Seagate hard drives . . . do you like them or not?

**Lukke** · 05-16-2007, 03:20 AM

I would suggest Western Digital.

**who** · 05-16-2007, 03:28 AM

**commonsense** · 05-16-2007, 03:42 AM

Seagates externals are great. The 400-500gb models are pretty strudy and stable.

**Gaybucks** · 05-16-2007, 10:30 AM

We've purchased more than 60 drives over the last 5 years.

I have a theory that all the drive manufacturers get together once a year and decide who is going to have a bad run that year, because every single brand we've purchased has had multiple failures except for Samsung (no failures at all) and Seagate (only one failure.) But, to be fair, we've only had a couple of Samsung drives, not enough to really draw a conclusion.

Western Digitals are generally considered to be pieces of crap by many industry people; they have had more failures for us than any other single brand (probably at least 6 or 7 failures), but Maxtor is a close second (3 or 4 failures.)

Hitachi drives have been pretty reliable, though they sucked when their storage division was owned by IBM.

Seagate, next to Samsung, are the most reliable drives we have ever had. They do come with a 5 year warranty while all the others are generally 1 or at the most 3 years, and I think that says something.

**salesman** · 05-16-2007, 11:36 AM

my brother buys only seagate harddiscs, they have longer warranty here and they are more quiet than WD and their temperature is much lower compared to other

**leedsfan** · 05-16-2007, 11:40 AM

ive bought dozens of seagate drives along with all the other brands, and just like all the other brands they fail...

recently the last two i bought i had to send back to be replaced.

**bigalownz** · 05-16-2007, 02:10 PM

Seagate or Western Digital

stay away from cheap nasty ones

**Brad Gosse** · 05-16-2007, 02:16 PM

Seagate is awesome, I have at least 10 of their drives. Great product!

**jonesonyou** · 05-16-2007, 02:21 PM

never hand any problems with any seagate

**LiveDose** · 05-16-2007, 02:25 PM

Never had any problems with Seagate.

**geedub** · 05-16-2007, 02:38 PM

seagates have a 5 year warranty.. thats pretty elite

**JP513** · 05-16-2007, 03:02 PM

Originally posted by Gaybucks

We've purchased more than 60 drives over the last 5 years.

I have a theory that all the drive manufacturers get together once a year and decide who is going to have a bad run that year, because every single brand we've purchased has had multiple failures except for Samsung (no failures at all) and Seagate (only one failure.) But, to be fair, we've only had a couple of Samsung drives, not enough to really draw a conclusion.

Western Digitals are generally considered to be pieces of crap by many industry people; they have had more failures for us than any other single brand (probably at least 6 or 7 failures), but Maxtor is a close second (3 or 4 failures.)

Hitachi drives have been pretty reliable, though they sucked when their storage division was owned by IBM.

Seagate, next to Samsung, are the most reliable drives we have ever had. They do come with a 5 year warranty while all the others are generally 1 or at the most 3 years, and I think that says something.

Gaybucks thanks for a detailed, thoughtful reply. I appreciate it!

You're right--that 5 year warranty is worth something. Just won't replace lost data, but if it's free replacement that's better than the 1 yr drives. Thanks again.

my brother buys only seagate harddiscs, they have longer warranty here and they are more quiet than WD and their temperature is much lower compared to other

Good point about less noise and lower temp.Important.

Thanks to all the other really cool people who commented. Ya'll are my kinda pims.

Seagate hard drives . . . do you like them or not?

Seagate hard drives . . . do you like them or not?

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