Seagate vs Western digital? Im thinking of buying an external 500gb hard drive (portable) but im not sure which is better?
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I have long been a Seagate user, in part because I live in Brazil and both their distribution and support here are excellent, reputable and well-established for many years. My home desktop PC has two Seagate HDDs and I never had any problems with them or their other Seagate predecessors. However, Seagate has been having one serious problem after another in the last couple of years, with many "bricked" HDDs due to serious firmware flaws and other issues. Not only that, it has denied the existence of such problems until the amount of complaints and outcry was too staggering for it to ignore. While those problems happened mostly with their internal HDD models and I have never had any direct experience with their *external* HDDs, I read the user reviews before buying a new external drive, and the FreeAgent Go is having lots of problems, especially messing up Windows' handling of USB ports (or the chipset's, it's not clear) and having unrecoverable write errors in Windows, for which Seagate had not yet offered a solution when I last looked. No wonder that Seagate has had billions in losses in the last quarters, even taking into account the recession, and its stock has plummeted. It has lost a lot of credibility - and sales. Since Toshiba and Samsung external HDDs had even worse complaints (many angry users with "dead" HDDs just after a few months' use), and Iomega drives seemed to be good but were way too expensive and had no service or warranty in Brazil, I went for a WD My Passport Elite (and have just bought an Essential as well). At least so far, working great with no problems at all.
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I bought the Hewlett Packard 15k sas drive not seagate. I wish I had bought that brand though
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Others (per forum postings elsewhere) have replaced the 500mb standard drive upon purchase to avoid the hassles. You *can* un-mount the OS drive. Most users just probably *shouldn't* go through that. I just left it in there and added 2 1TB drives. Heck Seagate 1.5TB drives are now well under $200 each.Regardless, you can back up the server software (and backup the backup) via the external ports (4 USB/1 eSATA). I recommend doing so and backing up your backup and then taking that to an off-site location such as your work office, safety deposit box, friend's house, etc.
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I use both WD and Seagate for storage - I have a Blue Face WD10 EARS model, I've had that for about 7 years, I abuse it daily. On my other system, I bought a low-speed (5400 rpm?) Seagate ST1000DL - Which got some nasty reviews on Amazon - But I've had that for 2 years and no trouble, it's only for storage so I don't need the speed. I don't have any SATA3 HDD's at all, I don't have any motherboards that support it. I'll have to get an Add-on Card
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I used 4TB Drives from WDC and Seagate, they work fine. I don't know if 5TB drive would work or not.
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That may be true, but I've noticed that Seagate gives you a five-year warranty while Western Digital gives you only one. As long as you don't keep your ONLY copy of something important on the drive, I would go with the Seagate knowing that you'll have at least five years of replacements in case it fails.
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Confusing right? They sell just the hardware and shell. You have to buy the drives. I went with WD Red series. I would recommend you buy two drives ; one to make a mirror backup of the main drive. If yuh have a lot of home videos, buy two 3 TB drives or higher. My analysis suggests that this is the best price point. It is, overall, a $500 investment. But, it's worth it for pictures, phones and computer backup.
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Western digital has a series of hds that work fine. Make sure it is meant for a DVD not a computer. I bought it from Staples. No problem installing it.
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If you are trying to use this as an internal HDD, you might want to double check on the size there. That's a 3.5" HDD commonly used in desktops; unless you were planning on using this drive in an external HDD rig I would suggest you look into the 2.5" HDDs. *Suggestion: go with &lt;Western Digital Bare Drives 2.5 Inch, Low Profile, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8MB Cache 500GB Mobile Hard Drive, Blue WD5000LPVT&gt; it's only $3 more ($43.99) than that desktop HDD for double the capacity.
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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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Regardless - Go with WD or even Seagate. I have 5 portable drives (2 WD, 2 Seagate, 1 Toshiba) the Toshiba is the newest. I treat them all the same but the Toshiba is the only one crapping out on me in less than a year. Their laptops are KILLER though. It's possible that I just got a dud, but that's my current experience.
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These are the latest version that WD makes :) I would suggest that you call Western Digital's support line... They are both very helpful and completely knowledgeable about their products...
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In case you filed the D drive (if you are putting all files on the C, move them to the D) Asus also offers free storage on the cloud. Look into this. else, buy one additional hard drive. You can get Seagate 4 Tb HD for $190 buckaroos = cheap!
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Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
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I have 3 westerns in my pc i havent had a seagate in awhile. I have a seagate external drive and its ran fan for like 7 years. So i would look up some reviews of both and see which one is best.
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External drives are better in quality and durability. I have both and prefer the external.