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Thread ID: 138138	2014-10-11 01:23:00	Seagate or WD	Cato (6936)	PC World Chat

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1386041	2014-10-11 01:23:00	I'm looking at getting a 2tb dive, which of these would you guys recommend: www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz	Cato (6936)
1386042	2014-10-11 01:42:00	Personally I would get the WD. Two reasons: 1) I believe you can turn off the stupidly aggressive head parking "feature" with WDIDLE utility. 2) Marginally better distribution of positive reviews (and less bad ones) on Newegg. Better yet, buy one of each and have two copies of your data.	Agent_24 (57)
1386043	2014-10-11 03:09:00	Personally wouldn't use the WD Green unless its going to be for storage. They are a slower drive. Generally, blacks are for games/performance, blues are for standard users, greens are for storage, Reds are for NAS devices, Purples are for surveillance equipment systems. Greens from WD them Selves: Recommended use WD Green storage is tested and recommended for primary use in desktop and All-in-One PCs, as secondary storage for archiving, in external cases or as reliable backup storage. Full List: Click on each Drive to see what its recommend for: www.wdc.com	wainuitech (129)
1386044	2014-10-11 03:41:00	I don't have a preference brand wise, I use both. But of those I'd chose the seagate because they are the same price and it's a faster drive as Wainui pointed out. I have a lot of WD greens I use for storage, I rather like them. But generally I've bought them because they've been cheaper than faster alternatives. Seagate also have a green range.	dugimodo (138)
1386045	2014-10-11 04:21:00	I ended up with the Seagate simply because 7200RPM Baracuda sounds way awesomer than Green. (And because was a few bucks cheaper in another shop.)	Cato (6936)
1386046	2014-10-11 20:35:00	Good luck with it! I hope the head parking noise doesn't drive you insane...	Agent_24 (57)
1386047	2014-10-11 21:41:00	The machine makes so much noise, I wouldn't notice it! :badpc:	Cato (6936)
1386048	2014-10-13 00:06:00	Hi Cato, good day to you. As for your query, I would go ahead and choose the WD Green drive if I am in search for a pure storage which would save me some energy and also money. This is because the WD Green drive comes with power saving feature in it and works perfect as backup storage. On top of that, as wainuitech mentioned, you may check on each WD hard drive to find out more at the given link. The Seagate Barracuda could also be your choice if you're looking at an all rounder drive but my advice would be to pick your ultimate choice after considering both your budget and desire. Hope it helps.	raymond_wd (17293)
1386049	2014-10-13 02:44:00	I wouldn't touch Seagate. We've had a couple of customers come in recently with brand new Seagate drives, still unopened etc, wanting us to install/configure for them and we found that the drives were faulty! 1st customer took back the first one to where they bought it and got another brand new one and brought it back to us, we tested it and also faulty! They took back the 2nd one and got a third, also faulty! At this point we told them to get their money back. We also had a call from the store where they were getting them from and we told them to test the drives themselves and they'll see the problems. Had another customer come in also with a brand new unopened Seagate and tested and exact same fault. These were all tested using the latest Seagate SeaTools software and we thought surely there couldn't be this many brand new faulty drives, and maybe something else going on with our tests so we tested our own used Seagate drive (same make/model as the brand new ones) and it passed all the tests. Conclusion: Stay away from Seagate., at least for now, as there may be a bad batch or something.	CYaBro (73)
1386050	2014-10-13 03:24:00	Its worse if the hdd is over 2.2 / 3-4 TB. People on another forum I'm on, cant even install anything on these seagate hdd's. Unless their system supports UEFI. The only way you can use it is format it in GPT, but dont use it as a bootdisk One of the worst / hardest seagate hdds to install anything on (from what I've seen in this other forum), is the ST3000DM001 - 3 TB	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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