Hard drives

[GnomeWizardd]

Thinking of getting a new Sata 3.0 Hard drive wondered what brand most of u use and why since it been a LONG time since i got a new HD

[TheHeartSmasher]

Western Digial and Seagate, but Western Digial is my prefered harddrive.

[Thrax]

Seagate/WD.

[Kwitko]

WD mostly.

[Vicar]

Try the 500 Gb Samsung HD501LJ Spinpoint T.

The review is also good.

All the best

[edcentric]

Seagate, 5 yr war. did it for me.

[GrayFox]

WD and seagate.

WD in the workstations, Seagate in the servers.

[Leonardo]

Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, WD, Toshiba, Maxtor

in order of preference (and yes, I run all those brands)

[muddocktor]

Seagate, Western Digital for 3.5" drives

Seagate, Hitachi for 2.5" drives


Gotta love that 5 year warantee that comes with all Seagate drives. :D

[yagga]

More aggreeing opinions ~ WD/Seagate

I would choose price before brand between these two. I would consider Maxtor, but at the same price nada, and even slightly less, nada.

I *think* in my experience WDs are slightly quieter when seeking than Seagate, but then again I've also gotten a consistant higher tone wine at idle from a 320gb WD I have, so... I'm quite torn between the two. Since WD is the smaller company, with the fine raptor, I generally would choose them, but then again Seagate had the mammoth sized drives, and "NS" Enterprise Drives at that nice 750gb size. Seagate also has a factory here about 9 minutes from home, not that you would care, but it gets me thinking. Toughy.

[athalonhead]

Seagate-- Great warranty ---I have a 7200.7 in my socket A computer-dosent make any noise -- and a 7200.9 in my 939 computer-I can hear it seeking sometimes.
I plan on sticking with seagate but I see western digital as a close second.---Maxtor--I have read to many posts about them failing to trust them even though seagate owns them now.

[Zuntar]

I am truly a fan of WD HHDs, but I would Snag on a good 7200.10 seagate deal as well.

[mtrox]

So you guys keep mentioning the Seagate warranty, do they just give you a new drive or do they go further?

[Leonardo]

do they just give you a new drive or do they go furtherNew drive. The superiority of Seagate's warranty is that retail hard drives are fully backed by Seagate for five years - yes, FIVE, not one year like the competition. Gotta be careful though: the OEM drives are warranteed only for the industry standard of one year.

[Vintage86]

Seagate = 5 year warranty