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Choosing Hard Drives

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razorpit

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Looking to add a new master drive to my system. I have two Western Digital 250GB IDE drives that will be raided for back-ups. After doing some research I narrowed my selection to these two drives;

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hmx?&scriteria=AA45420

and

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...item-details.asp?EdpNo=2273393&CatId=0

The Seagate is currently about $40 more than the WD. I'm not as up on everything as I should be but is one drive clearly better than the other? I know Seagate is using some new technology in their drive but is it worth the $40 and will I notice the difference?

Thanks for your input,
--Dave
 
I would get the seagate without even thinking twice about it.
Its faster than any other comparable drive.

I would not however get it from tigerdirect. I would never, EVER shop there again. Horrible company imo.
 
Both Seagate and Western Digital are great hard drive companies. I am a Western Digital man myself on the internal stuff, Seagate on the external drives.
 
Originally posted by: mauiblue
Both Seagate and Western Digital are great hard drive companies. I am a Western Digital man myself on the internal stuff, Seagate on the external drives.
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The benchies are enough to get me to switch sides. I have had WD drives only since 4 years ago and it was a seagate scsi drive. WD has treated me great. However i just picked up a new 7200.10 thats due anyday now 😀.
 
Originally posted by: razorpit
Sorry every one I just wanted to bump this once to see if any one had any advice.

Thanks,
--Dave
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no need to be sorry for bumping...i don't know what the rate is over here but i know in the For Sale/Trade forum, you shouldn't bump more than once every 4 hours
 
Originally posted by: buck
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The benchies are enough to get me to switch sides. I have had WD drives only since 4 years ago and it was a seagate scsi drive. WD has treated me great. However i just picked up a new 7200.10 thats due anyday now 😀.
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I too have been a WD guy since about 97 and have had pretty good luck with them. Only one failure and WD was quick to send a refurbished drive. I like the technology Seagate is using in the .10 series and I'd like to try one out. I'm just having a hard time debating on whether the ~$40 is worth it. Please do me a favor and keep me updated on your new drive. By the way where did you order yours from?

Thanks,
--Dave
 
The wd is a very good drive, Seagate does lead in some benchmarks (as perpendicular recording is faster in some), but remember the Seagate is among the first drives with perpendicular recording so nobody knows what the failure rate will be, so you might be better off going with the western digital. Also if you don?t care about raiding this drive then you could go with the wd5000ks (ks instead of y) for even less, it does have a 3 year warranty vs. 5 (but are you really going to be using it as a major drive in 3 or 4 years or will you have a 1-1.5 tb drive as the main by then)?
 
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