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Beetman

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Hi guys

I'm looking to invest in a 1.5TB hard drive for my Media center PC, I've lost fait in Seagate after the mess they had with the firmware problems.
So i was looking at Western Digital (link), but then i also noticed this Samsung (link) for almost R200 less.....

What would you guys recommend, rather stick with tried and trusted Western Digital or go for the Samsung or do you no of any deals that are even better?
 
That's a good price for the WD !! Been using WD for a while now in my HTPC, no problems.
 
:o Dis-engage mouth. Change foot. Renegage. :eek:

My bad guys. Seagate took over Maxtore not Western Digital. Sorry for the heart failures. :o

Given my first statement I don't think anybody would take my advice. :o But
I would recommend the Seagate Green drives. 5900rpm low power drives that are as fast as 7200rpm drives.
 
MadMailMan said:
:o Dis-engage mouth. Change foot. Renegage. :eek:

My bad guys. Seagate took over Maxtore not Western Digital. Sorry for the heart failures. :o

Given my first statement I don't think anybody would take my advice. :o But
I would recommend the Seagate Green drives. 5900rpm low power drives that are as fast as 7200rpm drives.
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hahaha,
cancel the newsflash!

rumour has it that all those Seagates that failed with the bad firmware were built in maxtor factories....
 
:D was about to do firmware update on my WD's :D

Can't vouch for the sammies 'cos I never owned one. My boet has one though and they are a tad slower than the WD. But for Media it won't really matter.
 
Beetman said:
rumour has it that all those Seagates that failed with the bad firmware were built in maxtor factories....
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Rumour can't be true. Firmware is not made in factories but at dev/engineering labs. The bad firmware had nothing to do with dicey factories - they jusdt blow in what labs give 'em.
 
Arthur said:
Rumour can't be true. Firmware is not made in factories but at dev/engineering labs. The bad firmware had nothing to do with dicey factories - they jusdt blow in what labs give 'em.
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okay, but still leaves me having a bit less faith in Seagates then before the balls up
 
I can vouch for Seagate and Samsung. I've owned a 40GB Samsung IDE drive and it's been running for ages perfectly. I now own a 250GB samsung. very quiet. Great performance but not as good as my Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.12 drive (The NEW series).

I would recommend a Seagate or Samsung but if you will get Seagate, go for the 7200.12 drives.
 
In the last 13 years I have managed a little over 12000 desktops and about 200 servers. Thats 12000 desktop hard drives and at least 600 server drives. I have hed the following "bad luck":

9 IBM Deskstars (Deathstars) go pop.
2 Fujitsu go pop (one SCSI server drive)
3 Western Digital
2 Seagate SCSI server drives and
1 Seagate 1TB Desktop drive about 2 weeks ago. Just happens to be my own personal drive from my NAS device. :mad:

It's taken me a couple days to build this list, had to go through a lot of old journals but there it is. The thing is by far the most common drives in all the machines I've managed are Seagate and the least common are the Deathstars and Fujitsus. To be far to the Fujitsus they were in the same IBM server and blew one day appart so it may have actually been the server hardwares fault. The WDs were personal drives, 2 were mine and the other belonged to a tjom. They were identical drives so that may have been a bad batch. The two Seagate server drives were from 2 different Dell PE 2400 servers and they went a bit dodge after our server aircon failed for a couple days and we had to use fans to try and circulate the air. :eek: But they only blew a couple weeks later but at more or less the same time.

Then there is the sad story of my NAS. A couple weeks ago I copied about 1.3TB of my movie collection to a external drive for a friend. I went to watch something on my media player and it couldn't read the NAS. This does happen from time to time so I went to restart the NAS and :sick: only one drive is visible by the NAS. :( :( :( :( Sent the drive to Seagate in Germany and my replacement arrives tomorrow morning via DHL.

Moral of the story? By the drive with the longest warranty. If the data is important, keep it on at leat 2 drives. If it's your p0rn collection, burn it to DVD and put it in the safe. :p
 
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