The Dell drive you linked is actually an internal...
Also, external drives from Seagate and Western Digital only have 1 year warranties.
Seagate Black Armour's (at least) have five year warranties-just got one a few days ago.
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."
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.
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.
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."
