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Hard Drive Brand Debate

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mgz:
Ive got 2 seafate 320s in this pc 2 250s 1 in this comp one in another 2 500gb seragates in this and 2 640s and a WD raptor 74gig
everything but the 640s ive had for over 3 years of almost 24/7 powered computer.

vuzedome:
Discs rotating at 12000 rpm.
A very scary thought.
SSD is the way to go, though my first one will definitely burn through my wallet.

fohfoh:

--- Quote from: kureshii on February 26, 2010, 12:35:18 PM ---Seagate already had the firmware issue sorted, IIRC. This was more than half a year ago in any case. I lost a Barracuda 11 to it too, but it was replaced under warranty so it's not an issue. Three other identical drives have been running without issues for over a year, I'm still waiting for them to fail before the warranty runs out. RAID 5 <3

I just looked up the warranty card for my WD drives, it seems warranty for the first 3 years are covered by WD. The 2 subsequent years are covered by a third-party firm. If they don't follow a similar policy in other regions, then I guess their drives will only have 3-year warranties.

Also, using WD Greens as main OS drive... lol.

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IMO, using an overly big drive as the main OS drive... is lol. To much busy busy.

Sakubo:
Ive used western digital and seagate drives. I have had several problems with western digital drives were they went bad right after buying them so I havent tried any recently. Atm I have 4 seagate drives in my pc but I dont really like them either. They store stuff, they arent really loud but I notice that sometimes when you try to access data from them the drive seems to hang up for a short period of time which is really annoying.

Takeshi:

--- Quote from: theprophet on February 25, 2010, 01:32:33 AM ---I am seeing a trend towards the WD here lol. I am just wondering. I have heard that WD is the fastest but how is their dependability and longevity?

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I've dropped my 320GB WD Passport a few times from 1-1,5 metres height, and it's still working wonderfully. However, the casing makes some crack noises when I squeeze it. Not the hardware inside. Perfectly understandable though. And there's scratches all over the place. By the way, bought in 2008 something.

I have a 1TB WD Elements also, and it's been doing nothing but serve me well. It hasn't had any accidents, and I rarely have it on for longer than a few hours so I plan to have it available for years to come. Bought in 2009 something.

It was pure coincidence that I stumbled over WD. It was a Danish computer magazine who were reviewing a few hardware products. And they happened to give WD a pretty good score, and it looked very sleek and nice so I bought it, and why chance your manufacture if you're happy with the product you bought from them in the first place?

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