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hi,

which manufacturer is better for an hard disk of 120gb with 8mb cache ?

seagate, maxtor or wd ?

thanks in advance
 
hi,

which manufacturer is better for an hard disk of 120gb with 8mb cache ?

seagate, maxtor or wd ?
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They all are probably OK. I have used several WDs and Maxtors - mostly
Maxtors with no problems in the last few years. Im running 3 Maxtors
right now and bought a WD recently for someone who hasnt had any
problems. Others say the Seagates are fine too.

Probably best to go by price and warranty.
 
dina said:
hi,

which manufacturer is better for an hard disk of 120gb with 8mb cache ?

seagate, maxtor or wd ?

thanks in advance
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they all have pretty good reputations.

i build a modest amount of machines and use mostly maxtor
and have never had any problems.
 
DaveW said:
W.D. They're also the only one of them with a three year warranty.
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Not so. SOME Seagate drives also have 3-year warranties. The ST3200822AS for
example. It is a super-fast and super-quiet SATA drive. I haven't seen what
the price is but it probably isn't cheap since they seem to be aiming it
directly at the server market formerly the exclusive domain of SCSI.
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hi,

which manufacturer is better for an hard disk of 120gb with 8mb cache ?

seagate, maxtor or wd ?

thanks in advance
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In terms of general quality, I've not had any problems with any of
these brands (the only brands I've ever had any problems with were
IBM, and Fujitsu). Even comparing performance and noise level, the
newer models with fluid bearings will be extremely close. I'd give
the nod to Western Digital, simply because their 8MB cached drives
have a 3 year warranty (or at least they did last I checked, which was
about a year ago). I'm not sure if it's a manufacturer offer or not,
but when I was in the market for a hard drive some time back, I was
told that an extended warranty is available for Maxtor drives, if a
longer warranty makes a difference to you.
 
I've used all three and really haven't had reliability problems with any of
them. I tend to prefer Seagate in that I've had some co-existence problems
(with other drives) way in the past with Maxtor and Western Digital (so I
have tried not to buy these brands, but have had a few recent samples). I
think Seagate makes the fastest drives, but you generally have to look for
them (15k rotational speeds and SCSI-320) and they aren't cheap. Of the
brands you mentioned, I believe Seagate is also the only manufacturer that
currently has SATA-150 drives in stores.
 
I've used all three and really haven't had reliability problems with any of
them. I tend to prefer Seagate in that I've had some co-existence problems
(with other drives) way in the past with Maxtor and Western Digital (so I
have tried not to buy these brands, but have had a few recent samples). I
think Seagate makes the fastest drives, but you generally have to look for
them (15k rotational speeds and SCSI-320) and they aren't cheap. Of the
brands you mentioned, I believe Seagate is also the only manufacturer that
currently has SATA-150 drives in stores.
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Last time I had to deal with Seagate, they wouldn't do advance
shipping on RMA's...a very important feature that's needed, IMHO.

For a while, I switched over to IBM drives...up 'till then, a loyal WD
fan for over 10 years. A BIG mistake.

Most of today's drives are very dependable. So...what else then would
make one drive better than another?

Customer service!! And yer not gonna beat WD in that area.

A coupla times, I've received an advance replacement drive the very
next morning. I had to pay a coupla bucks extra for the
shipping...but I was in a spot in those cases...and it was worth the
extra money.

IMHE, WD customer support has always been courteous and competent.
That's hard to find in this day and age.

Western Digital has my vote.


Have a nice week...

Trent

If the cheese isn't yours...its Nacho cheese, man!
 
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Not so. SOME Seagate drives also have 3-year warranties.
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.... and the retail WD drives don't have a 3 year warranty anymore,
and some Maxtors have longer warranty too.

The WD drives are good, but AFAIK the ~120MB, 8MB cache versions are
still, all ball-bearing drives, making them significantly more noisey
in that annoying whiney sort of way.
 
Dina,

I am a data recovery tech. History indicates we see fewer Seagate IDE drives
than any other manufacturer. SATA drives are too new for us to have
developed a history. If I had to rank your options;
1-Seagate
2-Maxtor
3-WD

That said, ALL HARD DRIVES EVENTUALLY FAIL! Buy a second drive and use it to
backup the primary drive. Be faithful at backups and it won't matter who's
better. When the time comes, you'll be prepared.


dbData
http://www.howtorecoverdata.com
 
dbData said:
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That said, ALL HARD DRIVES EVENTUALLY FAIL! Buy a second drive
and use it to backup the primary drive. Be faithful at backups
and it won't matter who's better. When the time comes, you'll
be prepared.
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Absolutely. The best method is to have an easily removable second
drive, but absent that just install one (get it big, but 5400 rpm
is fine) and use XXCOPY (from http://www.xxcopy.com) to maintain
the backups. The /clone switch allows revising the backup very
quickly, and avoids the lengthy delays that normally prevent
people from making backups at all. After the very first backup
they will probably take much less than 10 minutes.

This recommendation is based on using Windows - if you are using a
real OS advice would be different.
 
Dina,

I am a data recovery tech. History indicates we see fewer Seagate IDE drives
than any other manufacturer.
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Do you think that's got anything to do with dependability?


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
 
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