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| Thread ID: 42839 | 2004-02-24 07:03:00 | Wester Digital vs Seagate | Growly (6) | Press F1 |
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| 217832 | 2004-02-25 21:38:00 | My Seagate 120Gb has an 8MB cache. I'd suggest checking Tom's Hardware for latest reviews on drive speeds, manufacturers have been known to tweak the specs. My money's on the Seagate drives at the moment, if only for reliability and warranty length especially if looking at operating a fast RAID 0 setup. | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 217833 | 2004-02-26 00:01:00 | > I have a WD PATA Hdd, and it is REALLY noisy (noiser than all 5 of my fans). It had a bad sector, and it crapped out. (Missed warranty by one day). Missing the warranty by one day does not mean that you have no right to claim on goods that have failed. Under the Consumers Guarantee Act 1993 goods must be fit for the purpose of which they were designed for a reasonable length of time under normal use and you could argue that 12 months is not a reasonable lifespan for your hard drive. Check out Jester's post (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) for more details on the Act. If your HDD died fairly recently I would be doing something about it if I were you. ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 217834 | 2004-02-26 19:55:00 | hmmmm.... checking Tom's Hardware, but then again they are not known for for their accurate reviews, they're generally quite bias. | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 217835 | 2004-02-26 20:30:00 | I have had both and as far as I can tell, there is no difference in performance. (XP2100 512M ) I had a Seagate 80Gig for 7 months and it failed. Couldn't wait for the test/return of the drive, so brought a WD 80Gig with 8Meg cache. The WD is just as quiet, but makes a "clunk" noise on closing down the PC. Enquired with supplier and it is normal. But I did like the 3year warranty for WD (8Meg cache models) verses the Seagate 1 year warranty. Worth the extra $ for that piece of mind for me. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 217836 | 2004-02-26 22:58:00 | The premium seagate models (ones with 8mb cache) all have 3 year warranties now. I had a 120Gb seagate going for 7months and it has just died. Its still at data recovery and I'm waiting to hear back from them about what the story is (this was 3 weeks ago I sent it in). Why so long? So now I actually have to buy the data recovery guy a 160Gb drive so he can copy the data from the old one to the new one. Then I can try sending the faulty drive in for warranty and get it replaced. Sometimes they don't even accept it if its been worked on by data recovery specialists! Anyway this will cost me about $800 this ordeal. Having a hard drive die is practically the second worst thing that can happen to your pc, short of #1 worst thing of electricity frying everything in your computer. I guess 1:1 backups of everything are expensive to get started, but they might save you a load of cash in the long run. I'm going to place my vote with WD but I've never used one of their drives. The seagate 120Gb was quite fast and I couldn't hear it at all. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 217837 | 2004-03-05 04:17:00 | Steve Askew suggested I update the thread :) Yesterday morning I bought a Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm drive from DSE to load Xandros onto, and it wouldnt partition or format properly. Back down to Lower HuttI & got it changed, lo and behold the replacement had a faulty boot sector, and that wouldnt boot :( I ran the Maxtor diagnostics and printed out the results to show it wasnt just finger trouble. Back down to Lower Hutt again. So I ended up with an 80GB Western Digital WD800, and that's running ok. So at this time I've gone right off Maxtor, even though I have 4 that are ok. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 217838 | 2004-03-05 05:30:00 | Ahaha - I can't hear my WD because it makes so much noise when NOT doing anything! And alas, I sooo can't be bothered. It was at the end of october last year, and I've moved on (*cries a river) |
Growly (6) | ||
| 217839 | 2004-03-05 08:22:00 | I've been useing a 120 gig Seagate SATA drive for a couple of months and have no complaints about it. I agree that if Sata has a speed advantage over Pata it is to small to notice. The big advantage of them (as far as I'm concerned) is that the narrow gutted cables don't interfere with the air flow and the comp definately runs cooler. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
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