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Hard Drive Brand Debate
Tiffanys:
I'm a fan of Western Digital. I've always used them and have never had any problems.
When ordering HDD's, always use Fedex, not UPS. UPS tends to be very rough with their packages, so you're going to end up with a lot higher chance of DOA computer equipment.
mgz:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 18, 2010, 03:54:46 AM ---I'm a fan of Western Digital. I've always used them and have never had any problems.
When ordering HDD's, always use Fedex, not UPS. UPS tends to be very rough with their packages, so you're going to end up with a lot higher chance of DOA computer equipment.
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lol fedex is known for more damage claims then UPS.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 18, 2010, 03:54:46 AM ---I'm a fan of Western Digital. I've always used them and have never had any problems.
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I'm the same. But mainly for laptop HDDs. True, Seagate isn't bad... but it's noisy. Not something I enjoy in a laptop. In a desktop? I could care less. I assume that Seagate has finally ironed out the wrinkles that their little escapade with Maxtor caused.
True, in all seriousness you can pick up any HDD and use it and it's generally fine now. But I still would rather use WD. Dunno, just feels better for me. Not to mention their prices for laptop HDDs were best + had best size selection previously. (I will admit though that I haven't checked prices in a while. 5 bucks difference for a 320GB HDD vs a 160GB HDD from Fujitsu was the selling point for me last year. 115 CAD for the WD vs 110 for the Fujitsu at best buy. I later bought my HDD on newegg.ca for 106CAD and kicked myself when I found it for 98 at NCIX.ca. But that was like... last year January or something.
Klocknov:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 18, 2010, 03:54:46 AM ---I'm a fan of Western Digital. I've always used them and have never had any problems.
When ordering HDD's, always use Fedex, not UPS. UPS tends to be very rough with their packages, so you're going to end up with a lot higher chance of DOA computer equipment.
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A quick hit on that, I will no longer let Fedex touch my computer equipment since the only three orders I have had delivered by them have all had either damaged boxes or broken parts in them and have yet to have a single problem with UPS. So maybe that goes by area you live in since around here UPS is the better for shipping fragile stuff.
Now to HDDs I will start with the old. IDE I couldn't be bothered, only had one drive die out of six, and yes it was a WD. Now I have a 8 year old going on nine Seagate 80gig, a Fujitsu 40gig going on ten years, a 250gig WD that is going on 2 years, and a Maxtor 20 gig that got ripped out of a Dell box that the mobo fried in. (Couldn't tell you how old that Maxtor is... but guessing between 4 and 6 years.) Then I have another one in the closet that is ancient and 8gigs from Seagate.
Now when it comes to buying I shuffle between WD and Seagate depending on what I am buying for. Storage the WDD Greens are great choices and mains I normally choose Seagate. Now past that I have had less luck with WD being as I got a 500gb blue as my main drive and it is dieing slowly in this computer and choose to use my Seagate 1tb as storage. So past that I wish Fujitsu wouldn't have been bought by Toshiba, but maybe Toshiba will start making drives worth my attention. I will admit I have never really gave Hitachi a chance but never really saw anything from them that caught my eye.
And for the dude that brought up Quantum drives that was a bum deal when Maxtor took them over, they made great drives that could take hell.
Perplexing:
I prefer WD myself however I recently purchased a 1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7200RPM I have been very impressed with this drive.
I previously had a Hitachi HDD for my old laptop and it did fine for me so for the price I decided to try their desktop HDD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145287&cm_re=hitachi_1tb-_-22-145-287-_-Product
$84.99 for 1TB $149.99 for a 2TB
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