Western Digital or Seagate

[Dhruv]

I'll have to reduce the time i study and watch anime. o.O
I'm forgetting some things.

[B-Clark]

I plan on buying another External Hard Disk Drive in 2-3 months or so when my current Hard Disk space Runs out(estimated)
i wanna buy 2 TB or 3 TB or 4 TB depending upon what is the least cost per TB
So from which company should i buy? WD or Seagate? Please Give reasons to support your answers
I may also seed from it for 10-12 hrs a day
I currently have a 2 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and it's USB 2.0 but up-gradable to USB 3.0

I'm one of those that has had bad luck with WD drives: I've had to replace every one of them within a few months.

My main torrent HDD is a Seagate GoFlex 4.0TB USB 3.0 that has been online 24/7 (except for twice a week reboots) for almost 2 years now.
Since it now has less then 100GB of free space, I have added a Seagate GoFlex 3.0TB USB 3.0.

uTorrent allows torrent downloading and seeding from different drives and folders, when selected in the Save As window.

Of course I backup those downloads onto 2TB Seagate HDDs that are on eSATA connections.

I'm trying a couple of 2.5" Samsung 1TB HDD in my laptop.
I also stuck one in a 2.5" USB 3.0 enclosure for transferring 720p anime series and movies from the torrent computer to the one connected to the HDTV.

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[Tatsujin]

I plan on buying another External Hard Disk Drive in 2-3 months or so when my current Hard Disk space Runs out(estimated)
i wanna buy 2 TB or 3 TB or 4 TB depending upon what is the least cost per TB
So from which company should i buy? WD or Seagate? Please Give reasons to support your answers
I may also seed from it for 10-12 hrs a day
I currently have a 2 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and it's USB 2.0 but up-gradable to USB 3.0

I'm one of those that has had bad luck with WD drives: I've had to replace every one of them within a few months.

My main torrent HDD is a Seagate GoFlex 4.0TB USB 3.0 that has been online 24/7 (except for twice a week reboots) for almost 2 years now.
Since it now has less then 100GB of free space, I have added a Seagate GoFlex 3.0TB USB 3.0.

uTorrent allows torrent downloading and seeding from different drives and folders, when selected in the Save As window.

Of course I backup those downloads onto 2TB Seagate HDDs that are on eSATA connections.

I'm trying a couple of 2.5" Samsung 1TB HDD in my laptop.
I also stuck one in a 2.5" USB 3.0 enclosure for transferring 720p anime series and movies from the torrent computer to the one connected to the HDTV.

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Let me get this straight. You're seeding from your drivers but you don't have an official driver to receive all incoming utorrent files? ... What type of WD series did you have anyways?

[Dhruv]

I never knew Seagate released a 4TB GoFlex Desk too. 

Anyways like Tatsujin i'd like to ask you which WD drive did you have?

[megido-rev.M]

I am not sure I follow any of this.

[MRI]

Seagate used to be a bad company. i remember not even looking for it when i bought a new HD -

best is Samsung when it come to HD.  but they are expensive.

but i use now WD and used one for about 10 years with out any issues what so ever.




Please note that i am talking about what was around 5-8 years ago.
now when SSD will take the market and you can buy 4 TB HD things have changed.

PS i really don't want to read 15 pages. so please tell in short post what you will be buying and why.
since i will prob will buy one too .

[megido-rev.M]

It was the Black or the Elements, I think.

[B-Clark]

I never knew Seagate released a 4TB GoFlex Desk too. 

Anyways like Tatsujin i'd like to ask you which WD drive did you have?

I'm unsure of the WD model, I'll have to dig it out.
I do know that the one is a IDE (PATA) 2.5" 320GB, that kept having bearing problems.
Once everyone switched to SATA, I had to go with WD for the IDE 320GB.
The laptop doesn't have enough room for a SATA to PATA adapter.
I have bought a new laptop, but I'd like to keep that one functioning, since there are a lot of older programs that won't run on a Windows 7 computer.
That's also why I keep a DOS 6.22 / Win 3.11 120MHz Pentium Notebook computer working.
40MB RAM, 2GB HDD.


Re: Seagate GoFlex 4TB USB 3.0

Look on the Seagate website, you will find it listed, but none available.

When SE Asia flooded a couple of years ago, the HDD factories had to be rebuilt, and the 4TB external HDDs are probably low on the priority list.
Unlike regular external drives, the GoFlex are sealed as external drives.
Internally, the GoFlex 4TB has 3 Partitions, which the base combines into one drive.


And for the other person:
I have a default download folder on the 4TB drive: L:\Download\
I change the drive letter to the download folder on the 3TB drive: W:\Download\
uTorrent will seed from where ever the download is at.
I manually start the download, because I want to set where the download folder is, and what the max seeding speed is.

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[Dhruv]

PS i really don't want to read 15 pages. so please tell in short post what you will be buying and why.
since i will prob will buy one too .

Depends on your usage.
If you wanna use it for torrenting then i suggest buy a Caviar Black and put it in an Aluminium external enclosure which has a fan too.
If you want it for storage only buy an Elements.


B-Clark: I searched ebay and found it. But it's not at all cost effective with a very high per TB cost.