Seagate or WD?

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:16 am

Seagate ST31000340AS 1000GB Barracuda 7200.10 SATA-II 32MB (5YR MFG - 1YR MB) 1st yr Hot Swap

or

WD Caviar 1000GB 7200rpm 16M SATA (WD10EACS) (3YR MFG - 1YR MB

Oddly the Seagate is cheaper, but I've never had a WD fail on me.

Need a quick response. I'll be using it for UFI drive and raiding the 2 WD 500G's I have now for the OS's.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:35 am

The 1GB for WD is 5,400 RPM. BUT it is also the quietest, coolest (temp) and uses the least power of the three, practically none when it's in idle.

I have no idea what UFI means. Must be a *nix term or something

If it's a drive with an OS on it I'd get the Seagate. But then again I don't buy anything BUT raptors for system drives. I have 3 of the WD 1TB drives and no problems.

Flama22 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:54 am

We just had a Seagate Barracuda die today at work in our slave processing system... I'm not anti-Seagate or anything I just thought it was ironic that this question was asked just as I finished removing the drive.

Also, I've never had a WD fail as well.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:56 am

I've had drives of every manufacturer (some of teh don't exist anymore hah!) drive fail over the past 15 years. It's a crapshoot sometimes you'll just get a lemon.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:38 pm

Useless Fluffying Information. Patches, drivers, map packs, utilities, MP3's, movies.

I've ordered the Seagate, it should be fine, if not there is the hot swap when it dies, we've had decent luck with them at work.

Monkeydee · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:33 pm

bear in mind that the seagate has a 32mb cache vs. the 16mb cache on the WD. so the seagate will perform better, although how noticable that will be, especially on a "UFI" drive, is debatable at best.

maverick_brent · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:11 pm

WD has always been good to me, but cant recall a seagate dieing..i really cant remember what HDD were in the HP my gf bought,. but both replacments died within 3 months, then they sent a WD...and *knock on wood* shes still kickin...

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:32 pm

Too funny, the Seagate in my Win2K machine at work just went tit's up. I noticed all my b's were sagging (subscript) so I rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted. Then gave up.

maverick_brent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:20 pm

two seagates in less than 24hrs, how many ppl here are running their main system with a WD in them?

Denty · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:03 am

all my drives are wd except for a samsung

Topsecret66 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1366

Seagates. Never problematic.

Flama22 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:56 am

One of my roommates had a Maxtor die on him last night... Bad (hard drive) news must come in three's.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:39 am

3 bloody hours to format...

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:24 pm

Dr_BenD_over wrote:

Too funny, the Seagate in my Win2K machine at work just went tit's up. I noticed all my b's were sagging (subscript) so I rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted. Then gave up.

Looks like it was the IDE controller, farewell P3 733. :cry:

Topsecret66 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1366

Why is this topic up!

What a fuckin curse! I just had a WD blow up!!! :evil:

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