Samsung vs Seagate HDD'S

I have to agree with JUGGY on this one.

There is no reason not to trust Samsung HDDs, while Seagate recently released UNTESTED crap to suppliers.
Seagate used to be great, but they've unfortunately made this one massive mistake.

A lot of people lost years of data because of this, so remybfg10k doesn't know what they're talking about.
I've owned both Seagate and Samsung and Western Digital drives.

The new Seagates sound like airplanes compared to the Samsung and WD HDDs
I'm actually selling my Seagate 1.5TB to get another 1.5TB WD
 
AirWolf said:
The hardware bargains thread was being derailed over this discussion. So why start a new thread on this topic, when one already exists?
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Because the bulk of the thread was discussing price, which is kinda irrelevant two years on. If you take price out of it, sure, and we've since had another price comment :)
 
Frag said:
I have to agree with JUGGY on this one.

There is no reason not to trust Samsung HDDs, while Seagate recently released UNTESTED crap to suppliers.
Seagate used to be great, but they've unfortunately made this one massive mistake.

A lot of people lost years of data because of this, so remybfg10k doesn't know what they're talking about.
I've owned both Seagate and Samsung and Western Digital drives.

The new Seagates sound like airplanes compared to the Samsung and WD HDDs
I'm actually selling my Seagate 1.5TB to get another 1.5TB WD
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They? As in plural? Damn man i'm not even going to try start a discussion with you.

I have 6TB at the moment, all seagate, not one issue at all.

i've had connor, ibm, hitachi etc, luckily i've never had a .11 Seagate drive, still for the worlds leading manufacturer of drives, a hiccup or two can be expected. Ask Toyota. :D
 
kayvee said:
Because the bulk of the thread was discussing price, which is kinda irrelevant two years on. If you take price out of it, sure, and we've since had another price comment :)
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:o Granted I didn't take the time to read the posts in the thread - I just went on heading - the thread has continued on quality a bit :p.
 
remybfg10k said:
They? As in plural? Damn man i'm not even going to try start a discussion with you.

I have 6TB at the moment, all seagate, not one issue at all.

i've had connor, ibm, hitachi etc, luckily i've never had a .11 Seagate drive, still for the worlds leading manufacturer of drives, a hiccup or two can be expected. :D
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Your nick may represent a horde... Who knows what that is.

I've also had quite a numerous amount of HDD's, and YES! 5 years ago Seagate was the leading manufacturer.
Currently their drives are noisy, use much more power (for the same rpm drive), yet costs almost the same as WD.

remybfg10k said:
Ask Toyota. :D
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Seagate's "mishap" would be easier to compare to Toyota making a mistake that kills 60% of their occupants.

I've seen lots of people move to new systems, bought a couple of Seagate HDDs, backed-up important data on TWO drives, then lost both almost simultaneously, along with all their data.

Google HDD comparison charts and read up before bashing Samsung drives..
 
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Well I will chip in on topic this time ;)

Nothing wrong with Samsung drives in my experience, I have a couple of 1TB's humming along so to speak, without any issues, and yes they run nice and quietly.

And I have a 4.3 GB circa 1999 on a Win98SE PC which forms the control to an industrial machine which is still in almost daily service, it still boots up and runs like clockwork. Yes, I do have a replacement lined up for it when it decides it's had enough.
 
I've been burend badly with the seagate drives.
Will most likely never buy one again. Samsung or Hitachi.
 
.Froot. said:
Well considering that Seagate does produce the best harddrives on the market and your prices are damn expensive, I still opt for Seagate. I can get that same Seagate drive for R900 including vat.
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Dude, frontosa is selling that 750GB for R630.32 incl. vat

seagate barracuda 7200.11 st3750330as , 750gb, sata3G , 7200rpm, 32mb cache - 3 years warrenty
 
Cameronsmith63 said:
Dude, frontosa is selling that 750GB for R630.32 incl. vat

seagate barracuda 7200.11 st3750330as , 750gb, sata3G , 7200rpm, 32mb cache - 3 years warrenty
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Dude, read the thread already.

Those are 2 year old prices you are quoting out of time context.

See what I mean, AirWolf?
 
I'm adding a new manufacturer to the mix, Hitachi.

1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C - R 569

Comparable Samsung is R671
Comparable Seagate is R682

Any experiences with Hitachi ?

So what must I go for ?
Will be using it with a Mede8er
 
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