Seagate vs Western Digital


View Poll Results: Western Digital or Seagate? Who do you love?

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  • Western Digital

    16 45.71%
  • Seagate

    11 31.43%
  • I love something weird like a Maxtor or something else.

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  1. #1
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    Question Seagate vs Western Digital

    I always see about a dead heat in people's preference between Western Digital hard drives and Seagate's.

    Seagate lovers boast the silence and speed.

    Western Digital lovers boast the long warranty and long life.

    Let's see the numbers, who do you love?
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    Never had a problem with Maxtor at all.
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    I have one of each, and I like em both fine. I picked Western Digital because of an old 12 Gigabyte Western Digital hard drive that I had for years. My brother gave it to me and it had been on three or four computers before I got it, and I put it on three more computers before finally frying it just a few months ago.

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    I bought a 160GB SATA Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 when building my box, and have been happy with it, it certainly is quiet and fast, so I recently purchased a 250GB IDE version to upgrade my dad's Sky+ box (for those who don't know it's a combined satellite receiver and PVR), and the drive is quiet enough to be unnoticable. I've also got an old 40GB IBM Deskstar that has worked well for me for the past 5-6 years (I can't actually remember when I bought it, but it cost about £125 in the UK, if anyone can use the price to date it). There is also a Maxtor in my Dad's Dell that has been working fine since he bought it 2.5 years ago.

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    I like seagate
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    I like my Hitachi SATA drive.
    Quiet and fast.
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    Maxtor, baby, Maxtor. I also have one each of a Seagate and Western, they all work equally well.
    These are all ide, SATA is too expensive compared to IDE.
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    I have been a tech for far too long..... Western Digital ANY day, Seagate were good at one stage, their SCSI drives are great, but IDE's fail hopelessly, they use cheap glue which melt when you push them too hard and fmelts all over the platters....

    Hitachi/IBM are aewsome got three of their laptop drives, rock solid stuff!!

    Unfortunatley Maxtor appear to be going down the same road as Seagate, their drives are failing hopelessly now, had three crash in one week!!!
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    I buy whatever they have cheapest in the store I walk in. I still have a Fujitsu drive laying around somewhere.

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    That reminds me, this is how involved I get with computers. My daughter asks me, "Can I go for a drive?". I replied, "How many GB's are you going to get?" She was talking about automobiles.
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    From what I've heard/read, Western Digital drives(IDE) are prob the best in that group. I used Maxtors before, they were cheap, and it showed.

    As far as the sound quality, I hardly ever hear anything over some of the equipment in my lab, or the music I'm listening to, so i don't take that into effect.
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    I prefer Western Digital But I'll Take whatever I can get

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    i gotta go with maxtor too. good/cheap drives



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    I have to go with Western Digital. I had previously had three drives from them. I just built a new rig 6 months ago and went with Seagate. Wish I hadn't. It was the cheapest SATA drive available. It's loud. I have a P4 Prescott with a GeForce 6800 so I have plenty of fans cranked up and I still can hear the hard drive as the loudest component in my case. Definitely will never stray from Western Digital again.
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    I also picked WD cause the name Seagate reminds me of that twit on "American Idol".

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