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Seagate..the 2nd shittiest HDD manufacturer.
MrSparkle:
Without doing anything, I'm back to full speed / no speed toggling. I'll play around with cables and all that this weekend or so. This has been going on since I got it, but it IS the only drive I have not disconnected etc since then. Thanks for the input!
2.5" drives on desktops is really taking off (at least with ssd), so I have been wondering up to what capacity are 2.5" hdds cheaper due to less metal and the like. Seems like a 2.5" using a single platter should be cheaper then a 3.5" with 5/6th of a platter disabled. After 2 minutes of 'research', 160 GB will indeed be cheaper with 2.5", and it draws less power / noise to boot! 320 GB and you are looking at $5 difference. Morel of the rambling story, theres a few dollars I can save when I build my father's computer.
How many parents need 4 GB more then the OS?
temuchin:
honestly i recommend Western Digital. never had one of those go south.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: rheffera on August 26, 2010, 01:03:18 AM ---I hate to say this but i have had so many problems with seagate drives.
2 drives in a row that were DOA.
But i gave them the benefiet of the doubt that i was just having bad luck. Now this.
Seagate 1.5TB, ST31500341AS..Firmw are: CC1H
Problem?
7 reallocated sectors in only 287 hrs of power-on hours. Will seagate take it back?
The only company worse is samsungs 2.5" drives..bought one brand new, died within a month, the replacment did the same, and the replacement for the replacement did the same thing. Samsung's 3.5" are ok though.
What are other peoples experiences like?
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Piece of shit HDDs. Worst of the worst.
Go Western Digital. They'll ease your mind ...
Razorflame:
I bought a 1TD HDD by Seagate about half a year ago, and I've been using it ever since without any problems other than the occasional hiccup in retrieval of information, but I attribute that to normal behavior.
Cheers!
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: rheffera on September 28, 2010, 09:16:42 AM ---hey guys..the drive i posted about in my orginal post now has 31 Reallocated Sectors and its saying something about 19 uncorrectable errors
the drive is FAILING its Short and Long diagnostic tests.
This drive is only seen 300 hours service life...what a joke
Im gonna buy me a WD and backup my anime while i can
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For Anime, I suggest to get Western Digital Note Books or WD Elements.
About Green WD HDDs, I don't know so much about those. I relay on Black editions. They're safer.
Edit -- I recommend the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136505
This is what I'm using. I have four of them:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136395
Been running for close to 2 years now.
Internals, this is the best one I can recommend:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284 (I want ... 2 of them ...)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533 (2 more dollars for better specs)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456 (I want 2 of those.... lol)
But that's about it. The greens are "ok" to have. I just don't trust them. I don't know about the other versions, but I can tell you the black versions (black edition, elements, note books) I highly recommend.
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