Seagate hard drives best?

I just got off the phone with a guy from the local PC repair shop. He had an answer for the external hard drive problem I wrote about in my post four days ago.

http://www.noobsters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18059

He told me to download diagnostic tool from Western Digital's website to see if I had bad sectors on my Western Digital external hard drive gone bad. Hopefully, he said, I would recover some of the data intact...and then he said BUY A SEAGATE.

Seagate. First I had a Maxtor external drive crap out on me, then a Western Digital drive six months later. Now I'm hearning that Seagate is the best. I'm losing a fair amount of money on these bad drives and tons of my data. So Noobsters - what's the verdict? Does Seagate make the best external hard drive on the market?

Were they the 4 or 500gb drives? A lot of people are finding severe quality issues with those. It's important to back up frequently if you're storing anything on those drives.

Were they the 4 or 500gb drives? A lot of people are finding severe quality issues with those. It's important to back up frequently if you're storing anything on those drives.

What would you suggest if you are using the drive for back up? Should we back up the back up? What you say about that!

My mind just exploded.

It's a 160Gb external drive from Western Digital. I'm having a bad day with my two PCs so any help is very much appreciated.

I just tried to download the diagnostic tool from Western Digital's website and my new PC locked up. It was a 4.2Mb download and it didn't even get started. Damn. But I did check on my warrenty status and I have another six months remaining on my limited warranty. Good thing I registered the drive when I bought it.

I am kicking myself in the ass for not backing up my previous data recover efforts on disk! Now I may well have to have the Western Digital drive submitted to data recovery for another $50 dollars. That's two dead drives now. I'm praying to the PC gods that I can get some of the data off the drive with the help of Western Digital's online tools.

Goddammit!

I would contact the manufactuer of both drives, see whst they can do for you (if anything). I would be surprised if they did nothing, and told you the life span of these drives are 6 months.
Or buy the exact same drive which failed, and take the back the broken one the next day. Start the swaping out game. As long as the upc is the same, it should be no problem.

checked out the warranty info fro WD hard dirves... external has 1yr ...more info ...here (http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#policy)

Phillemmons that's a damn good idea. Swap them out. Maybe I can copy the data from one onto the other and salvage something from this mess.

Hopefully they still carry this make and model. I'll have to check online. Thanks for the idea.

Anyone else got some suggestions?

Anyone else got some suggestions?

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2862/14478jc6.jpg

mmmmmm..... nugz.....mmmmmmm......PuFf

oh shit.....another dream..... :(

I don't know if the drives are any good, but I could hit Segates R&D center with a rock from my house/shittyapartment. The fuckers camp out all around my neighborhood in their gigantic fucking houses and plug up the roads with their damned SUVs. I hate them.

I've had every kind of drive made go bad at one time or another (Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, Fujitsu), I'll say this though, Western Digital was great with the warranty stuff. They sent me out new, "Special Edition" hard drives when two I had crapped out, the new ones were fine, and had way bigger caches than what I had originally. Seagate is worth mentioning too, for something they did for me. I bought a 'used' drive from a friend, old and out of warranty, it was full of bad sectors and stuff. So, I called Seagate to see what I could do, they gave an RMA, I sent the drive in, and they sent me out their latest, greatest bigass drive, FREE.

The best drives on the market are WD, the best internal drive one the market "by what the Magazines say" is the 750g seagate. I been running a 250g External WD for 5 years, and it still runs like a charm. I been running a 37g Raptor 10,000 rpm Internal WD for my O/S drive for 2 years and it started making a funny noise so I called them and they sent me a new 75g at no charge. They do have the best support, I love the 3 or 5 year warrenty's WD has. They said they didn't have a 37g to send me so they sent the 75g. Cool Company.

things to remember when buying hard drives.

if it's man made it will shit the bed,
humans make shit to break,
they make more money if it breaks and you have to replace it,
most people will never even think about warranty,
why get it warrantied with something thats gonna break

if your a man you will not backup everything
if your a woman you will not backup anything

you will lose data by design

get over it

learn how to recover shit from your hard drive

and diagnose your computer probs

this will save you time and money and the rest of us listening to whining
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Samsung's drives are pretty good. Read up on those too.

My Seagate is still kicking for what it is worth.

Hitachi has the new king of the Hood. It's a Deskstar 7K1000 1 tb hd.

Interface Serial ATA 3.0gbps

Capacity 1TB (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)

Platters 5

Heads 10

Cache 32MB

Rotational speed 7,200RPM

Transfer rate from surface 1070 Mb/sec

Transfer rate (interface) 300MB/sec

Rotational latency 4.17ms

Rated seek 8.5ms (read), 9.2ms (write)

Power (typical idle) 9W

Power (random R/W) 13.6W

Noise level (idle) 29dB

Noise level (seek) 32dB

Well i thought samsung were good until one crapped out on me, there goes everything i know about HDD. Also kicking da machine wen its not working isnt good for da HDD also :bluntsmile:

I've had a Seagate SATA drive, 120GB, since SATA was introduced, not a single issue yet.

I have to say that I've had decent luck with drives. I've had two major drive failures. One was an extremely old drive, that had I been watching the SMART parameters, I would have known it was to crash.

The other failed after I managed to knock the unpowered, unplugged system over. Replacing the power supply no less (swapping PSs).

Considering that West. Digital has cut the warrantee period down, I'm staying away from them now.