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raptors = any seagate drive in reliability....

BUT... i run a server hosting business, and earlyer this year i had to rma around 5 WD drives, and 1 seagate drive... the seagate was a refurb to begin with....

i run currently 60% seagate drives, about 25% wd, and the rest is what i could get my hands on... currently phasing out all of my WD drives except my raptors in my curent rig
 
Originally posted by: TSCrv
raptors = any seagate drive in reliability....

BUT... i run a server hosting business, and earlyer this year i had to rma around 5 WD drives, and 1 seagate drive... the seagate was a refurb to begin with....

i run currently 60% seagate drives, about 25% wd, and the rest is what i could get my hands on... currently phasing out all of my WD drives except my raptors in my curent rig
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Right now, SMART reports that my seagate has accumulated crapload of seek errors whereas my raptor has none. My raptor also consistently runs cooler than my seagate.
 
take with a grain of salt, these are my experiences, and your milage may vary....

raptor is susposed to be enterprise quality.... WD in general on the other hand is worse than seagate....

as for cooling, well im in the middle of some projects with my servers so cant comment on that....

also i dont do any SMART stuff, the only point im proving is reliability till they start getitng the click of death.... i have 5 of 6 seagate drives that were in a server when it fell down half a flight of stairs.... ive known a few people who have had less happen to their drives and i have found myself attempting to recover data from them....

and as a repair tech in a commercial tech consulting company i see a good deal of bad WD;s, hitachis or whatever they are called these days, samsungs.... there are some bad seagates but not NEARLY as many as WD... (and again, raptor doesnt count)
 
wd 200gig 3 platter blew up pretty much a month after i got it. wd was really cool about cross shipping me a replacement, a refurb drive. dunno if this is par for the course for them, w/e i'm not going again for wd.

i've had ibm/hitachi blow up (60gxp, 4 platter version of the infamous 75gxp) 6 months out but generally they seem pretty bomber, i have used 3 other ibm/hitachis over the years, all good drives. ibm sent me a refurb. replacement for the 60gxp. their laptop drives are really nice, i've had one in a laptop for over 3 years. i would buy a hitachi drive again.

currently i use a segate, 400g drive, very good drive. segate has a 5 year warranty as well, current industry is 2-3 years, some as low as 1 year.

i also double up 2 15k drives, one seagate one maxtor. i have had one failure in 3 years with one of the raid 1 drives -- hot ejected the failed drive, re-inserted it and poof it was good again, the card rebuilt the failed drive. i would buy a seagate again, sata or scsi.

data dying is a real buzzkill, that's why i went for the admittedly 10 ton hammer of 15k scsi raid 1. i recommend if you are running a very hot system environment you spend more time thinking about the enclosure and heat than anything else.
 
out of 2 WD drives i've ever owned, 1 of them has overheating problems. its not due to poorly cooled case, or improper installation. the other is doing fine: 150gb raptor
 
i have 4 wd drives in one comp, 3 seagate ones spread along the other 2... dont have problems with any of them. Personaly seagate or wd are my prefered drives and i do not touch any other drive (well except my one lone maxtor, the thing is darn fast😛)

Raptors are sorta server level and in fact when i worked for a transmition company they used raid 1 raptors for their servers as a cheap reliable alternative to server drives.

There were some people saying that the few 250 gig wd druives were awful, or was that seagate, i cant remember now. My 200 gig wd drives are fine, except one has a faulty temp sensor
 
Maxtors are the worse IMO for the click of death. I've seen a couple WD's die from click of death but I've also seen a WD 20gb last for years without problems and used daily. Back about 3 years ago I used Maxtor till I had to RMA mine and my sisters several times over the course of a year or so for the click problem. Non of them died instantly luckly. They just showed the warnings which I called Maxtor same day for RMA.

About 2 years ago I switched all my HD's to Seagate along with my sisters. We have yet to have a Seagate fail(knock on wood).
 
From my experience, Seagate does indeed rock. However, my current one is a WD and it is running great, and has been for over half a year. Seagates do seem much quieter from what I've seen, there are no head parking clicks, and it's quiet even with the case open. If you're running with the case closed, you won't hear anything either way (except head park click which scared the hell out of me before I knew what it was). Also, like many others, Maxtors are suppose to suck, but many people swear by them. So you can probably just jump on any wagon, and unless your luck sucks, you should be fine. However, Seagate does have better warranty: 5 years as opposed to 3 for WD.
 
According to StorageReview's reliability database, WDs (in general) are below average. But you also have to keep in mind that the participants in that survey are self-selected. Meaning that negative experiences will predominate as those that are fat and happy with their drives aren't as likely to participate. Until recently, Seagate didn't even package their own drives for the retail channel. So when people bought another drive, the choice on the store shelf in big bright boxes was between WD and Maxtor (or some unknown brand in a packager's box). The extra ego investment in those brands ("That I made the effort to choose my own self.") provides the energy to find a way to vent.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: firebyyrd
WDs are great.

Seagates are great.

both work perfectly fine and are quite reliable.
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QFT!
These are the two brands to get. I have bought many, many of each and wouldn't have a problem buying more.
My one quick blurb. I have both a 500GB Seagate and a 500GB WD. The Seagate is NOTICEABLY hotter. And I mean blistering hot. I have to point a fan directly at it to keep it cool.

 
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