AMD Rig.

Hard drives will power down after 20 mins (default setting) of inactivity. So no idea how you went through so many Hard Drives.

 

In the time period I was referring to I was probably more of a power user than I am today. I ran 3 part time businesses off of my then 4 computers
and I was actively engaged in building computers for sale. I actually built and sold more pcs before I had the business I do today as I was selling them on eBay
as fast as I built them but today that would be so difficult as the buyers are more tight with spending and ebay has become a buyer's market which was not true then.
The rules were easier then but then eBay eliminated personal checks and money orders, that pretty much took half the responsible buyers away from eBay, and added a whole pile of deadbeats, all to push Paypal, a division that they recently spun off anyway admitting failure in running it. What a waste. Today the toughest thing to do on eBay is not sell the product, you can do that all day long. The toughest thing is to collect from the "buyer". My computers were seldom off because I was always on at least one. My backups had backups because with Windows 98 you truly never could have enough image files and file and data backups. A mosquito trapped inside tower would be enough to require a new install!

Now in all fairness I am talking about days when Ide hard drives were king. When sata drives first came out they were incredibly unstable but I think over the long haul they have proven way more user worthy as well.

 

OK Now I see why you were having those HHD problems Rich! You're talking about the time just before Jesus was born.LMAO
Dang I knew you were old; but man, didn't realize you went back that far. LMAO

 

Well now you have Dougie. I can have a unique label! Remember the old way most of my hard drives lasted a year
and I never sent them back for replacement because if they lasted one year new, I figured refurbish would last 6 months
and that was a waste of my time. Since I changed my ways I have never lost a hard drive and many of the ones I was using the day I changed are still working as backup hard drives in other computers. You think that means nothing?

 

That wasn't me Rich. Donateo said that.
I never had those issues with IDE Drives. They lasted a long time for me.
I wouldn't be blaming the drives.

 

I have done both. Left them on and also shut them down each night, all with Western Digital, Seagate (old Maxtor), Hitachi (IBM), and only had one go bad, although I never kept one past a year because as much as I previously built I would sell even the ones I was using after a year or two

 

We all have an odd failure of hardware no matter what brand.
Now and again one will get a lemon.
I had a Gigabyte Z97X gaming 7 mobo D.O.A.
In the latest build I used a Gigabyte Z170X - Gaming 7 board.
Because I have a failure in a brand hardware doesn't mean they are all bad.
I had one WD Spinner fail but I still buy WD Black for storage.
Having an odd fail of anything is normal but not on the scale I have been reading in these posts.

 

I very rarely have a fail of anything. The latest was not expected it was a Zotac GTX 980, but I got that taken care of. Brands come and go, but the user expertise and knowhow is omnipresent. Before the Zotac failure my last failure was a Corsair CX 500w for a client. I replaced it with a thermaltake 650W which was fine, and RMA for the CX500 was also fine it worked as tested.

 

I agree and I am not talking about a single failure either but one thing I have to also agree with IceMan on and I really did forget this is I mostly do as he does today and seldom keep a pc
much over a year. It's "feast or famine" on the sales end and at times I am sitting with a few pcs and other times I wind up selling them my own because I have nothing else built at the time.
My drive failures were mostly Samsung with some Seagates and an Hitachi. I have never lost a WD myself or for a client but I have replaced quite a few I felt needed replacing.
I have also replaced every Cooler Master psu I sold and all Corsair CX (Builder Series) I ever sold way early as well. The Cooler Master RMA was so difficult on the first one I just began throwing them out as who wants a refurbished bad psu anyway? IN the past I had a large number of Asus boards to RMA and about 6-10 Gigabytes all around Nvidia chipsets as I remember. The only recent motherboard issues have seen were Gigabytes needing bios updates to accept Intel Cpus and some for Usb 3.0 bios update issues fixed, I felt could have been noted on the boxes of these new.

 

Asus boards were notorious for being extremely picky with memory, and the total loss of onboard audio. I think for the most part, and especially on the higher end models they have fixed most of those issues. Concerning hard drives either IDE or SATA I usually went with Seagate it was about a 60/30/10 mix. 60% being Seagate, 40% being WD, and of course Samsung in there too. I hear you about the Coolermaster PSU RMA circus been through that myself as well. I don't use them anymore in builds.