Seagate vs Western Digital

[timothykaine]

I always see about a dead heat in people's preference between Western Digital hard drives and Seagate's.

Seagate lovers boast the silence and speed.

Western Digital lovers boast the long warranty and long life.

Let's see the numbers, who do you love?

[bsm2001]

Never had a problem with Maxtor at all.

[blackbelt_jones]

I have one of each, and I like em both fine. I picked Western Digital because of an old 12 Gigabyte Western Digital hard drive that I had for years. My brother gave it to me and it had been on three or four computers before I got it, and I put it on three more computers before finally frying it just a few months ago.

[retsaw]

I bought a 160GB SATA Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 when building my box, and have been happy with it, it certainly is quiet and fast, so I recently purchased a 250GB IDE version to upgrade my dad's Sky+ box (for those who don't know it's a combined satellite receiver and PVR), and the drive is quiet enough to be unnoticable. I've also got an old 40GB IBM Deskstar that has worked well for me for the past 5-6 years (I can't actually remember when I bought it, but it cost about £125 in the UK, if anyone can use the price to date it). There is also a Maxtor in my Dad's Dell that has been working fine since he bought it 2.5 years ago.

[jailbreaker]

I like seagate :D

[raz0rblade]

I like my Hitachi SATA drive. :)
Quiet and fast. :D

[hard candy]

Maxtor, baby, Maxtor. I also have one each of a Seagate and Western, they all work equally well.
These are all ide, SATA is too expensive compared to IDE.

[leonpmu]

I have been a tech for far too long..... Western Digital ANY day, Seagate were good at one stage, their SCSI drives are great, but IDE's fail hopelessly, they use cheap glue which melt when you push them too hard and fmelts all over the platters....

Hitachi/IBM are aewsome got three of their laptop drives, rock solid stuff!!

Unfortunatley Maxtor appear to be going down the same road as Seagate, their drives are failing hopelessly now, had three crash in one week!!! :mad:

[Parcival]

I buy whatever they have cheapest in the store I walk in. I still have a Fujitsu drive laying around somewhere. :)

[hard candy]

That reminds me, this is how involved I get with computers. My daughter asks me, "Can I go for a drive?". I replied, "How many GB's are you going to get?" She was talking about automobiles. :eek:

[tecknophreak]

From what I've heard/read, Western Digital drives(IDE) are prob the best in that group. I used Maxtors before, they were cheap, and it showed.

As far as the sound quality, I hardly ever hear anything over some of the equipment in my lab, or the music I'm listening to, so i don't take that into effect.

[dannybunkins]

I prefer Western Digital But I'll Take whatever I can get

[soulestream]

i gotta go with maxtor too. good/cheap drives



soule

[JayMan8081]

I have to go with Western Digital. I had previously had three drives from them. I just built a new rig 6 months ago and went with Seagate. Wish I hadn't. It was the cheapest SATA drive available. It's loud. I have a P4 Prescott with a GeForce 6800 so I have plenty of fans cranked up and I still can hear the hard drive as the loudest component in my case. Definitely will never stray from Western Digital again.

[blackbelt_jones]

I also picked WD cause the name Seagate reminds me of that twit on "American Idol".

[IsaacKuo]

I used to just buy whatever would get me the biggest storage for the smallest buck. This is brought a lot of brands by me along the way, and so far Seagates are the only ones with a perfect record; all other brands I've tried so far have had at least one hard drive death.

My experience with Western Digitals has been a lot more spotty. For instance, I have two 100gig WDs of the exact same model bought at the same time from the same CompUSA. One is pretty quiet; the other one sounds like a Concorde. Seagates seem more consistent to me, but I make sure to vet any particular Seagate lines with the SilentPCReview crowd before buying.

My personal experience and my desire for relative quietness make me prefer Seagates over Western Digitals.

And Maxtors? Never again. Never.

[gehidore]

WD's for my IDE's and SG's for my SCSI's...

[rocketpcguy]

prefer seagate, quiter and never failed me so far.

[plainzwalker]

Well...in the 10 years that I've owned/built my own computers I've only had 2 hd's die completely on me. Both were WD. 1 was replaced since it died about a month before the warranty ended and the other died about 4years after I got it. My Maxtor drive I bought 8yrs ago is still kicking, and so far I haven't had too many problems with my Desktar. So I'd prolly say anything BUT WD for my hd's from now on.

[Fryguy8]

seagates have a longer warranty, are quieter, and in general have a much lower failure rate, especially on drives greater than 160gb.

Western digitals are slightly faster, but not to an extent that it should matter, especially if you are just doing archiving.

I use a Western Digital raptor for my primary drive (where speed is important, plus it's 10k rpm), and I use seagates as storage drives.

[bigmac99]

I normally buy whatever is on sale, so I have had WD, Seagate, and Maxtor drives.

a little off topic: can I run IDE and SATA drives at the same time in my machine? (specs below)

Charles

[plainzwalker]

Originally posted by bigmac99
I normally buy whatever is on sale, so I have had WD, Seagate, and Maxtor drives.

a little off topic: can I run IDE and SATA drives at the same time in my machine? (specs below)

Charles

yessiree

[JoeyJoeJo]

I have a bias agains WD. Once while working at a small computer repair shop I had to do an RMA to replace a WD hard drive that died in a computer we built. So I did the RMA, got the drive, put it in and low and behold, the click of death. After a little fiddling I finally got it to stop clicking. To my suprise, it booted into Windows 98. When it came up, it was not just Windows 98, but traditional Chinese windows 98. Thanks alot WD.

[blight]

WD's are allways on sale here in kansas
I got 2 160gig drives for 120$ after rebates and, a 120gig for 50$.
so really that all I use.

I have a maxtor 40gig and a WD 160 in my case and the maxtor has to have 2 fans on it at all times while the WD sits there nice and cool just doing its thing.

[psych-major]

When I worked in IT at a small bank, I got tired of replacing all of the WD drives that shipped in a batch of about 175 PC's. Most of them failed under warranty, but warranties don't help bloody knuckles or lost data. I swore I would never put one in my personal system and so far I have stuck with that.

I have also inherited a couple of Maxtors along the way that seem to work well.

My first hard drive ever was a Seagate 1.2 gig unit that is still running in a friend's PC to this day.