read one or more plater faces and gives up trying. Maxtor drives were the best drives money could buy, many Maxtor drives are still running to this day for those that are still around that is. I have a Maxtor in my system to run windows on the rare occasion that i do, it is not the fastest drive but still going with no bad sectors and it is over 7 years old and run daily.
Fireicer Cooper I have a WD in my Pc (I think it is a WD blue) 160GB and it is still running with no failure so far for over 11 years! They don't make them the same way they used to.
YEP! 2016..... Still worth replying too 😁 I'm sure these have been mentioned, but.. Things to try in order depending on value of your data or curiosity. 1. Plug that drive into another pc (directly), as a 2nd drive. Not through a USB converter. Pretty easy to do, compared to other options. I would even try a 3rd pc to be positive. 2. If "1" was successful, grab any needed files while you can then chuck the drive afterwards since it was opened outside of a Class I clean room. It's 💩 😭 3. If that didn't work, remove the HD board and locate any contact/connections between the board & drive and clean with a eraser. The boards communication with it's hardware is of paramount importance as you might imagine. Most drives arn't hardwired and use these touchy feely connections. Carefully reassemble and retry from 1. 4. One of the last Big Kahuna moves.... Locate a identical model & revision HD "controller card", located on the bottom. Will probably be easier to have the firmware transferred from yours to a known good board. Finding the IDENTICAL Revision FIRMWARE (built-in software ver) may be problematic. It needs to be exact. Live long & prosper 🖖 SoCALIF🇺🇸
hm ,,, i change the PCB board & head then its work again,, then i transfer my all data ,,,, segate very bad hdd ,,, buy WD GOLD 10TB its fast lifetime working ,,,
I have a 2TB Seagate that died the other day. I heard a sort of chirping/clicking sound (at first I thought it was some kind of animal outside), then I heard a loud 'CLACK', and that was the end of it. What sucks is I bought this drive 2 years ago, and the warranty just expired in February 2018.
I just built my first gaming pc with a wd 480gb ssd and a Seagate barracuda hdd 2tb 7200 rpm. Gotta tell you that, once the system recognized the hdd, It started to make strange noises like a cicada, but at first i did nothing because i thought it was a normal kind thing. Do you really want to know how much the cicada survived? Just 10 days, then I lost "for good luck" a little bit of data because this is a new PC. I will never ever again buy something related to Seagate.
Not really right there is actually dust collector on corner guess for what for dust lol. They even restore data open up move needle down and close if you can see dust use that colector on corner. even so its for make it work get data frow it away
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The failure rate on many Seagate drives is simply abominable, from 9.5% on certain 1.5TB drives to 23.5% on the old 7200.11 series, to a whopping 43.1% on the Seagate 7200.14 drive family of 3TB products. ... Many of Seagate's problems, however, appear to be in the 1.5TB to 3TB range. I have had the 3tb fail on me twice. DONT BUY SEAGATE BARRACUDA
Every single seagate drive i have been in contact with for the last 30 something years of building computers have failed prematurely.. So nowdays I never ever buy seagate products..
seen a guy on video take a replace the board something about corupt firmware
Wow thats dedication hey
One up the sleeve customs - i won't buy Seagate Hard Drives any more. They don't stand behind their products at all. I have twice gone to them for warranty replacement only to have them say sorry were not covering that drive. I buy Western Digital or Samsung drives now. To hell with Seagate.
+Greg Hakes couldn't agree more
Greg Hakes 1.5 yrs left on 5 yr warrantee. Seagate says I DONT EXIST despite email on previous drive yrs ago. Website down "for maintenance " for A YEAR NOW, inc. email, support and document archives. Auto "serial checker" says drive not waranteed any more. FUCKING RIGHTS they can go to hell and be fire bombed for all i care, Seagate is a SHITTY RIPOFF MARKET😡
What I found was the shittiest tactic, is that they don't give you a new warranty with the 'replacement' drive and usually those are RMAed drives anyway. Your old warranty from the old drive, is all you get. So if you had 6 months left on the warranty, and you get it replaced, that 'new drive' will have a 6 month warranty.
I just had this happen to one of my larger drives, and I am only lucky that it didn't have any of my important data on it... Firstly because it died exactly like this just a few hours ago, and Second, because Seagate mention when you are talking to them about 'backup drives' will make sure to rub it in your face that you should have backups in multiple areas...
Even they know and accept that their drives are trash. I haven't even contemplated ringing the 'support' line yet, as I already know the outcome. I'm simply going to buy a better quality arrangement from an overall better company.
Western digital also so many broken ones all over the world...
Are Wd any better?
Definitely a head failure or the drive had become incorrectly magnetized. I have a barracuda 3000 and it died the same way last week destroying my raid array in my server :-( I would definitely consider HGST or Western Digital instead to replace your drives if I were you. Very few of those brand have failed me but I have lost a ton of Seagate drives in the past. I got like four of the cuda 3000s in March thinking Seagate probably improved by now but was mistaken they still fail.
Seantronik2017 Bionik2017 thanks mate yeah unfortunate isnt it
Did u find out OFFICIALLY was the prob? Have 2Tb Seagate Barra drive making same sound, seen many vids show same prob, NONE show solution or $ to make work again, or if recovery was 100% Seems like fkn Seagate made prob, seems like should be able to be temp fixed/recovered easily 😡
+Brd Schr no sorry threw it in my ever-growing pile of dead electronics does no one make good gear anymore
I have already had two ST1500341AS failing (11 clicks) and now I have a ST3000DM01 (like yours) being busy and unresponsive. I can get it into diagnostic but no PC3000 to recover data. Never ever had any issue with HGST and Toshiba's are doing fine too. Best HD ever had was a WD 500AAAKS that outlasted 3 generations of other Hdd. I will not reconsider Seagate ever - except for enterprise grade drives.
Exactly my problem
I totally agree! I bought Seagate for decades and their drives just suck now. the kicker was when a 8TB started clicking like all the others I have it finally stop showing up on the system. Seagate sent me a DOA refurbished drive. I sent it back with a letter and they never replied. the hell with them, I have sold off the Seagates I have and now give my business to WD.
Seems like the general consensus
Just had this happen to my first HDD. It's a 2tb Seagate barracuda that I only had installed for a little bit over a year. No warnings. I'm devastated
These drives are a disaster waiting to happen. The ST2000DM001 (2TB) and ST3000DM001 (3TB) are very unreliable drives due to countless problems with the heads, and even firmware. I had a ST2000DM001 from 2014 and it didn't last 5 years, I even have a video of that drive doing something similar to yours. These drives all fail the same way! While my IBM Deskstar DTLA-307015 15GB drive from August 2000 is still working!
YOU GOT A WORKING DESKSTAR WORKING FOR THAT MANY YEARS? DAMN
@@ironic8340 Ironic how it outlasted the Seagate Barracuda isn't it haha. My luck is like the opposite of most people the stuff that should work doesn't and the stuff that shouldn't work does lol. If you took a look at my channel, I have multiple working Deskstar drives from IBM and Hitachi. Of course the Hitachi one's are expected to work, but the IBM one's probably not, but they have given me no problems from my experience with them. Even more ironic that they outlasted a lot of Western Digital drives like what the heck, I might as well intentionally buy the bad models and I have been lmao.
The sound of seagate. No warning. Works, then turn your pc off, then restart, and clicking. Previous Diskinfo showed no warnings.
All hard drives and SSD's are meant to eventually fail as they only have a limited life. In my personal opinion, a good mechanical HDD should last 7 years maybe longer dependant on size, manufacturing etc. They can last longer than that of course but you can't expect them not to fail especially if you're continuously writing and reading them.
I was watching some documentary on HDDs that said they are proven to fail so often under so many conditions and they had different percentages of people that reported their failures and also they used the manufactures data to obtain a time-line of how often you should expect to replace your HDD or SSD's. It's insane how most companies brag usability and lasting units with the utmost confidence knowing that certain ones are failing more frequently. It's not only failures caused by the manufacturer or consumer, sometimes they just fail.
Since the dawn of the HDDs creation we continue to look to the future of hard drives for more reliable and longer lasting data storage and management.
Hopefully technology advances to the point that we get way more time for our dollar but as of right now it is what it is.
Hopefully they keep getting better into the future
Racine YoUtube seagate is shit just like those ibm Death Stars. These drives failed left and right some taking the data with it. These were the worst drives seagate has ever made.
Good, long lasting HDDs are more expensive than normal consumer is willing to pay. There is the main problem.
купите Seagate 1Tb получите подарок отвал диска
этот диск барахло мусор система вместе с ним зависает
I have the same problem
+MojangYang YAN0014 yeah i won't be buying a sea gate again
3 seagate drives broke in just 2 months. wtf is happening to seagate. the latest that i bought is 3tb skyhawk made in thailand but broke in just 1month of usage but luckily seagate rma'ed it. and then followed by my 5 year old 1Terabyte st******542as which is out of warranty so its junk now. and then the latest is my 6years old same 1terabyte st******542as also. all these 3 drives in just a span of 2months. im switching to other brands from now on
Sounds like alot of dramas with seagate drives
I had this problem while my laptop was still running. I'm not a fan of cloud storage like onedrive as it just felt so intrusive. Windows hung on me and now I don't have a HDD. Still have my SSD backup, but that only runs Linux. Already behind on schoolwork, now I'm going to be even more behind. Thanks, Seagate -_-
5:48 bottom left on the metal plate, is it a photoresistor? Can it be a security? If the disc is open this resistor react and it's not possible to boot the disc (even if we close the case)?
I opened mine up out of curiosity (it had issues for at least a year and finally died last autumn). Had 3 rings on both the inner and outer edges of the platter. Very interesting.
+yurisuika like were it was rubbing
Yes but what was peculiar is that each end had a set of three fine concentric circles with a couple mm between them. The rest of it was perfectly clean.
Well as some others here have said, I was highly recommended WD drives. Black series if possible. Or the Red if for backups.
+yurisuika yeah i plan on building myself a nas for all my editing ect so i have some backups as im worried ill lost so many hours work
yurisuika very common with these drives. Head crashes and bad sectors and some drives grind all the data off the platters from the failing heads.
head failure. Those were known for that. the heads just up and die leaving you with a dead hard drive. tons of the 3tb;'s and lower did that. Seagate has gone to shit lately.
+Christopher Ryan cheers mate
+Christopher Ryan got a brand you would recommend?
western digital always been good to me
Christopher Ryan can we able to recover the files by transferring the platters from the head failure hard disk to new hard disk with same specifications ??? Last week I got this prob and struggling through that
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms HGST if you want to keep your data safe. WD took over the storage part from hitachi and it seems quality of HGST isn't up to par to what it was before but still waaaaayyyyy better as Seagate or WD blue drives. You get what you pay for !
My Asus lappy 2012 model with Seagate HDD 500GB still working fine but 2014 model Samsung 2TB desktop drive failed Raw data Reading🤔 Samsung drives are very bad
Low quality
These are shit and Fail left and right. The worst drive seagate ever made. I stick with wd
No wonder I couldn't get mine open! I didn't count on that covered screw! Thanks!
They will get you every time
I have a clicking seagate hard drive they suck I only buy wd or hitachi drives now.
Yeah ive got 3 tb wd drives now
I WANT IBM CARDS BACK!!!!!! You kids don't have a clue what I'm talkin bout...
Ok boomer
Mint
what are you guys saying i have a seagate 500 gb hard drive for 5 years and it is still working like its brand new any hard drive can fail and there can be many reasons for it!!!!
Wonder why mine failed
my hdd won't start reading with the lid open. the head is just scratching the platter and not moving at all
Mine is 3TB AND ITS SPOILT
Your PCB board is bad and needs to be replaced
I’m finding this more and more, I think seagate does this on purpose... or hard to find out this is the main problem with their drives and they internally hid this info.. mine works perfectly but because the PCB is done it won’t read the data
LANISHA BARNES I need to get one and transfer the data over once I fix the one I have. Went out last week 6tb ☹️
it clicks because of a degraded/failed drive head. it cannot read the the drive, and clicks.
Ah ok thanks
Is this common, or? Had my 2TB for 4 and a half years, so I am just constantly worried about it deciding to stop working.
look through the videos comments mate it seems to be way to comman
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Well, I seem to be lucky then.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms I've had 4 of these fail 3, 3TB's and 1 2 TB. Total pieces of shit.
I have the same issue with a barracuda 2 tb.
Antonio Pires lots of people have had the same issue
Antonio pires I have the same issue
same here .. don't know what to do
Ditto
Sounds like they fail alot
My Seagate hdd made the loudest grinding noise ever, I think the motor isn’t lubricated well enough but Idk if I’m gonna replace it since it stopped when I put my computer to sleep and woke it up again
Not may people have had good thingd to say about them
Was this the 5400 or 7200 rpm version? 7200 may be more likely to fail. I may go with western digital and I only need 5400 rpm.
7200 from memory mate
The Hard! Drive! Garbage!
It sure was
Mine doesn't work either. It was working in a external case but suddenly one day it dont go ON. Have anybody the same problem and solved it? Don't know if there is only a power problem or complete damage.
I just bought one of these at a yard sale. 3 dollars. Same problem. Oh well, no big monetary loss.lol
Sounds like a comman issue mate
I have an 8 TB Seagate Baracuda winch First was supersoon and the temp went to More than 70°C
Someone told me that the hight heat damaged the heads so they can not read the disk anymore.
So keeping the temperature low is a must for a long life of your disk.
Never keep data on One disk Make another backup disk with all your important files.
All disks will crash after Some time .
Luckely mine had not all important data on it.
Another Thing is that you disconnect it from computer en power when not in use and not leave them always Powered on for a long life.
How long did the other working drive last after opening it? I want to know before I attempt to open mine
No idea on up time sorry
I have this exact same problem on my seagate barracuda 3gb ST3000DM001
Hope you didn't loose to much important data
Logic circuit is compromised, Obtain a matching donor PCB board and swap the BIOS chip.
Thanks for info mate
One Up The Sleeve Customs: I’m in the process of dealing with this, myself.
That’s what I’ve learned, so far.
Good luck!
@@kenskorepa5353 what's the best brand of drive to buy
One Up The Sleeve Customs: if you have Seagate, stick with that.
If you want to save your data, you gotta get it functional enough to clone it. I haven’t checked out all the available resources for donor PCB boards yet. Some videos I’ve watched recommended eBay, but I’m a little leery of that. It is said if you find the right company, you send the old board, they will swap the chips and send you a function replacement. It’s quite specific. You can’t just order a replacement part, drop it in and ride off into the sunset. The board has a number, vital to this restoration process. Once it’s up and running, cloning your drive onto a new unit is highly recommended, if you plan to keep your computer or obtain a new one.
These things suffer from built-in obsolescence. I got nearly 10 years out of this one. I was fortunate.
You’re on the right track. Don’t spend over $1k on data recovery if you don’t have to. There are many well produced, highly informative videos, here on TH-cam, which will guide you.
Has the donor fixed the issue?
This might be what happened to me... on my main hard drive... with windows 10 on it...
Yeah sounds like it has happened alot
Have a seagate 3TB that has caught on fire, almost like it installed shit everywhere randomly and heated up trying to read everything at once.
It caught fire !!!!!? Really
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms yip, anything other than booting up windows and it starts smoking out. It got that hot my gpu cable that was touching it melted and burnt
Thats crazy never seen one get so hot !!
Raamie DarkThorn pcb failure probably
this sucks man i have a 1TB seagate drive that is about to fail its on its last legs some times when i start up my pc it sounds like a leaf blower and i keep hearing a constant clicking noise i had a look at some reviews and everyone seems to agree that seagate drives are unreliable
+david golden yeah it sucks im looking at buyong a 8tb drive but yet to do research on who has the best reliability because data loss means video loss means revinue loss to me i have about 800gig of video just backed up before it gets edited and i cant afford to lose it as it takes so long to film major projects im up to atm. Thanks for watching mate
Remember the backblaze incidient ? They had these exact drives and they were the worst. Lots of them failed. These were the worst drives seagate ever made
This old version
Id say so i brought it a long while ago
Which another Hard drive equivalent to Seagate Barracuda 300GB is equivalent or better? Or can we replace it with a faster 1TB SD drive ??
Almost any other hard drive manufacturer is better than Seagate. I would go with Western Digital.
I got a 2TG hard drive for $5000
How big?
Sorry my phone! TH-cam error!
just happened to me in a brand new HDD 2TB. Sad :(
Buy a wd
@@shannonharvey8300 Trash
Are they?
Same
Sucks hey
Hello, I would like to analyze the fault on this non-functional Hdd th-cam.com/video/9gBILnvi8Rk/w-d-xo.html if it is a malfunction of the read/write heads or some electronic part.
The error occurred during Windows installation when it formatted the entire disk instead of the specified partition.
The Hdd cannot be initialized or formatted in the computer, nor can Minitool Partition repair it. Thank you in advance for the advice.
Either bad sectors or head defective
Bad head it recon
swap the head
Is it the head or the board controlling the head
Thanks for your video, saved me attempting to open mine, as I was experiencing the same sounds out of the drive upon boot up.
I have the same issue with 2x Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB
Is it definitely a reading head issue, Can the heads be replaced..?
Can anything be done to retrieve the data..?
Is there a DIY method..?
many thanks
+Adriano Sydney im sure they could he recovered by a professional but thats not me sorry. It apears im not the only one whos had issues
I have exactly the same issue
Heads issue which is what a lot of these drives had.
No one has said anything nice about them
Same problem here if some one has the idea plz help us
here's the solution don't buy seagate ever again
I have the same problem, any work around to recover the data?
Swap pcb out with a working one from what the comment section has told us
i have the same as the end of your videobut it not appeare on pc my seagate barracuda 4 tb
Lesson #1 never buy a Seagate, lesson #2 never open a hard drive.
Well if you failed #1 and bought one, you may aswell do #2 as the data aint never coming back.
Yeah she was already dead nothing super critical or I would have sent it for data recovery
Do you loose the data by opening it up?
Yes they are ment to stay sealed
thanks
No worries. A good shop may be able to data recovery it for you
Same issue!
hope you didnt loose to much data
FWW I havw two Seagate HDDs a terra each, and have had them for years, and no probs at all
Still going string
Strong
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Then you know how to use them correctly.
I know how to use them? Or William does?
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Oops I mean William does. I'm tired lol.
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One up the sleeve customs seagate barracudas don't seem to be very reliable...
+Silas McGee yeah this ones well dead
One up the sleeve customs however knowing me I like electronics vehicles and computers that show a high level of unreliability and failure rates
One up the sleeve customs hard drives included
My friend has that won
Heads fallen out of sync. Easy for these drives and that means every Hard Drive on the market today. The tolerances between the heads and the plater are in the millionths of a millimetre.
The yellow plastic parking protector works great while the drive is off and being transported to save the drive when you first buy it and it is shipped to you but as the drive cycles power on and off it heads back to it's resting point in the plastic comb but it tends to spread the metal head and therefore puts the gap between the plater and the head out of alignment.
After that it cant read one or more plater faces and gives up trying.
Maxtor drives were the best drives money could buy, many Maxtor drives are still running to this day for those that are still around that is. I have a Maxtor in my system to run windows on the rare occasion that i do, it is not the fastest drive but still going with no bad sectors and it is over 7 years old and run daily.
+Fireicer Cooper thanks for all the info mate cheers
Fireicer Cooper I have a WD in my Pc (I think it is a WD blue) 160GB and it is still running with no failure so far for over 11 years! They don't make them the same way they used to.
ive had Maxtor hard drives fail on me in the past had them fail upon right after they are bought I hook em up and go into cmos to configure them
+bjohn3421 brand new ones
I have one Maxtor hdd and it's 10 years old :D it shows some smart failures (2600 bad sectors) but still running
YEP! 2016..... Still worth replying too 😁
I'm sure these have been mentioned, but..
Things to try in order depending on value of your data or curiosity.
1. Plug that drive into another pc (directly), as a 2nd drive. Not through a USB converter. Pretty easy to do, compared to other options. I would even try a 3rd pc to be positive.
2. If "1" was successful, grab any needed files while you can then chuck the drive afterwards since it was opened outside of a Class I clean room. It's 💩 😭
3. If that didn't work, remove the HD board and locate any contact/connections between the board & drive and clean with a eraser. The boards communication with it's hardware is of paramount importance as you might imagine. Most drives arn't hardwired and use these touchy feely connections. Carefully reassemble and retry from 1.
4. One of the last Big Kahuna moves.... Locate a identical model & revision HD "controller card", located on the bottom. Will probably be easier to have the firmware transferred from yours to a known good board. Finding the IDENTICAL Revision FIRMWARE (built-in software ver) may be problematic. It needs to be exact.
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Thanks heaps for the info mate if I make another video ill share it on also
change HDD HEAD
+8BitBoy 8BitBoy threw it out unfortunately
hm ,,, i change the PCB board & head then its work again,, then i transfer my all data ,,,, segate very bad hdd ,,, buy WD GOLD 10TB its fast lifetime working ,,,
Hi 8BitBoy. Once you swapped the heads and PCB did it mount? Could you back up the data at the point? Thank you!
8BitBoy 8BitBoy haha there is no hdd in the world that will work for life time
I have a 2TB Seagate that died the other day. I heard a sort of chirping/clicking sound (at first I thought it was some kind of animal outside), then I heard a loud 'CLACK', and that was the end of it. What sucks is I bought this drive 2 years ago, and the warranty just expired in February 2018.
Oh that wasnt far out of warrenty
I know this video was a while back but it is usually the circuit board. If you've an identical one you could swap it ! I did and it worked !
Oh dam I am keen to buy a nas
How? I have read you need also to swap the bios because of the custom hard disk "servo" data in it? Did you just swap the pcb?
Hey! Sound! Just like! Hp my computer
Did it do the same
Yeah
I got brand new laptops
I just built my first gaming pc with a wd 480gb ssd and a Seagate barracuda hdd 2tb 7200 rpm.
Gotta tell you that, once the system recognized the hdd, It started to make strange noises like a cicada, but at first i did nothing because i thought it was a normal kind thing.
Do you really want to know how much the cicada survived? Just 10 days, then I lost "for good luck" a little bit of data because this is a new PC.
I will never ever again buy something related to Seagate.
Hearing some bad things about them all
You open it, theres now dust on the disc. The data can't be read now
Was already dead
Not really right there is actually dust collector on corner guess for what for dust lol. They even restore data open up move needle down and close if you can see dust use that colector on corner. even so its for make it work get data frow it away
Been testing two of these, looks like the electronics are faulty plus no partition table. Would not let me read a new one.