help to choose a harddisk

[pemi]

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?

[dobrevjetser]

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

[pemi]

thanks a lot, i'll choose the wd

[pemi]

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?

[dobrevjetser]

Hi Pemi,

I have no experience with the warranty period. Sorry.

Dobre

[bnice]

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.

[Data Wugui]

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

[bnice]

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

[CK]

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!

[rchadwick]

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

[guru]

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hddguy]

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!!