Hard Drive Recommendations Please
 

I want to buy a couple of external hard drives. Have narrowed it down to Seagate or Western Digital but cant decide on a model. Anyone have any recommendations? Anything you've been using thats been particularly reliable.

I've always had good luck with Seagate.




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we have had 20 servers running non stop from january 2008, with only 2 dead drives.
THAT should speak for itself.
Seagate 1TB and 1.5TB drives.

Ohh and i should mention that this is HD encoding servers so under constand stress

Edit: 4-6 drives pr server to give you a better idea

I've had a WD fail on me after 4 months. Stick with seagate.

Go for Seagate. I had 2 WD 400GB HDs break down just after a few months.

I have Transcend for some time now!
Works great!

Seagate has a better warranty, but I've seen a lot of their drives die lately. Never seen a WD drive die.

I have an external WD Passport drive, it rocks.

had one of those and it broke
then I had Seagate and it broke too
now I have Maxtor Black Armor with 5year warranty :)
still works fine :)

Exactly. I'm so surprised people here are all over Seagate as they have a VERY bad rep the past couple years for their horrible firmware(caused HDD's to fail) and bad CusService.
Western Digital 4 lyfe.
No really, WD has ALWAYS been good to me. I've had SeaGates die before.

Seagate owns Maxtor. You probably bought the same HDD, lol.

Go with a deskstar LOL jk

stick with seagate

Oh snap, classics. I still have a DeskStar. It's a 4GB.

Well back in the day they were known as the ibm deskstar i called them deathstars as in they were the biggest POS ever developed almost as bad as ECS motherboards now deskstars are made by Hitachi but im still to scared to go anywhere near them :helpme

Maxtor was good years ago, western digital was to however more WD have died in our data center then any other brand, seagate has been good for the past year and I will stick with it for now.

As you can see by the replies so far in this thread everyone has their horror stories about a specific brand and there's no real consensus.

Apart from the serious firmware issue with the Seagate 7200.12 drives I don't think there's been any major quality control issues with any manufacturer lately. They're all pretty much the same.

BTW, Seagate have changed back to 3 year warranties for consumer drives.

I have an 8.4GB deskstar but I think both of those drives would have been well before the deathstar period...

I have a 60GB deskstar which turned into a deathstar recently when I plugged it in to see if it still worked. :1orglaugh click clack zzziiiippp click clack zziiiip

Found the 8.4GB and plugged it in for fun... it sounds like I live next door to a butcher and he's cutting up meat with a bandsaw. Raw read speed is 7.5Mbytes/sec. :1orglaugh

I am another Seagate fan.