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Western Digital or Seagate
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on July 16, 2012, 06:45:06 AM ---I listed some of the available WD drives in my previous posts
Please tell me which one and why is it better than other WD drives
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Can't really help there, unfortunately. I rarely buy externals so I can't provide any reliable feedback about them. In fact, I've only ever purchased one external drive (excluding the internal drive I put into an external enclosure).
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on July 16, 2012, 12:55:24 PM ---I don't want to be rude but....
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Atleast give your opinion then if you know about it :P
It seems almost everyone prefers WD over Seagate
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: Copperstone on July 16, 2012, 05:48:26 AM ---Most of the drives now, since the last 4-5 years are SATA. The IDE HDDs are no longer available. The 7200rpm SATA HDDs are the cheaper ones. The WD Black must be the 10000rpm SATA. Those have faster read/write speeds and much more stable than the 7200rpm counterpart.
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Do not forget SAS. While a SAS controller can work with a SATA drive, a SATA controller cannot work with a SAS drive. New 15kRPM drives are all SAS.
AFAIK, WD Black is 7200RPM, SATA 10kRPM WD drives are called Raptor or Velociraptor.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on July 16, 2012, 07:55:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: Copperstone on July 16, 2012, 05:48:26 AM ---Most of the drives now, since the last 4-5 years are SATA. The IDE HDDs are no longer available. The 7200rpm SATA HDDs are the cheaper ones. The WD Black must be the 10000rpm SATA. Those have faster read/write speeds and much more stable than the 7200rpm counterpart.
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Do not forget SAS. While a SAS controller can work with a SATA drive, a SATA controller cannot work with a SAS drive. New 15kRPM drives are all SAS.
AFAIK, WD Black is 7200RPM, SATA 10kRPM WD drives are called Raptor or Velociraptor.
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Yup i looked up Velociraptor too
It has a limited capacity less than what i need so i am not thinking about it
most likely i'll buy WD my book essentials
Triltaison:
I got a brand-new Seagate 1.5 TB about three years ago for my birthday. It failed less than four months after I got it (well within warranty), but their customer service required you to pay to contact them and wanted me to pay something stupid-expensive like $100 to ship it to them and for the shipping of a new drive to me. They were also rather rude and I pretty much got the feeling he just wanted to say "tough titties" and hang up on me. The issue was never resolved by them because they strung out contact by not responding to emails or calls until the warranty period expired, in which case they told me there was nothing they could do because the warranty expired. A coworker of my dad's is the one who replaced the faulty drive in the old shell for me, or else I'd still have a bum drive. I was really, really unhappy with their lack of customer courtesy and don't plan to ever buy from them again.
I don't know if their policies have changed since then, but their official customer support forums were full of similar problems at the time that also were ignored. Maybe it's an isolated event, but it was a REALLY unpleasant experience for me. So, ANYTHING is better than Seagate to me.
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