About WD and seagate, I'm forming my own opinion...
October 12th, 2012, 7:49
My earliest harddrives are all maxtors, nothing particularly impressive, nothing particularly disappointing. Then in about 10 years ago, I bought my first seagate because maxtor was having its downs.
About 8.5 years later, seagate failed me for the first time (SMART fail). I wrapped it with an antistatic bag, locked it in my basement, and forgot all about it. Then I bought my first caviar green, and now it is starting to have minor, but potentially disastrous failures.
I bought a whole new 1TB caviar blue that I'm using now, this one changed my whole perspective. It is fast, it is stable, but it is loud and hot. So hot that I had to fix a fan for it.
Then quite by chance, I hooked my old seagate on my comp again. Viola, the smart all passed, scanned with hdtune, not a scratch. The seagate miraculously healed itself.
That is 10 freakin years people, (given 1.5 years to rest ) that is impressive. I refuse to consider seagate at first because of the firmware problem and the noise.
I'm not trying to bash WD here, I think WD has a very swift marketing strategy, and I love the green series because it's quite, it's cool and it's big, but hey, durability is a nerd's best friend. I have business corporations with WD before, I met their sales rep before as well as having phone conversation with the marketing director for US/Canada, (yep, they are that down to earth) all quite pleasant. But 10 years, that's just irrefutable. The seagate has gone right up in my category.
I know the sample probably is too small. So I wanna know what you guys think?
About 8.5 years later, seagate failed me for the first time (SMART fail). I wrapped it with an antistatic bag, locked it in my basement, and forgot all about it. Then I bought my first caviar green, and now it is starting to have minor, but potentially disastrous failures.
I bought a whole new 1TB caviar blue that I'm using now, this one changed my whole perspective. It is fast, it is stable, but it is loud and hot. So hot that I had to fix a fan for it.
Then quite by chance, I hooked my old seagate on my comp again. Viola, the smart all passed, scanned with hdtune, not a scratch. The seagate miraculously healed itself.
That is 10 freakin years people, (given 1.5 years to rest ) that is impressive. I refuse to consider seagate at first because of the firmware problem and the noise.
I'm not trying to bash WD here, I think WD has a very swift marketing strategy, and I love the green series because it's quite, it's cool and it's big, but hey, durability is a nerd's best friend. I have business corporations with WD before, I met their sales rep before as well as having phone conversation with the marketing director for US/Canada, (yep, they are that down to earth) all quite pleasant. But 10 years, that's just irrefutable. The seagate has gone right up in my category.
I know the sample probably is too small. So I wanna know what you guys think?
Re: About WD and seagate, I'm forming my own opinion...
October 16th, 2012, 16:19
I am in love with western digital, coz their drives started to bring me much more money than others. I believe this drives are №1 for most dr guys.
Re: About WD and seagate, I'm forming my own opinion...
October 16th, 2012, 17:25
DR-Kiev wrote:I am in love with western digital, coz their drives started to bring me much more money than others. I believe this drives are №1 for most dr guys.
Agree
Re: About WD and seagate, I'm forming my own opinion...
October 17th, 2012, 4:06
I also agree.
I also believe WD's RE* series are state of the art, whereas green's are plain garbage.
I also believe WD's RE* series are state of the art, whereas green's are plain garbage.
Re: About WD and seagate, I'm forming my own opinion...
October 17th, 2012, 5:16
seagate use to be good but they are cheaply made now
western digital green model total crap your lucky if it last a year
its hit and miss with drives
western digital not bad but had two caviar blue version fail with bad sectors
lost all movies as had crc error on the sector
no pro can recovery this at all
other western digital going strong
and also a maxtor drive i had for years working fine.
Samsung not bad still working after 2 years
western digital green model total crap your lucky if it last a year
its hit and miss with drives
western digital not bad but had two caviar blue version fail with bad sectors
lost all movies as had crc error on the sector
no pro can recovery this at all
other western digital going strong
and also a maxtor drive i had for years working fine.
Samsung not bad still working after 2 years
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