Western Digital or Seagate?

[zayened]

i want to buy a few hdd's. should i get WD's SE line or Seagate's Baracudda IV line of hdd's?

(sorry for posting in 2 different forums but i get more viewers and voters that way )

 

[jonnyGURU]

Maxtor.

 

[zayened]

<< Maxtor.

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i don't swing that way

 

[yoda291]

Both are good drives. I have heard it said, however, that western digital is a faster drive, while the seagate is better for server side implementations. But it's kinda like comparing a lamborghini to a ferrari, both are plenty for whatever you may need to do. Oddly enough, I have a WD in an x-server I run and a seagate in my impromptu desktop machine.

 

[shiner]

Seagate by a LOOOOOOOOONG way! May be a tad bit slower but they are much more reliable

 

[Instagib]

Seagate

 

[Geekbabe]

Seagate !

 

[hooj]

seagate

 

[jkoXP]

IBM!

 

[zayened]

jko...i know your kidding me, so i won't even touch that one

 

[BillGates]

I just got a brand new Seagate 80GB from NewEgg....install went fine and it was reasonably fast, and very quiet...

However, within 2 weeks, Win2k's event viewer was saying there were bad blocks - thorough scandisks would fix the problem for a few days and then they'd come back... Soon it was giving errors that disk failure was imminent - back up your crap because soon you'll be F'd...

Well, finally, about a month after I got the drive, it will no longer boot to Win2k - I had about 60GB of movies and programs and music on it - which I should still be able to salvage, but it sure is depressing to have that happen to a brand new drive.

I think I'm going to pop in my extra WD 20GB and use that for the OS and program files, and then eventually try to reformat the 80GB after I can salvage whatever I can off of it and then just try to use it for storage.

I had high hopes for Seagate, and maybe I just got a crappy drive, but it sure sucks.

 

[yakko]

billgates380,

Sounds like you got a bad drive. I had a Western Digital fail after a month on me once. Its replacement has been spinning away for almost a year and a half.

 

[jonnyGURU]

<< Maxtor.

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I work as an RMA tech. I've found that between WD, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung that no one drive company has a higher RMA rate (percentage wise, not quantity wise) than any other.

Western Digital will hassle you until death when you need an RMA. Seagate is no hassle, but you are guaranteed to get a refurb drive.

Maxtor gives you no hassle, a new drive AND is the only company out of the above mentioned companies that does an advanced replacement.

You can "swing" any way you want. I just thought you should know that my recommendation for Maxtor was not made out of ignorance.... or biased even (at home I have two PCs with WD's and a third running IBM's in a RAID array).

 

[zayened]

jonnyGURU, thanks for the heads up

 

[lawaris]

WD ...have 2 of em' ...the seagate was great too till I sold it !!

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

Seagate.

I wouldnt touch an IBM w/ a 10 ft. stick...

 

[IGBT]

I have 4 30 gig WD ata100 drives with no prob's yet. Had a used 30 gig WD fail in a Preserio 7935 that I bought referbd but compac replaced the drive free and it has been trouble free. So I have few complaints about WD. But some people think their trashy. But I know more people with failed IBM deskstar's then any other drive.

 

[Kelvrick]

<< Seagate ! >>

 

[SyahM]

Seagate, i have the ata66 30Gb, bought three years ago and still running strong 24/7.