WD 1.5TB external HD $99

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Cheesetogo

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The Dell drive you linked is actually an internal...

Also, external drives from Seagate and Western Digital only have 1 year warranties.
 

Thump553

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Seagate Black Armour's (at least) have five year warranties-just got one a few days ago.
 

Greg04

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The Dell drive you linked is actually an internal...

Also, external drives from Seagate and Western Digital only have 1 year warranties.

Oops on the internal, fixed. Re: the warranty, I use my amex for that - doubles the warranty. And, I usually sell my drives within 2 years to upgrade, so there is a trade off, but it works for me.
 

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Costco.com has the Seagate 1.5TB external for $80 + $5 shipping (probably available in store too). Shows up as $110 in the cart, but there's a $30 automatic discount when you checkout.
 

Greg04

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Costco.com has the Seagate 1.5TB external for $80 + $5 shipping (probably available in store too). Shows up as $110 in the cart, but there's a $30 automatic discount when you checkout.

Given that the reviews on newegg AND costco are very negative (compared to WD), why would anyone buy this drive? For the warranty? That you *will* need? If your data isn't valuable, by all means go against the odds and reviews.

My favorite from costco:
"Had this unit approx. 3 months when my computer would not recognize it and the light in front stopped coming on. Seagate offered to replace it for a $20 fee. That does not include any recovery. Probably should just take it back to Costco but could not find boxes, paperwork or receipt."
 

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Given that the reviews on newegg AND costco are very negative (compared to WD), why would anyone buy this drive? For the warranty? That you *will* need? If your data isn't valuable, by all means go against the odds and reviews.

My favorite from costco:
"Had this unit approx. 3 months when my computer would not recognize it and the light in front stopped coming on. Seagate offered to replace it for a $20 fee. That does not include any recovery. Probably should just take it back to Costco but could not find boxes, paperwork or receipt."


Claiming that you will need to use the warranty is BS.

if Seagate had a 100% failure rate, they would not even sell the drive.


Regardless of which brand you buy, you should have a backup if you think the data is important. I bought two Seagate 1.5 TB drives around when they came out in Dec/Jan. This was after reading about it have problems from lots of people. One was backup for another. I also bought the WD 6400AAKS which got a lot of good reviews. Two months ago, the WD start having problems, was replaced under warranty. My Seagate have had no problems since day one. There is a user on genmay with 10 of them purchased around when they came out and also no problem.

And in the clip from the costco review, he/she is likely talking about the Advanced Replacement fee. Not a fee for a regular warranty claim.
 

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Claiming that you will need to use the warranty is BS.

if Seagate had a 100% failure rate, they would not even sell the drive.


Regardless of which brand you buy, you should have a backup if you think the data is important. I bought two Seagate 1.5 TB drives around when they came out in Dec/Jan. This was after reading about it have problems from lots of people. One was backup for another. I also bought the WD 6400AAKS which got a lot of good reviews. Two months ago, the WD start having problems, was replaced under warranty. My Seagate have had no problems since day one. There is a user on genmay with 10 of them purchased around when they came out and also no problem.

And in the clip from the costco review, he/she is likely talking about the Advanced Replacement fee. Not a fee for a regular warranty claim.

i think you both should have a geek chainsaw deathmatch, seagate vs wd. i will be the jedi referee. great deal btw op:p
 

Greg04

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Claiming that you will need to use the warranty is BS.

if Seagate had a 100% failure rate, they would not even sell the drive.


Regardless of which brand you buy, you should have a backup if you think the data is important. I bought two Seagate 1.5 TB drives around when they came out in Dec/Jan. This was after reading about it have problems from lots of people. One was backup for another. I also bought the WD 6400AAKS which got a lot of good reviews. Two months ago, the WD start having problems, was replaced under warranty. My Seagate have had no problems since day one. There is a user on genmay with 10 of them purchased around when they came out and also no problem.

And in the clip from the costco review, he/she is likely talking about the Advanced Replacement fee. Not a fee for a regular warranty claim.


C'mon, Mr. Literal: I was simply saying that you are more likely to need the warranty given the reviews of the drives. I guess I should have placed a smiley there to show my sarcasm. But, when one drive gets so many bad reviews, and another does not, unless there's a vast conspiracy afoot to defame, there's a reliability issue with that model. No shame there, just avoid that model. When WD has the deathstar, I simply avoided it, I didn't trash the whole product line. And, your experience, like mine, is statistically irrelevant when looking at big numbers and likelihood of failure. That argument is the "my grandfather smoked a pack a day for 100 years therefore cigs must not be bad for you" routine.

Bottom line: The drive is evil and every single one will explode like a laptop battery. :)
 

Zap

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I should cancel my Dell order from a couple weeks ago for the same drive at the same price. They have yet to ship.
 

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Given that the reviews on newegg AND costco are very negative (compared to WD), why would anyone buy this drive? For the warranty? That you *will* need? If your data isn't valuable, by all means go against the odds and reviews.

My favorite from costco:
"Had this unit approx. 3 months when my computer would not recognize it and the light in front stopped coming on. Seagate offered to replace it for a $20 fee. That does not include any recovery. Probably should just take it back to Costco but could not find boxes, paperwork or receipt."

Seagate 1.5TB drives were horrible when they came out. To my knowledge, everything has been fixed with firmware updates. I bought one on that basis and found that my drive was one of the newer (fixed) ones that didn't need an update at all. It's been heavily used in a Media PC for a few months and is running like a champ.

For $80, I might be in for another.
 
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