I did notice that Seagate has a 5 yr warranty vs 1 yr for WD.
The other Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Macy" <lmacy@phillymgclub.com>
To: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
Cc: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] OT - External hard drives
Interesting, as you said, there are a bunch of drives out there. But
my experience is the opposite. Ihave had several WD,s fail, on both
desktops and servers, but nary a single Seagate. That's over nearly 25
years with drives from a 10 MB (remember when those were 8" platters
and HUGE amounts of space?) to today's terabyte SATA & SAS drives.
Not saying your experiences are wrong, just different.
Larry
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On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:17 AM, "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
wrote:
>> Which brand is better - WD or Seagate?
>
> Both are pretty good. I have used hundreds of each of them. I tend
> to prefer WD for desktops and the high-end ST drives for servers. I
> feel that Seagate puts more into their high-end drives, but WD does
> a better bread-and-butter drive. In the early days of IDE, there
> were ST drives that could not establish a master/slave relationship
> with another identical drive... but I was able to make them work as
> a slave to a WD.
>
> As I said in my earlier post, every hard drive has moving parts and
> amounts to a timebomb waiting for the moment at which it can do you
> the most damage by crashing. The volume of WD drives out there is
> truly staggering. Yes, they will eventually fail, but I have had few
> failures of WD drives that were not due.
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