Wd 2tb Hdd

[nevermind1534]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344

Anybody plan on getting one when newegg has them back in stock?

[Zephik]

Not until it becomes cheaper. Until then...

1TB WD Black + 1TB WD Black in RAID for $260. Although you could drop the price down to $220 by going Green. But I trust the Blacks more than the Greens, so far anyways.

Now, having two 1TB WD RE3's in RAID would be friggin' sweet! But at a cost of $380. ><

[Quakken]

It's too expensive, you could buy 2 1.5 TB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337) drives and pay less. But I like the fact that progress is happening. 2TB on a single drive is completely ridiculous.

Why, back when I was kid the biggest drive that existed for 40GB, and we had to watch standard definition television.

[crenn]

I'll get the 2TB seagate drives when they come out. Replace these 1TB drives and maybe a couple of the 320GB drives I have ;)

[nevermind1534]

There's been problems with the 1.5TB Seagate drives.

[Zephik]

There's been problems with the 1.5TB Seagate drives.

I've always had problems with Seagate drives. Its funny how that works. Some people swear by them, while others would choose to swear at them.

But I think in the end the reviews speak for themselves. They're both excellent brands with WD just slightly in the lead. Seagate averages 4/5 stars on newegg, whereas Western Digital averages 5/5 stars on newegg.

(From newegg; WD has 14 Hard Drives with perfect reviews with at least 15 reviewers per hard drive, whereas Seagate only has 3 with at least 15 reviewers per hard drive.) (**any hard drive with less than 15 reviews was not counted**)

[billygoat333]

Why, back when I was kid the biggest drive that existed for 40GB, and we had to watch standard definition television.

We used to have a computer with no hard drive (tandy 1000 ftw! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000)), and I remember when we got our first computer with one, @ 386 @ 33mhz with a 100mb hard drive. thing had a turbo button and everything. those were the days... dos & windows 3.1! lol

[SXRguyinMA]

check out Dead Harddrive (www.deadharddrive.com), lots of Seagate issues. I cam eacross that site after my 500GB seagate PCB crapped out. Its got a 5-yr warranty,. but it doesnt cover data recovery :down:

they carge REDICULOUS money to recover it too. Seems it should be free. :think: Their drive crapped out, my stuff is stuck on it. They should get my stuff off their broken drive for free :evil:

But I managed to find a guy that I can get a new PCB from for less than $100USD shipped :D so I'll do that, get my crap off, then send it in for warranty.

[crenn]

Drives can fail for any number of reasons, I've had some of my seagate drives for almost 2 years now, still working fine. It's pot luck. As for data recovery, it shouldn't be covered under the warranty, the only exception is is the 7200.11 drives which had firmware which caused them to fail.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

check out Dead Harddrive (www.deadharddrive.com)

From everything I can tell, Seagates are either really good or really bad. Seems like they had a bad batch of 'em based on "My main Seagate 80gig hard drive" from that site - my 80 gig Seagate failed after five or six months of fairly gentle use. Meanwhile, my 20-gig WD (which I also suspect was part of a bad batch) made it three years in a hot case; my 160 and 250 GB WDs are running beautifully.

(Do Seagate still require you to RMA your dead drive in "two-inch thick foam rubber"? I got mine in an antistatic bag in a box of peanuts; I sure wasn't gonna take my chances for a $50 hard drive... so I just got a WD.)

Everyone's experiences are different, it seems.

Say, how are Hitachi and Samsung these days, anyway?

[The boy 4rm oz]

Samsung Spinpoint F1's FTW!!!. Don't those new 2TB WD drives only run at 5400rpm anyway?

[SXRguyinMA]

my old 40GB drive is a WD, its lasted me well over 5 or 6 years already and still goin strong :up:

[nevermind1534]

Samsung Spinpoint F1's FTW!!!. Don't those new 2TB WD drives only run at 5400rpm anyway?

It says 7200 RPM. I'd have to say that I trust WD about the most for new drives. But i have a 20 year old quantum that's still going strong.

[crenn]

Do Seagate still require you to RMA your dead drive in "two-inch thick foam rubber"?
Yes they do, my friend has told me that he's RMAed drives with bubble wrap and an anti-static bag.

[NightrainSrt4]

Don't those new 2TB WD drives only run at 5400rpm anyway?

AFAIK the new 2TB drives use IntelliPower which allegedly adjusts rotational speed for a balance between power usage and performance. From what I've heard though is that it is just pretty much a 5400RPM drive, but WD didn't want the stigma involved with the old 5400RPM drives.

But even at 5400RPM, the data density makes up for the slower rotational speed. High density 1Tb 5400RPM drives have been pumping out similar if not better numbers than the old 10k Raptors afaik. When you've got more data crammed into the same space you don't have to spin as fast to get the same throughput. Latency might be a bit higher, but that's to be expected, and not really noticeable irl performance, especially in a drive designed for storage.

[EspoNation]

it has a 32mb cache on the drive, but i would say it would probably be better to run them in raid so that they can buffer the trasnfers quicker, 2tb is alot to search on just 32mb :). i would buy the WD one anyday over the seagate, had a seagate drive but i just seem to happier with the WD.