I need a new hdd and i have a small question. I found that western digital has 36 months warranty while seagate 60 months. Are seagate hdds better?

Seagates are the worst you can buy for the moment.
3 out of 4 harddisks that come in for recovery are Seagates.

WD, Hitachi or Samsung would be a better choice.

Dobre

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thanks a lot, i'll choose the wd

and a second question, from your experience, if the hdd has a bigger warranty is it usually worse? I mean is this a way to mask the quality deficiences?

Hi Pemi,

I have no experience with the warranty period. Sorry.

Dobre

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It may have nothing to do with quality difference vs warranty. Think of seagate take over of maxtor, maxtor workforce are now maxtor-seagate intergrated. Maxtor hds always crap = seagate drives are now same crap.

Personally I think Hitachi hdd is not so good, I like western degital

60 months is a good marketing ploy, bigger warranty than the rest. Many new seagte customers will see this, as value for money.

How are Seagate still profitable and in business when they are shipping such poor quality drives? Some of their drives have a 5 year warranty. Based on the volume of units that we see for DR purposes, I guess a large percentage of their drives are being sent back for RMA within warranty period. So, they sell a unit for X amount of dollars which covers R&D, Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing, etc etc. They receive a large percentage of units back through warranty claims, which adds costs for RMA handling, shipping + cost of another disk + remanufacturing or scrappage of the failed unit.

Not a good business model!

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No, it's not. About a year or so ago, I bought their stock. I'm kicking myself now....

Thinks about it.. If your 40GB Seagate drive dies after 4 years warranty are you really going to want to use a 40GB drive when there's 2TB drives for $40 ? :O)

Sometimes you get lucky and they may send you a nice shiny 160GB instead LMAO

Anyway. the latest Seagate's are total "SH1T" made of paper........

Bring back the ST4096 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Personally I base a good disk on how often it fails or how easy or hard it is to recover. I would love to have a 2.5" Toshiba and a MAxtor Athena

Nowadays I prefer a Seagate Barracuda. I tend to avoid Western Digitals!!