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guys, I appreciate, but I have already orderd the WD Caviar Blue to keep me going for a while till XP updates run out.
Thats been a reoccurring problem in the drive industry(and tech in general). Manufacturer X buys a whole bunch of components (often capacitors) from manufacturer Y that turn out to be defective. The big problem is, the defect takes months (even years) to be discovered/acknowledged, and by that time there are many thousands of units that are deployed. Even if manufacturer X makes good to the customer, they may or may/not recover any costs from Y, and even if they do, they are still loosing on admin costs for the warranty and loss of customer faith.
I use both, and have had no issues with either
i do back all my important data on a pair of hard drives though, one lives at home, and the other at the office.
i figure if something wipes out both HDDs together i have bigger problems than a loss of dataWD, for me; I’m a bear about data retention, and have about eight external storage drives to double-safe my stuff. All my failed drives (2 out of 10) have been Seagate.
what fun, thought you might like an update. Full format, load XP Pro, mobo drivers, SP-1, SP-2, video and audio drivers, then put it on line. went to Win Update and it was a different page. Said I was there from win 2000, 2003 Server or XP. spent the night trying to repair that. Next morning, on a old ThinkPad, I asked the same thing on line. Finally found that it was happening all over since last Wednesday to people. Found a Agent update program that worked, now tons of updates are flowing in. fun times!
I use WD all the way. For me they’ve been more reliable and I’ve had many HD’s in my computers, back up drives, etc. If you want one that’s completely reliable look for something other than the consumer grade stuff you can get from BB. For instance, in my Drobo I use only WD Red’s, which are made for NAS/DAS HD’s. Every manufacturer makes HD’s that are a step up from their consumer grade so I’d look for those unless you just want to get something as cheap as possible.
06/2016 and it still is running. can’t say the same thing for my ThinkPad T61, win 7 64 bit lappy with problems after the win 10 d/l failed.
In my personal experience repairing computer’s for a living for the past 30-plus years, I’ve always had poor luck with Seagate’s, WD’s are ok but my current preference would be a Hitachi, Fujitsu or HGST for mechanical drives. For SSD’s, Intels have a pretty high failure rate but Samsung’s and Kingston’s seem to take alot of abuse without a single complaint.
I have been using WD drives for years and they have been solid performers.
At the same time, from anecdotal evidence from friends, you won’t really go wrong with Seagate either – both are good products and the differences between them in real life are minimal.
The important thing to remember is that you shouldn’t be asking yourself the question ‘will my drive fail’, but ‘when will my drive fail’ – all hard drives have finite lifespans, and they will eventually fail, so you need to take the appropriate precautions. Any data you don’t want to lose should always be backed up somewhere so that when a drive goes, it is an inconvenience to you, not a complete disaster.
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