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| Thread ID: 101730 | 2009-07-24 22:28:00 | Hard Drive reliability or lack of? | minster (9180) | Press F1 |
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| 794994 | 2009-07-25 00:40:00 | Minster:- Suffice to say that if I wanted a new Hard drive for myself or others I would go get a Seagate. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 794995 | 2009-07-25 00:42:00 | Thanks for the replies:) So in light of all of the above, what would you all do? Newish pc, putting in a new hard drive ... Seagate or Western Digital?? Good warrantees on both but I prefer reasonable reliability:) |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794996 | 2009-07-25 00:45:00 | Minster:- Suffice to say that if I wanted a new Hard drive for myself or others I would go get a Seagate. 1 point for Seagate .. I personally would go Western Digital:thumbs: |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794997 | 2009-07-25 00:48:00 | Just put a WD blue into my backup comp 3 weeks ago and is going good so far | gary67 (56) | ||
| 794998 | 2009-07-25 01:21:00 | I would go for either a Western Digital Black 32MB cache harddrive or Samsung Spinpoint 32MB cache harddrive. Any harddrives that I have that are giving me problems I get rid of as fast as I can so my system stays up and running and is safe,I dont want to loose my OS,movies,music,games,etc and have to start all over again!!!:horrified:D |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 794999 | 2009-07-25 01:32:00 | I was told that Seagate have had a "Bad batch' of HDD's out recently. I had two 32GB ones new - one failed to start from unwrap, so I took it back to Friendly Computers and they happily exchanged both for Western Digital units, same capacity. He remarked that he had had a couple of short life ones recently, but the DOA was a new trick to him. i have always been a rabid Seagate fan, I have a few older ones that are still humming sweetly after 7 years, and quite a few 5 YO ones. no problems until this latest event. When I needed another 500GB drive last week, Seagate was not on the shopping list, I got a Samsung. I must say that I have never heard of anyone having trouble with Seagate's warranty procedure. |
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