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| Thread ID: 135536 | 2013-11-14 22:39:00 | Cheap HDDs | linw (53) | Press F1 |
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| 1359885 | 2013-11-15 21:58:00 | Correct me ... but with my SATA2 motherboard with my SATA1 or SATA2 HDDs they tend to max out around 65MB/sec copying a 2 or 4GB video from one SATA port to the other ... There may be some temporarily burst speed isn't that not substantial for everyday computing .... Even the 2.5" HDDs weren't bad at all maybe 10-15% slower only from memory. Re: SATA1 or SATA2 my results were so close that the diff was so small and occasionally the SATA1 might have copied the file just a bit quicker than SATA2 using my stopwatch ... | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1359886 | 2013-11-17 14:51:00 | Seagate, especially 3.5 inch terabyte drives or more, are GARBAGE. I have two that are failed right here. One had 19 hours on it before going crazy with crap sectors, the other is too dead to say what the problem is. They are not something you want to rely on, and I wouldn't pay any money for them as you honestly need to have a backup for them if you want the actual data, which defeats the purpose of saving money. Go for something else, anything else, even with no brandname is ok. Also, don't be fooled by the outside case if you can possibly avoid it. Verbatim, which I haven't had much trouble with, I opened up to find a segate drive inside it. The case is branded varbatim and the box is branded verbatim as well. I have no idea what other places they put their rubbish or how to work out what is actually under the hood, but just mention what I have found. All of these drives I speak of were new from the shop this year. |
TropoScatter (17158) | ||
| 1359887 | 2013-11-17 22:48:00 | Seagate, especially 3.5 inch terabyte drives or more, are GARBAGE.Strange to hear that, which co-incidently I've heard a bit more recently. How can Seagates drop from being one of or the best regarded drives in a matter of a decade? Admittedly I haven't bought any standalone drive in a decade. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1359888 | 2013-11-17 23:29:00 | Have a 2tb Seagate drive here and 2x 1tb Seagate drives. No problems with any of them. I have have 1 WD blue drive die on me and another do odd things. I feel like no one at the consumer level goes through enough drives from a particular "generation" to say whether any specific brand is crap or not. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1359889 | 2013-11-18 00:20:00 | I feel like no one at the consumer level goes through enough drives from a particular "generation" to say whether any specific brand is crap or not. Couldn't agree more :thumbs: Having a couple of drives fail is nothing. Big deal - its simply bad luck or something has caused it to happen - I had 3 drives fail in a month a few years back on this PC, it was the PSU causing the failures, changed the PSU & drive and no problems since. When a person or company deals with thousands of drives, then they can come back and make comments relating to reliability / findings. Anyone can read what "tests" others have done, and if you notice no two will actually come to the same conclusion as theres to many factors in what will cause a drive to fail. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359890 | 2013-11-18 02:15:00 | Strange to hear that, which co-incidently I've heard a bit more recently. How can Seagates drop from being one of or the best regarded drives in a matter of a decade? Admittedly I haven't bought any standalone drive in a decade. Regardless of Seagate's current quality level, a decade is a LONG time in electronics. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1359891 | 2013-11-18 03:19:00 | Seagate, especially 3 . 5 inch terabyte drives or more, are GARBAGE . I have two that are failed right here . One had 19 hours on it before going crazy with crap sectors, the other is too dead to say what the problem is . They are not something you want to rely on, and I wouldn't pay any money for them as you honestly need to have a backup for them if you want the actual data, which defeats the purpose of saving money . Go for something else, anything else, even with no brandname is ok . As a similar anecdote, I've had a 100% failure rate on the last 4 WD drives I've bought . And zero percent on the 19 Seagates in the same timeframe (about 16 months) . Both brands are still, overall, very good . Both have had issues with particular batches and firmware versions . There've also been a few cases that appear to be cartons of drives being damage in transit to retailers . Plus, you should have a backup of ANY data that you actually want, regardless of how reliable you believe the storage platform it's on is . |
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