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1212062 2011-06-26 02:48:00 Going to get one but not sure what the latest is on brands. Ive always used WD and hated Seagate cos they gave me nothing but trouble. Samsung I've heard good things about.

Anything changed?

Cheers
hueybot3000 (3646)
1212063 2011-06-26 03:10:00 I have never had any issues with Seagate. YMMV DeSade (984)
1212064 2011-06-26 03:26:00 I used to swear by seagate 7-8 yrs ago(when the options were Maxdor, Quantum Bigfoots & WD's were hard to get and expensive), but now I usually go for WD and in recent years have only had 1 return. While talking with a supplier recently, they tell me they have more WD returns than Samsung. I have used Samsung a few times when WD's were out of stock and havent had any trouble with them, only comment I would make about them is that I think they sound a bit noisy.

Samsung Spinpoint 2Tb drives seem to be 5400rpm 32Mb cache where as the WD Caviar Black 2Tb is 7200rpm 64Mb cache. The WD drive should be the better drive of the two.
Hope that helps a bit. Cheers
Iantech (16386)
1212065 2011-06-26 04:00:00 Didn't Seagate buy Western Digital? Metla (12)
1212066 2011-06-26 04:06:00 Going to get one but not sure what the latest is on brands. Ive always used WD and hated Seagate cos they gave me nothing but trouble. Samsung I've heard good things about.

Anything changed?

Cheers

Going by Newegg Reviews on the most popular 2TB Hard drives it seems the Samsung is the best.

The Western Digital WD20EARS gets 46% 5-Stars
The Seagate ST2000DL003 gets 59% 5-Stars
The Samsung HD204UI gets 70% 5-Stars


Didn't Seagate buy Western Digital?

Not.... yet.
Agent_24 (57)
1212067 2011-06-26 05:01:00 Didn't Seagate buy Western Digital?
Samsung's HDD devision.
trinsic (6945)
1212068 2011-06-26 05:03:00 Western Digital are fine, just stay away from the BLACK editions, they have a large failure rate. wainuitech (129)
1212069 2011-06-26 09:51:00 Western Digital are fine, just stay away from the BLACK editions, they have a large failure rate.

+1

:pf1mobmini:
jareemon (5207)
1212070 2011-06-26 09:59:00 Hi Hueybot3000

Stay away from 2TB Seagate. Brought one last year. Nothing but trouble. Got it right from day one - the dreaded Seagate Click (www.youtube.com)!!

Seagate deny there is a problem with their drives but they can come around and hear mine if they like. Should have taken it back but I was living in hope, the drive would come right. It hasn't.

The actual drive works as it's suppose to most times but the click drives yah nuts. Ocassionly, it has click fits and nothing happens - just sits there and clicks.

In my opinion, (and that of owner's on other forums), Seagate's are crap.

BURNZEE
Burnzee (6950)
1212071 2011-06-26 10:03:00 Hi Hueybot3000

Stay away from 2TB Seagate. Brought one last year. Nothing but trouble. Got it right from day one - the dreaded Seagate Click (www.youtube.com)!!

Seagate deny there is a problem with their drives but they can come around and hear mine if they like. Should have taken it back but I was living in hope, the drive would come right. It hasn't.

The actual drive works as it's suppose to most times but the click drives yah nuts. Ocassionly, it has click fits and nothing happens - just sits there and clicks.

In my opinion, (and that of owner's on other forums), Seagate's are crap.

BURNZEE


My experience refutes this.
I own a total of 5 2TB Seagate drives and before I sold my last computer I owned 7 of them.

Never had a single problem with any of them.
DeSade (984)
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