Good makes for HDD these days

[PostmanPot]

So .11 series were an epic fail, now to reassure their customers, they have dropped to 3 yr warranties?

Next drive I buy is a Samsung. I'm waiting for 2TB drives to reach a nice pricepoint

Hmmm, they said it was because it was more in line with industry standards.

Yeah those 2TB WDs are looking nice, arriving soon...

 

[PostmanPot]

Did anyone factor idle temps in? postman pot's samsung looks good and IIRC my samsung was cooler too - i'll check tonight and post....

Yip - 10'C cooler then the one Seagate.

And all those drives are in the same rack behind a 120mm fan.

 

[foozball3000]

Seagate only had 2 faulty models... the plus side of that, all the other models, which b.t.w. is 100%, is super cheap because of people's insane fears.

 

[techead]

Why dont you go SSD?


$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Decotey]

Maybe your samsung drive is at the bottom of your array or closest to your case fan

 

[boramk]

My 20GB Samsung from 1999 still works fine. Seriously, get Samsung

 

[Peder]

I've had a 120GB sata die on me... so i am quite sure i won't be buying seagate to save my life for the next few years...

Edit sorry used Sata instead of seagate lol

 

[Keeper]

I've had a 120GB sata die on me... so i am quite sure i won't be buying sata to save my life for the next few years...

the fact that it uses SATA doesn't mean it went byebye, c'mon man IDE sucks - what brand was it BTW?

 

[Brawler]

I've had a 120GB sata die on me... so i am quite sure i won't be buying sata to save my life for the next few years...

eh?

 

[Peder]

the fact that it uses SATA doesn't mean it went byebye, c'mon man IDE sucks - what brand was it BTW?

eh?

Uhm...Guess...

Its a Seagate... sorry forgot to mention that

I am quite irritated with seagate because even though its only 3 yrs old they won't replace it.

And they Promised a million hours on a SATA... sounds like a lie to me!!!

 

[foozball3000]

Uhm...Guess...

Its a Seagate... sorry forgot to mention that

I am quite irritated with seagate because even though its only 3 yrs old they won't replace it.

And they Promised a million hours on a SATA... sounds like a lie to me!!!

Haha. My first SATA Seagate burst into black smoke when I booted up for the first time.
But I'm now running 3 Seagates...all perfect