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I guess the old HD went south on my P-4. Western Digital about 2003. Looking at refurbished drives, I have used both. Any preference? the Baracuda is cheaper
I go with seagate. I have had good luck with them in a lot of systems. It is the drive used in most of the premium systems and laptops. I look for the one with the highest speed and biggest cache. Another option are the solid state SSD drives they are pricey, but last forever. My son has one in is his system and it boots in seconds.
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Its a 500 GB, 16 MB cache, 7200 rpm, big upgrade to my old P-4. (it may still be a bad motherboard) I used a 320 GB Seagate a while back that messed up. not sure why. thanks
I just had a 1tb Seagate crap out on me after only 2.5 years. Lost a ton of data and it can’t be restored. No more Sagates for me.
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Not sure what youre using it for, or what all you save, but you’ll probably fly through 160gigs quicker than you think
I picked up a portable (usb powered, usb3.0) WD terabyte at office depot for 80 bucks, was on sale.
some good deals out there, either way, youre going to get lots of trouble free use out of the WD unit!the 160 is just to keep it running, it’s XP Pro, soon to run out of updates. win 7 may be the next machine.
I have had good luck with WD and Seagate. I have three 3 terabyte Seagate Backup Plus that I am currently using. They are always offline unless I am doing something with them. One is kept offsite.
If you are budget minded just to keep it running, WD caviar black. If it’s a primary machine and budget is flexible, SSD. OCZ vertex 4 or Samsung 840 for latest and greated, OCZ Vertex 2 for better savings. I’m running two Vertex 2’s in RAID 0 for my OS (64 bit Win 7) and every day use things like antivirus, browsers, Itunes, etc. Two WD caviar blacks running RAID 0 as storage for all files and the utilities, including dual TV tuner card. I have been running for three years straight with ZERO problems.
Not 100% accurate. SSD can and do fail. They are MUCH more reliable than traditional drives, but they don’t last forever. In fact, Linus Torvalds just had a recently publicized failure of an SSD on one of his personal systems.
Even with an SSD, backup/s are important.
First time I’ve heard that SSDs aren’t supposed to fail.
I just had a RAID-0 setup with SSDs (don’t ask me why) fail after three years. You should be backing up everything anyway, in multiple locations.
I have had 4 seagate and 2 WD.
Of those, the only one that failed was a 3tb seagate backup plus drive that lasted all of a week.
I’ve had bad luck with Seagates and was lucky with WDs so far. At this very moment I’m looking for a replacement for one of the Seagate drives in my NAS. Might take a WD this time.
WD is more expensive, though.I’ve had two Westerns die on me this year. One was an internal drive(2Tb) and the other was inside a buffalo external drive. Buffalo provided NO support what so ever. The internal drive was inside a custom PC that I built and sold…the drive had hardly been used. Thankfully they have a good warranty and it was still covered. Heard some rumors though that WD’s quality is suckish right now…
Right now in my custom PC I have a Kingston SSD(64GB) and a Toshiba internal drive(1TB).
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