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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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| 1386051 | 2014-10-13 03:27:00 | 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. Sounds a bit like the firmware fault they had a few years back - had a bad run as well with them at one stage, hence now use WD's mainly. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1386052 | 2014-10-13 04:03:00 | 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 Isn't that a Windows limitation? Unless you're using 64-bit Windows... |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1386053 | 2014-10-13 04:18:00 | I think it is yup UEFI. Only prob is I suppose you could disable UEFI but then the higher the capacity of the hdd, the more space you'll lose if you format it in MBR.. Since you have to format the hdd to GPT to use most of the hdd | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1386054 | 2014-10-13 04:24:00 | Isn't that a Windows limitation? Unless you're using 64-bit Windows... Bit of both -- Intersting Article support2.microsoft.com If the user intends to start the computer from one of these large disks, the system’s base firmware interface must use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and not BIOS. Referring to 2TB and above. |
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