A few weeks ago, I vented a little about some failing hard drives that I have had trouble with lately, namely Seagate's 1.5TB hard drives. Over there, I showed a screenshot of my personal 7200.11 drive that was failing. I sent that drive off almost exactly 1 month ago, and received the replacement about a week later. I quickly threw the drive into my new Phenom II HTPC build. For the record, the drive was in a Lian-Li PC-A05B's drive bay, completely alone so as to maximize the cooling ability of the case, and hopefully keep that drive alive a little longer. Today I am copying the data again from a failing 7200.11 over to a Western Digital drive, this time a 1TB Black Edition drive, and preparing to send off another drive.

I will commend Seagate's support service this time around. They were much more courteous than the last time I called, and even picked up the $9 or so shipping cost. I also asked them to tell me if they can find anything to explain this really disturbing trend in drive failures. I'll report back when I hear something.