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Western Digital or Seagate
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 27, 2012, 12:57:48 PM ---I'll have to agree with Kira about the warranty issue. The longer the manufacturer is ready to stand by it's products it's likely more reliable they are. Take an example, i currently have a Seagate 2TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and seagate gives me a 3 year warranty for it. It's working perfectly and it turns out that was the last faultless batch manufactured by seagate before they started fucking up their drives around December 2011. Mine was manufactured in October 2011.
But this can't be taken as the only factor too. Some drives in the fucked up batch work good too like one of those my friend has. It was manufactured in January 2012 and is working good till now.
But agreed... consumer reviews are practically shit as they know nothing about the drives and it's attributes etc. They can't be relied upon completely.
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You're right and you're also wrong. When you do your research, do proper research on those who writer more details about what happened, how is it fairing, etc. Not just "shit flopped this product sucks". You can also go to some geek websites and google the product name "review" and see what you can come up with.
If you want a reliable and durable HDD, get the WD black edition. Period.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 28, 2012, 01:46:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 27, 2012, 12:57:48 PM ---I'll have to agree with Kira about the warranty issue. The longer the manufacturer is ready to stand by it's products it's likely more reliable they are. Take an example, i currently have a Seagate 2TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and seagate gives me a 3 year warranty for it. It's working perfectly and it turns out that was the last faultless batch manufactured by seagate before they started fucking up their drives around December 2011. Mine was manufactured in October 2011.
But this can't be taken as the only factor too. Some drives in the fucked up batch work good too like one of those my friend has. It was manufactured in January 2012 and is working good till now.
But agreed... consumer reviews are practically shit as they know nothing about the drives and it's attributes etc. They can't be relied upon completely.
--- End quote ---
You're right and you're also wrong. When you do your research, do proper research on those who writer more details about what happened, how is it fairing, etc. Not just "shit flopped this product sucks". You can also go to some geek websites and google the product name "review" and see what you can come up with.
If you want a reliable and durable HDD, get the WD black edition. Period.
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Eh.... Didn't you tell me to get WD Elements?
limefc:
xShadow, because you aren't putting much effort into your posts, neither will I.
--- Quote ---Lol. Where are you getting all of these horror stories from?
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I only posted one, which involved a double transistor 5VSB design used in a couple of Bestec power supplies that were utilized by OEMs. 5VSB had no SP, OCP and killed motherboard when the caps failed. I know of plenty more though.
Rest is just theory as to why a hard drive might be dead which will earn the HDD a 1 egg rating but is irrelevant of the HDD quality/age.
--- Quote ---But who cares, right? All power supplies are guerrilla soldiers waiting to pop out with rifles and kill your entire system.
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Straw man.
--- Quote ---You're making a pretty moot point here. If you can hear it clicking and it's doing random shit that no other drive in your system is doing, it's probably failing.
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Only one drive I ever owned failed from "clicking". Seagate back when it was considered to be the absolute best by the way. Rest still spin up today and act as if nothing is wrong.
Customers don't know why shit fails. They can write an elaborate article and could have owned it for 20 years and still say nothing useful.
By the way at around the cut you're talking about which is Corsair TX, you can still buy trash. Although it is pretty rare these days, thank god.
Assuming your cut starts at around 80 dollars for a PSU that is.
Below that you're swimming in trash.
And I don't have bad luck with power supplies. I KNOW why they killed my equipment. It wasn't unlucky, it was inevitable and the only factor I did not have at hand was the time - when will it happen.
One more thing, if a massive reliability problem plagues drives then you will hear about it and it won't be from the idiots at newegg feedback section because data on return rates is published. Something like a 2.5-10% return rate from a single brand or model is going to be noticed.
That's why everyone knows that Hitachi shit lives up to the Deathstar name right now.
And that WD Black 2TB (and all other 2TB drives) had high return rates... except Samsung EcoGreen and surprisingly WD20EARS.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 28, 2012, 02:18:44 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 28, 2012, 01:46:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 27, 2012, 12:57:48 PM ---I'll have to agree with Kira about the warranty issue. The longer the manufacturer is ready to stand by it's products it's likely more reliable they are. Take an example, i currently have a Seagate 2TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and seagate gives me a 3 year warranty for it. It's working perfectly and it turns out that was the last faultless batch manufactured by seagate before they started fucking up their drives around December 2011. Mine was manufactured in October 2011.
But this can't be taken as the only factor too. Some drives in the fucked up batch work good too like one of those my friend has. It was manufactured in January 2012 and is working good till now.
But agreed... consumer reviews are practically shit as they know nothing about the drives and it's attributes etc. They can't be relied upon completely.
--- End quote ---
You're right and you're also wrong. When you do your research, do proper research on those who writer more details about what happened, how is it fairing, etc. Not just "shit flopped this product sucks". You can also go to some geek websites and google the product name "review" and see what you can come up with.
If you want a reliable and durable HDD, get the WD black edition. Period.
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Eh.... Didn't you tell me to get WD Elements?
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Oh that's stupid of me. Yes, the WD Elements is for external. As for the WD black edition, that's for internal usage.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 28, 2012, 03:36:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 28, 2012, 02:18:44 AM ---Eh.... Didn't you tell me to get WD Elements?
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Oh that's stupid of me. Yes, the WD Elements is for external. As for the WD black edition, that's for internal usage.
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Whew.... relieved... i almost started doing the calculations and stuff to buy that Disk....
What are these Guys saying about WD Black Having a high return rate? I Thought Black Along with Velociraptor were the best Western Digital internal HDD.
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