300 gig external HD's - Seagate? Maxtor? Western Digital? Which do you prefer & why?
 

Was talking to two guys at Fry's today that are composers and beat the shit out of their drives (so they say) - both said go for the Seagate because it was the "best buy" - and a really good external drive.

Fry's online is only $149.00 FREE s&h but the store price was $189.99 so here I am asking you!

Hmmmmmmmmm?

BTW - just did some price comparisons on all of them and they're a little all over the place.

Which one do you think is better and why?

Thanks!

:)

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I've never had much luck with seagate. Of course, the last seagate hard drive that I owned was like 6 years ago. Right now I have a western digital and have not had any problems with it so I'd have to assume that an external WD drive would be just as good.

its funny you bring this up, I was just looking at externals today. bump for this thread.

Get the Seagate..never had a problem

Western Digital. Because I've never had a WD die on me.

I've had Maxtor's die on me after a couple of years.

Just not a maxtor

Never had seagate or WD fail

I have heard no maxtors too, cool

I've heard that a couple times now

I try not to store anything I care about on hard drives.I cant wait til the blu ray become inexpensive they will be great for storage.

Seagate - Seagate - Seagate

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http://www.nextag.com/Seagate-Pushbu...RE-PRICES-html

LOL

Prices are all over the place!

Deal is done!

Thanks for the feedback!

SEGATE 300 GB EXT COMBO 1 $149.99

subtotal $149.99
tax $12.37
Ground Shipping
(via Airborne Express) $10.34
Shipping Savings
-$10.34

total $162.36

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i just got seagate 300gb ext with 16 meg buffer xgear II case. it rocks...

bump for seagate

That's the one I just ordered

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I have always worked with WD never had a problem

Seagate cause they're quiet

i own tons..
i was a maxtor guy until one just shit the bed on me.
i went with seagate after that. Seagate is slower, but its a great drive. i opened it up and it was vacum sealed. That gave me a vote of confidence before i even plugged it in.
i would go with seagate. maxtors stack up more neatly side by side though :)
cheers
duke

I'm a fan of Lacie HD's, reliable and not over priced. I used to use WD but always had problems.:2 cents:

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http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10033

Never had problems with Maxtors and we have a lot of them but mostly using http://www.buffalotech.com/ now.

I have got 4 maxtor drives and never had any problems. :)

Seagates and I vote for either the 400gb or 500gb

I'm a WD guy.
It;s what works, and I plan on sticking to it.

...oh and the reason is because of reliablility and storage convience (stacking). I've had failures from maxtor and lacie externals.

WD is good for me!

i think i nearly had every brand now - and every single of them failed at least once. Maxtor failed more than once, but I have a lot of them.

and fyi: LaCie or Buffalo do not build drives, just the cases. Buffalo for example uses WD drives. I just bought two 1 TB Terrastations.

Lacies's use Maxtor drives. I got 3 dead Lacie 500GB external drives here.
Buffalo uses Seagates, atleast on their 2TB enclosure.

I have 11 of the Seagate 300 gb all are working perfectly.

Seagates and the 5 year warranties. Stay away from Maxtor. WD isn't much better.

Seagate and Western are reasonably safe bets.

I will never use a drive without backup again. 1 crash is all you need to justify the price of one of these.

http://www.yellowmachine.com/

Ch ModelName Serial# FirmRev Capacity State
1 ST3300622AS 5NF1MXF1 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
2 ST3300622AS 5NF1LHJM 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
3 ST3300622AS 5NF1PM1A 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
4 ST3300622AS 5NF1M33Y 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
5 ST3300622AS 5NF1L3R7 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
6 ST3300622AS 5NF1LHVN 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
7 ST3300622AS 5NF1PM2M 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
8 ST3300622AS 5NF1D7PT 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
9 ST3300622AS 5NF1PAWF 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
10 ST3300622AS 5NF1MXAS 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
11 ST3300622AS 4NF121FX 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
12 ST3300622AS 5NF1D89M 3.AAE 300.1GB RaidSet Member(1)


Ch ModelName Serial# FirmRev Capacity State
1 ST3750640AS 3QD00XDW 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
2 ST3750640AS 3QD00YP6 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
3 ST3750640AS 3QD00Y74 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
4 ST3750640AS 3QD00ZTW 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
5 ST3750640AS 3QD010A2 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
6 ST3750640AS 3QD016HZ 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
7 ST3750640AS 3QD00YRY 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)
8 ST3750640AS 3QD01690 3.AAC 750.2GB RaidSet Member(1)

Gotta love seagates

The word mmmm

mmmm


mmmm

axtor should not even be in your vocabulary.



Seagate Western Digital No Ploblem!!


Have a good weekend Platinumstein

Big B

good shit!

so i made the right move

got 12 maxtors (internal), never had a problem.

I always buy seagates. Only a few have died on me and they're the most quiet

I just bought a new external drive with a 300gb seagate drive in it. I used to buy WD and IBM but those disk just crashed on me so I started to buy Seagate after a good friend recommended them to me and they havent been anything but great to me.. The seagate disks are also by far the most silent disks on the market. :)

Lacie uses Seagate too. Had a Lacie 250GB drive crap out on me a while back, in the first few weeks of usage. The other Lacie drive I have has held up though.

But I put most, or at least more, trust in Western Digital.