Seagate 7200.11 500gb
WD SE16 500gb
Seagate's more expensive, but are Seagates any more reliable than WD's? I haven't found much information about this second gen perpendicular recording tech that the 7200.11's have. I just found out that my old WD 120gb may be failing since a clicking incident that lasted for about a minute straight a few days ago. Funny though this is actually my second 120gb as I had to send my original 120gb in due to failure and get it replaced via warranty (so this second one is refurbished. Thank goodness it was still under warranty at the time). So far though these are the only two drives that have failed me in recent memory, and they are both older IDE drives, though still WD.
Besides the 120gb, I currently have a 320gb Seagate 7200.10 SATAII and an external drive that has a WD SE16 500gb SATAII in it. Both have been working great so far, Seagate's been runnin for more than a year, WD's been goin for just over half a year.
I guess what I'm trying to ask here is, should either drives' reliability play into my decision here? Perp Rec is supposed to be more reliable or somethin like that, and I have had no problems so far, but I haven't had it long enough to experience long term reliability issues. Both my Seagate 320 and WD 500 are working great, are nice and quiet, but due to past experience with the WD 120gb IDE failing/about to fail, I don't know if reliability should be an issue when carried over to WD's more current generation of SATAII drives.
If I do get the Seagate, it'd be like $25-30 more for basically the 2nd gen perp recording (supposedly more reliable) and the 5 year warranty.
(something else for me to consider, is that I used to have two older WD SE caviar 80gb IDE drives, and those along with my current 120gb can emit quite the whiny sound when spinning compared to my 320gb and 500gb. I never noticed just how loud the 80gb's were until I removed them and replaced with the 320gb. I also have Vista turn off my inactive hard drives after some minutes of inactivity, and when the 120gb goes down it's a really big difference in sound. Sometimes I just can't wait for it to turn off.)
WD SE16 500gb
Seagate's more expensive, but are Seagates any more reliable than WD's? I haven't found much information about this second gen perpendicular recording tech that the 7200.11's have. I just found out that my old WD 120gb may be failing since a clicking incident that lasted for about a minute straight a few days ago. Funny though this is actually my second 120gb as I had to send my original 120gb in due to failure and get it replaced via warranty (so this second one is refurbished. Thank goodness it was still under warranty at the time). So far though these are the only two drives that have failed me in recent memory, and they are both older IDE drives, though still WD.
Besides the 120gb, I currently have a 320gb Seagate 7200.10 SATAII and an external drive that has a WD SE16 500gb SATAII in it. Both have been working great so far, Seagate's been runnin for more than a year, WD's been goin for just over half a year.
I guess what I'm trying to ask here is, should either drives' reliability play into my decision here? Perp Rec is supposed to be more reliable or somethin like that, and I have had no problems so far, but I haven't had it long enough to experience long term reliability issues. Both my Seagate 320 and WD 500 are working great, are nice and quiet, but due to past experience with the WD 120gb IDE failing/about to fail, I don't know if reliability should be an issue when carried over to WD's more current generation of SATAII drives.
If I do get the Seagate, it'd be like $25-30 more for basically the 2nd gen perp recording (supposedly more reliable) and the 5 year warranty.
(something else for me to consider, is that I used to have two older WD SE caviar 80gb IDE drives, and those along with my current 120gb can emit quite the whiny sound when spinning compared to my 320gb and 500gb. I never noticed just how loud the 80gb's were until I removed them and replaced with the 320gb. I also have Vista turn off my inactive hard drives after some minutes of inactivity, and when the 120gb goes down it's a really big difference in sound. Sometimes I just can't wait for it to turn off.)
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