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  • Electra
    Registered User
    • Dec 2002
    • 9
    #1

    Hard Drive Recommendations Please

    I want to buy a couple of external hard drives. Have narrowed it down to Seagate or Western Digital but cant decide on a model. Anyone have any recommendations? Anything you've been using thats been particularly reliable.
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    • L-Pink
      working on my tan
      • Mar 2005
      • 39151
      #2
      Originally posted by Electra
      I want to buy a couple of external hard drives. Have narrowed it down to Seagate or Western Digital but cant decide on a model. Anyone have any recommendations? Anything you've been using thats been particularly reliable.
      I've always had good luck with Seagate.




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        • Loch
          Confirmed User
          • Feb 2002
          • 7674
          #3
          we have had 20 servers running non stop from january 2008, with only 2 dead drives.
          THAT should speak for itself.
          Seagate 1TB and 1.5TB drives.

          Ohh and i should mention that this is HD encoding servers so under constand stress

          Edit: 4-6 drives pr server to give you a better idea

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            • jollyperv
              Confirmed User
              • Nov 2001
              • 3927
              #4
              I've had a WD fail on me after 4 months. Stick with seagate.

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                • loverboy
                  When it rains, it pours
                  • May 2003
                  • 20609
                  #5
                  Go for Seagate. I had 2 WD 400GB HDs break down just after a few months.

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                    • Darkcrni
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                      • Jun 2007
                      • 1704
                      #6
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                        • dready
                          Confirmed User
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 5247
                          #7
                          Seagate has a better warranty, but I've seen a lot of their drives die lately. Never seen a WD drive die.
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                            • CYF
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                              • Mar 2009
                              • 10973
                              #8
                              I have an external WD Passport drive, it rocks.
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                                • HomerSimpson
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                                  • Sep 2005
                                  • 13826
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by CYF
                                  I have an external WD Passport drive, it rocks.
                                  had one of those and it broke
                                  then I had Seagate and it broke too
                                  now I have Maxtor Black Armor with 5year warranty
                                  still works fine
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                                    • Twig
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Nov 2005
                                      • 1949
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by dready
                                      Seagate has a better warranty, but I've seen a lot of their drives die lately. Never seen a WD drive die.
                                      Exactly. I'm so surprised people here are all over Seagate as they have a VERY bad rep the past couple years for their horrible firmware(caused HDD's to fail) and bad CusService.
                                      Western Digital 4 lyfe.
                                      No really, WD has ALWAYS been good to me. I've had SeaGates die before.

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                                        • Twig
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Nov 2005
                                          • 1949
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by HomerSimpson
                                          had one of those and it broke
                                          then I had Seagate and it broke too
                                          now I have Maxtor Black Armor with 5year warranty
                                          still works fine
                                          Seagate owns Maxtor. You probably bought the same HDD, lol.

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                                            • split_joel
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jan 2005
                                              • 2270
                                              #12
                                              Go with a deskstar LOL jk

                                              stick with seagate
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                                                • Twig
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Nov 2005
                                                  • 1949
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by split_joel
                                                  Go with a deskstar LOL jk

                                                  stick with seagate
                                                  Oh snap, classics. I still have a DeskStar. It's a 4GB.

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                                                    • split_joel
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                      • 2270
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by Twig
                                                      Oh snap, classics. I still have a DeskStar. It's a 4GB.
                                                      Well back in the day they were known as the ibm deskstar i called them deathstars as in they were the biggest POS ever developed almost as bad as ECS motherboards now deskstars are made by Hitachi but im still to scared to go anywhere near them
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                                                        • split_joel
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Jan 2005
                                                          • 2270
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by Twig
                                                          Exactly. I'm so surprised people here are all over Seagate as they have a VERY bad rep the past couple years for their horrible firmware(caused HDD's to fail) and bad CusService.
                                                          Western Digital 4 lyfe.
                                                          No really, WD has ALWAYS been good to me. I've had SeaGates die before.
                                                          Maxtor was good years ago, western digital was to however more WD have died in our data center then any other brand, seagate has been good for the past year and I will stick with it for now.
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                                                            • rowan
                                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                              • Mar 2002
                                                              • 17393
                                                              #16
                                                              As you can see by the replies so far in this thread everyone has their horror stories about a specific brand and there's no real consensus.

                                                              Apart from the serious firmware issue with the Seagate 7200.12 drives I don't think there's been any major quality control issues with any manufacturer lately. They're all pretty much the same.

                                                              BTW, Seagate have changed back to 3 year warranties for consumer drives.

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                                                                • rowan
                                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                  • Mar 2002
                                                                  • 17393
                                                                  #17
                                                                  Originally posted by Twig
                                                                  Oh snap, classics. I still have a DeskStar. It's a 4GB.
                                                                  I have an 8.4GB deskstar but I think both of those drives would have been well before the deathstar period...

                                                                  I have a 60GB deskstar which turned into a deathstar recently when I plugged it in to see if it still worked. click clack zzziiiippp click clack zziiiip

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                                                                    • rowan
                                                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                      • Mar 2002
                                                                      • 17393
                                                                      #18
                                                                      Found the 8.4GB and plugged it in for fun... it sounds like I live next door to a butcher and he's cutting up meat with a bandsaw. Raw read speed is 7.5Mbytes/sec.

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                                                                        • docputer
                                                                          Confirmed User
                                                                          • Jun 2006
                                                                          • 1103
                                                                          #19
                                                                          I am another Seagate fan.

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