Seagate

[mousiness]

Well after a lot reaserch i have decided that my next system will have a seagate HDD like my current pc, i think that this company has proven its quality and what it can truly do by its speed, reliability and extreme capacities, not only does seagate offer a very good quality product, but it will never fail on you unless you are the most absolute hardcore programmer or graphics designer, other companies like maxtor and western digital will fail on you over and over again and their grid arrays on their HDD are definietly obsolote by far compared to seagate, from its first HDD to its current state-of-the-art 7200.10 superdrive (750GB), seagate has always been the leader in HDD technology and thats why i have seagate drives in all my pc's...

[bulwark]

let's not forget the fact that seagate has their 5 year warrenty. I now have a hodge podge of HDs comprising of WDs, Seagates and Maxtor and that 5 year seagate warrenty helps me sleep just a lil more soundly

[PUTALE]

I think the 5 years of warranty really wins me over for seagate. REgardless of the performance of hte drive, the fact that they warrnt their HD for 5 years just to show that you can relax knowing that your product is good and even if it's not, you will be covered.

[mousiness]

whoops i forgot to include that lol, yeah and 5 years is basically the time that youd be using that machine for, my average usage of my pcs are 3-5 years so seagates warranty is more than enough, just 2 days ago my friends WD HDD fried and everything in it got totally destroyed, they had to buy a whole new pc just because of the HDD remains in the pc

[Kougar]

...their grid arrays on their HDD are definietly obsolote by far compared to seagate...

Okay, so what's a HDD grid array?


Talking about modern drives only, I have 2 Western Digitals, one Maxtor, one SATA type Seagate, one Hitachi and one IBM/Hitachi Deathstar.

I can't plug it in just now to give the figure, but I'd bet that the one 17gig WD drive I have has more runtime hours on it than any other drive anyone else in this forums has! And no, I don't mean total age of the drive, I mean a total time count while spinning, in minutes. :D (I'll make a thread with the info when I can get it installed in a working system and a new count.)

I have another WD drive bought recently, that had some very strange issues and died promptly after the 1 year warranty would have normally expired, had it not been a rare 3-year warrantied model I paid a little more for. I am currently running the replacement unit, and it's already showing the same symptoms the first one did.

So far I have nothing to say either way about the Maxtor, it's been over a year and not a peep or problem out of it... I guess the point is moot since they will not be around much longer though.

Hitachi was very kind and gave me a replacement Deathstar under their logo with a warranty on it. The other 200gb Hitachi drive features a full 5-year warranty, and outperforms the rest of my drives in most areas.

Seagate... well, out of every HDD I have owned, I've never once had a drive that did NOT come with HDD Acoustic Management. Not even my 7 year old WD drive lacks this feature!! This Seagate drive is a SATA model no less, and because it does not have acoustic management it is loud as heck during writes, and just loud during reads. Imagine a cricket that you can hear clearly across your room. Now amplify it enough so you can hear it across your room even with music or a TV playing, that is how loud it can get under a heavy load. Seagate may also have a 5 year warranty, but Hitachi makes better performing, silent, and even larger capacity yet cooler running drives... that also have a 5-year warranty. Seagate is stuck in 2nd place in my book... ;)

Not only does Hitachi generally have better quality (Read: Performing here) drives than the .7, .8, and .9 Seagate model series, but due to my personal experiences with them I would only recomend Hitachi more.

Trying to get a RMA through WD was a small pita, and I got sent a junk drive in return that is not quite a year old and just starting the process of dying. The Deathstar I was sent is working just as great as a new drive even after two years of use, even if it naturally runs a tad warmer.

Hitachi first, Seagate second... maybe Samsung third, I believe their drives have either a 3 or 5 year warranty even if performance lags behind Seagate, which lags behind Hitachi... (.10 model Seagate drives excluded, of course.)

Edited for formatting.

[Bio-Hazard]

I've used just about every HD brand out there over ther past 20 years or so and to date I've only had one HD fail. That was a 100 gig WD in my wifes E-Machines (cheapest drives from WD). So I really don't have any complaints about any of the brands except for the noise out of the Maxtors I had before I got my WD SATA drives I have now. I still use the Maxtors for extrenal back-up storage though, but they're not turned on all that much due to noise, but thet work just fine.
I've still got some small small drives around the shop that have to be 7-8 years old (less than 1 gig) that still get used in some of the old boxes I have around for servers and folding boxes and the like................;)

[mousiness]

also modern IBMS all come with quality parts, i have an s51 and the companies put into the machine are amaizing, thats why theyre more expensive, in my IBM i have a seagate 7200.8 250GB drive, a lite-on cd-rw drive and crucial ram, its unbelievable what parts IBM puts in their machines, only the best and no less... my dads seagate had burned out a few years back, that drive was a WD Raptor, everything was fully compatible until the whole drive spun out of rotation and melted away... i feel WD is more for the value-concious buyer while seagate gives only the best to the buyer who will pay the extra dollar for an excellent product, hitachis super-speed drives are good for servers also

[werty316]

Seagate is a great HD company. I have a 80GB that is still running strong after 4-5 years of use. Only issue is I think Seagate doesn't provide advance RMAs for Canadians. Only HDs I have had problems with is WD HDS. Had a 120GB die twice within 4 months. It seems that WDs HDs tend to die faster than other manufacturers.

[tomato]

I've owned Seagate since my first build (a 6 or 8GB HD) and have never looked back. LOVE their HD's... tried out a 60GB Maxtor DiamondMax after hearing some good reviews (and it was a great deal).... it died on me in 6 months.... RMA'd it and sold it on ebay.... I've never had a problem with any of my Seagate HD's (of which I've owned around 5 different models) Seagate for LIFE!