Opinion: Seagate or Western Digital

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Some advice please people :-)

WD has released a 2TB drive. My question is, what is your opinion of Western Digital versus Seagate.

I haev always used Seagate as it was cheaper, but ALAS, I have lost quite a bit of information when various Seagate drives crashed (see previous posts). To date, probably 1.5TB worth of stuff GONE!

stick with seagate or change to WD?

and, yip, i have a need for a couple of these drives :-)
 
I will never use seagate again my life, 2 dead 1tb hdd's are not so much as an offer to recover data.

WD without doubt now. Seagate has never been that much cheaper but they were solid for sure now they are shocking and you don't know which batch will defective, 500, then 1tb now the 1.5tb.

Rubbish steer well clear of them i rate.
 
I am very wary of Western Digital (had major issues with them in the past (think 120mb+ drives).

Seagate was king, but their standing is being shaken by the fact that they have reduced their warranties from 5 years to 3 years. Not sure what that is all about (probably costing them too much for RMA's)
 
No i only ever bought seagate but wow when you have 3 1tb hdd's in 6 months and you cannot get a credit it starts to make you angry, why not recall the bad stock?

For me they have a left a very bad taste in my mouth, car companies would recall thousands of cars if there was a major problem, seagate ignore the problem, then deny it, then release firmware which does more bad than good.

Sorry but for me seagate is dead as a hdd supplier forever. The only reason i have this 1tb is because i could not get another drive but i bought a WD 1tb for when this when packs up again in the next 2-16 weeks and i can swop it for the 4th time.
 
It will be a looooong time before I ever trust Seagate again. They had a massive problem with the firmware in a lot of their drives and denied it until exposed by the users. Putting their customers data at risk like that makes me very wary of them.

Western Digital all the way for now.
 
I was a die hard Seagate man. Their 5 year warranty was industry leading. For them to be dropping this to three years shows they are going through a bad patch. It happens to us all. I will buy them again when they decide they are back up to the 5 year quality mark. Till then, it's between Samsung (quite/cool) and the newer WD- some of the black editions have 5 year warranties... The Green Drives are also appealing. For the sake of ~R100 I would get something that will last- cutting corners to save a few bucks is not an option for data:eek:

Try to buy at the best GB/Rand mark- it might pay you to have 2x1TB drives rather than 1x2TB... Power & space requirements come in here too.
 
I always bought Seagate, after my drives died this year I switched over to WD. Am very happy with WD, but if I need to buy another HDD in 2 years time or say, I might concider a Seagate also then, but not now.

But I agree, the integrity of your data is the important thing here, so after losing allmost all my data with a Seagte I'll be VERY weary of buying one again soon.
 
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WD is cool..two Seagates died on me..and with them went my stuff.
 
Budza you know what i agree with bad things happen, its more a matter of how you react when it happens, you don't ignore, you recall the stock, you tell your major buyers to issue credits so their clients can buy different stock or manufacturers.

You don't deny it.

Sorry but this can happen to any company the way they have handled it leaves me with no confidence at all to trust them again.
 
I had 2 WD's die on me in the last years.
Have got 3 Seagates and no issues.

Depends on the luck of the draw.
You can expect at least 15 out of every 1000 HDD's from any manufacturer to be flawed (read that once, long ago).
 
I know that Seagate had bad issues with the 1TB, 1.5TB and a few other 7200.11 drives. However, the flawed firmware that shipped on the drives is at fault, not the quality of the drives themselves. This of course, doesn't excuse Seagate in any way for their after-sales service, etc, just wanted to make a point. If you've got a 7200.11 drive, with the correct firmware, you should have no more likelihood of problems than any other comparable drive.

That said, Western Digital does indeed have some very nice high-performing drives, however I do also find that they're always notably more expensive. And, Seagate has done an excellent job on their new 7200.12 series. 500GB per platter, and faster in sequential read/write than some Raptors :) .
 
Alf i have seagate's die on me as well, but when you know there isa major flaw in a batch you recall it and refund the money. You do not ignore it and buy yourself time while driver after drives fails and the only way you get to find this out is when your bios is gone.

raptor's don't have a much higher read/write than your average 7200, the speed come they access files on your pc, then you know why you spent money ona raptor :).
 
killadoob said:
Alf i have seagate's die on me as well, but when you know there isa major flaw in a batch you recall it and refund the money. You do not ignore it and buy yourself time while driver after drives fails and the only way you get to find this out is when your bios is gone.

raptor's don't have a much higher read/write than your average 7200, the speed is in they access files on your pc faster than the 7200rpm by a mile.
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Yup, that they should do.
Fortunately mine weren't in that batch according to their website.

There HDD software is also quite nice.
 
Ratwiz said:
I know that Seagate had bad issues with the 1TB, 1.5TB and a few other 7200.11 drives. However, the flawed firmware that shipped on the drives is at fault, not the quality of the drives themselves. This of course, doesn't excuse Seagate in any way for their after-sales service, etc, just wanted to make a point. If you've got a 7200.11 drive, with the correct firmware, you should have no more likelihood of problems than any other comparable drive.
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so, if the faulty firmware slipped through their quality control and testing, then it is very likely that some other kind of fault could slip through. Next time it could be their spindles or their platters or the read heads... and are they also then going to take six months to acknowledge there is a problem?

No, thanks... you can use them. I value my data too much to take that chance on such slipshod business sense.
 
The most glaring admission of inferior quality is the downgrade from 5 to 3yrs warranty. Who does that? Until they are prepared to back their products, I for one will buy my drives elsewhere.
 
Garyvdh said:
so, if the faulty firmware slipped through their quality control and testing, then it is very likely that some other kind of fault could slip through. Next time it could be their spindles or their platters or the read heads... and are they also then going to take six months to acknowledge there is a problem?

No, thanks... you can use them. I value my data too much to take that chance on such slipshod business sense.
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On the other hand, after that happened, they will need to make bloody sure it never happens again.
So, may be that they have improved their controls since then.
 
what the, i know its a seagate vs WD thread but Nobody interested in Samsung here?

They are damn quiet and i've never had one pack up on me before.

and yea, i'll never buy a seagate again.
 
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