WD, Seagate or Hitachi? Which is the best?

Check out toms interactive HD charts
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

What I find interesting about these "slow" seagate drives is their amazing transfer speeds.

An example.

Maximum Read Transfer Speed
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7200.8 Seagate 400GB = 70.6mb/s (ATA)
WD Raptor 74GB = 70.3mb/s (SATA)
7200.8 Seagate 400GB = 68.1mb/s (SATA)
Hitachi T7K250 250GB = 66.1mb/s (SATA)

Check the Average Read/Write performance. The only drives able to edge out the Seagate's are the WD Raptors. hmmmm :rolleyes:
 
Just checked my price lists, I don't believe I never noticed that Seagate offer a 5 year warrantee.

Regards the speed, I really don't think anyone would notice such a minor speed difference. They're probably slightly slower to make them more reliable (IMO).
 
Seagate is not the fastest drives.

I think if you want fast go for the WD Raptor or something in that class.
The Raptors also have a 5 year warranty.

I have a small 40Gb Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM Drive which by far is one of my fastest drives I own.
Just do not attach a capture card and run it 24/7 like I did. I use the capture card to store my CCTV surveillance files on my hard drive.
It lasted about 6 months before it died.

I am now using a 160GB Seagate and it has been running now about 1 year solid.

Edit. A 3.2GB Quantal Fireball which I handed down is still running and it worked hard in its day.
 
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In the 17 years I've been in computers, I've owned, sold and maintained drives from heaps of manufacturers - Seagate, WD, Miniscribe, Maxtor, Quantum, Fujitsu, Kaylok, etc.

I'n all that time, I can think of hardly any drive failures. I had a Seagate MFM 40MB that died after I used it on an RLL controller for too long at 60MB. I had a customer's Maxtor throw up SMART errors, and I replaced it without any data loss. I had a customer's Fujitsu die without warning - the well know problem they had that just about killed their drive business. My sister's Seagate 80GB that she got in her Japanese NEC PC is busy packing up - developing bad sectors.

Outnumbering all those had been the 4 and 9GB Compaq SCSI drive failures I've had on systems I support.

Other than that, none I can think of. Proportionally, I've had and sold more Quantums and Maxtors than other brands.
 
BTTB said:
Seagate is not the fastest drives.

I think if you want fast go for the WD Raptor or something in that class.
The Raptors also have a 5 year warranty.
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it's are not is, but no matter.

Raptors are very expensive though, whereas even the cheap Seagates have a 5 year warrantee. Although one could argue that it's pointless having anymore than a 3 year warranty. I know I've had RAM with a lifetime warrantee die, but I can't even remember where I bought it from and they're mostly PC133 SDRAM, so who's gonna swap it out anyway?
 
Claymore said:
In the 17 years I've been in computers, I've owned, sold and maintained drives from heaps of manufacturers - Seagate, WD, Miniscribe, Maxtor, Quantum, Fujitsu, Kaylok, etc.
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Sheesh, how gentle are you and your cilents with computers? I've only been in the PC game about 10 years, and I've seen probably about 30 or 40 drive crashes / controler chip failures / broken heads etc. etc., maybe more.

I've sent 7 drives in for data recovery and 4 of them were recovered at total cost of: R10 380.00
 
Carlhead said:
it's are not is, but no matter.

Raptors are very expensive though, whereas even the cheap Seagates have a 5 year warrantee. Although one could argue that it's pointless having anymore than a 3 year warranty. I know I've had RAM with a lifetime warrantee die, but I can't even remember where I bought it from and they're mostly PC133 SDRAM, so who's gonna swap it out anyway?
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Seagates are not the fastest drives, but reliable and carry a 5 year warranty. :)

BTW.
Warrantee=Warranty.
Anymore=Any more
Gonna= going to.

But no matter..:D
 
Carlhead said:
Just checked my price lists, I don't believe I never noticed that Seagate offer a 5 year warrantee.

Regards the speed, I really don't think anyone would notice such a minor speed difference. They're probably slightly slower to make them more reliable (IMO).
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from rectron capetown

reynard says:
hi the seagate's do they come with a 3year ot 5 year warranty ?
Graeme - Rectron CPT says:
5 year warranty, sir
reynard says:
danki
Graeme - Rectron CPT says:
np

I know I've had RAM with a lifetime warrantee die, but I can't even remember where I bought it from and they're mostly PC133 SDRAM, so who's gonna swap it out anyway?
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normally when something breaks with a lifetime/5year warranty I can't find my bloody invoices. hehhe
 
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Gurr said:
normally when something breaks with a lifetime/5year warranty I can't find my bloody invoices. hehhe
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Rectron are excellent in this regard. All sold items are recorded on their systems, so I've never had to show an invoice.
 
Carlhead said:
Sheesh, how gentle are you and your cilents with computers? I've only been in the PC game about 10 years, and I've seen probably about 30 or 40 drive crashes / controler chip failures / broken heads etc. etc., maybe more.
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I'm careful with my drives, generally, and most of my clients are home users who don't really move their PCs around. I still have memories of a friend losing a Miniscribe drive when it fell over (it was on edge on the desk, fell over, died).

Currently I run a 300GB SATA Maxtor (16MB cache), with a 200GB Maxtor external drive for backups and portability. Bought pretty much on the basis of value - decent performance, nice price.
 
Claymore said:
Rectron are excellent in this regard. All sold items are recorded on their systems, so I've never had to show an invoice.
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I will vouch for that.
One of the reasons I prefer to buy certain items from them.
You never have to worry about keeping Invoices.
I think any Supplier using that sort of bar code system can do pretty much the same thing.
 
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Claymore said:
Rectron are excellent in this regard. All sold items are recorded on their systems, so I've never had to show an invoice.
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Problem is only Dealers can take stuff back to rectron. This does not help the customer
 
Person said:
Problem is only Dealers can take stuff back to rectron. This does not help the customer
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Not a problem for me though - my customers go through me. But then, I'm just a small operation.
 
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