Best Internal HDD

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Wino

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My HDD has just crashed, luckily not my OS HDD. (Its 6 years old now)

What is considered to be the best internal HDD at the moment. I normally go for either WD or Seagate.

I see Take2 has a Seagate 1.5Tb for R 751-00

Cheers
 
Seagate puts the most cash into R&D and testing. Whether that results in superior drives is kinda disputed since the .11 debacle. Western Digital is also good. Samsung for best bang/buck.

The price you've got there looks decent.
 
HavocXphere said:
Seagate puts the most cash into R&D and testing. Whether that results in superior drives is kinda disputed since the .11 debacle. Western Digital is also good. Samsung for best bang/buck.

The price you've got there looks decent.
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I've heard of a few SAMSUNGS crashing?
Think I'll stick with either WD or Seagate.
 
Just remember for OS drive 7200rpm. But otherwise ditto to HavocX, Seagate used to be awesome but nowadays go for either WD if you can afford or Samsung.
 
I had only good luck with WD sofar, lost a couple seagate's last year so im back to WD. Still have to try Samsung though :)
I still have a 6 year old raptor 74gb running in my dad's rig without issues
 
Mostly down to luck for sure :) I've had Seagates, Samsungs, WDs, Maxtors and only 1 died - the old Maxtor. Granted it did live next to a big speak for most of its life. My old Seagate does sound like it's on it's way out but my 7200.12 and 2.5" are going strong, as are the WDs and Samsung.

I work in an environment where we service close to 8,000 machines, the majority being desktops which all use WDs. And they are definitely long lasting if I think of the small amount of faulty drives we deal with. No matter what brand you have there's a chance it will fail at any time - let lady luck be on your side.

We just shipped a R80,000 odd Dell machine to a customer - Dell fitted it with 4x 3.5" Seagate 7200.11's. Ouch!
 
It just passed through us, customer didn't want us to touch it so we weren't at liberty to poke around. Maybe the 3 year onsite warranty will come in handy.
 
South_Bit said:
It just passed through us, customer didn't want us to touch it so we weren't at liberty to poke around. Maybe the 3 year onsite warranty will come in handy.
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I suspect it will :D

Will the warranty cover recovering of the data though as usually the drive just gets swapped out and you lose the data if you don't have backups.
 
No the warranty won't cover any data recovery costs, not in this country. Perhaps in the States, not sure, but definitely not here. The funny thing is that this machine isn't even running any form of RAID, just 1 drive for the OS and the other 3 for storage (scientific simulations). Let's hope they are diligent backer uppers.
 
Anyone know who sells the Samsung HDDs mentioned above
 
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