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WD 1.5TB external HD $99

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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.
 
Cheesetogo said:
The Dell drive you linked is actually an internal...

Also, external drives from Seagate and Western Digital only have 1 year warranties.
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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.
 
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.
 
goog40 said:
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.
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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."
 
Greg04 said:
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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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.
 
edplayer said:
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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i think you both should have a geek chainsaw deathmatch, seagate vs wd. i will be the jedi referee. great deal btw op😛
 
edplayer said:
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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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. 🙂
 
I should cancel my Dell order from a couple weeks ago for the same drive at the same price. They have yet to ship.
 
Greg04 said:
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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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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