Looking for a new 1TB internal drive. Seagate too many issuses now?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I've always bought Seagate drives in the past without any issues. I currently need a 1TB internal drive, but have read nothing but bad reports and issues with the Seagate 1 & 2 TB drives. So I'm looking to see what's a top line 1TB drive?

Thanks for any help you can shot my way....

[budz]

Get a WD Green or Black series hard drive.

WD Black sata 1TB, sata hd, $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

WD Digital AV-GP WD10EVDS 1TB 32mb cache, sata hard drive, $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136496
^^^^Last month I bought the 500gb version of that WD Green series hd.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB sata hard drive, $69.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
Some have said this drive is faster than the WD Black series.

WD Black has 5 year warranty & Green has 3 years.
Samsung only has 3 year warranty.

I don't even bother with Seagate anymore.
Just my 2 cents!

[zoobie]

get the 5 year warranty...some are so cheap, they don't last 2 years

[nic2k4]

Watch it with the WD green drives if you're using an older OS like XP, you'll get dismal performance until your run the partition alignment software. This only applies to green drives with EARS or AARS in the model number, notice the R in the 3rd position of the code.

The black drives are the top of the line consumer drives and usually cost an extra $20. The blue drives are the standard drives and are only $5 more than the green.

[budz]

^^^I think you're talking about using the Green drives if they are used as boot drives. If using the Green drives for storage the performance is fine. If you look at the Green drive link that I posted it's a bit different from the EARS or AARS models.

[aedipuss]

i had been using w.d. black drives for the last couple years with no problems. i switched to samsung f3 1TB drives for the 130MB/s sustained transfer rate, the w.d.'s are around 90-100MB/s. using 4 currently in this computer, lovely drives so far, quiet and quick. either is a fine choice, the samsungs just cut a significant amount time off of file intensive operations.

[nic2k4]

^^^I think you're talking about using the Green drives if they are used as boot drives. If using the Green drives for storage the performance is fine. If you look at the Green drive link that I posted it's a bit different from the EARS or AARS models.

The performance issue with older OS is due to the lack of support for the 4KB sector used by the Advanced Format technology. Older file systems use a 512 byte sector, so you can see all disc operations are affected whether on a boot drive or not. The effect is a lot like what you get when the two FAT tables get out of sync, the drive gets really slow. You run Scandisk and everything is back to normal. Using the WD Align program after formatting allows the drive to operate normally.

I didn't notice your link was for the green AV drive, again no R in the 3rd position, it's not an advanced format drive. It's also $20 extra for an AV drive.

[DarrellS]

I've always bought Seagate drives in the past without any issues. I currently need a 1TB internal drive, but have read nothing but bad reports and issues with the Seagate 1 & 2 TB drives. So I'm looking to see what's a top line 1TB drive?

Thanks for any help you can shot my way....

That's strange. I have three Seagate drives in my PC and have had no problems with them. I have two WDs (160GB boot drive and 1TB storage drive) and an old Maxtor (500GB). Had two 500GB Maxtors but somehow got a small piece of metal in my case that stuck to the bottom of the drive and shorted it out. RMA'd it at the Seagate website and they sent me a 750GB Seagate to replace it. The Maxtor I have, I used the circuit board to get the data off of the bad drive before sending it to Seagate.

I don't see much difference in Seagate and WD (as long as you get a drive with a 5 year warranty). I usually just buy which ever one is on sale. I used to have a lot of trouble with WD drives but the ones I've bought lately have given me no problems.

[budz]

Seagate had some problems the last few years with their drives...for some odd reason their quality control went downhill....I used to only buy Seagate in the past too....but when they had lot of failed drives...I steered away and went with WD....my next will be Samsung spinpoint F3 hard drive...

[lacywest]

In the PC I use ... see specs ... I use one 80 GB Seagate 7200.7 ... with two 40 GB partitions ... Dual Boot ... WINXP Media Center 2005 and the other OS is ... WIN 7 7600 Ultimate x64.

But ... I have 7 USB 2.0 Harddrives ... they are all Maxtors [made by Seagate] or Seagates ... each of them being 500GB.

I have one labeled as the D Drive ... and this is the drive where all my games get installed to ... and it is the Drive that the Media Center records my TV shows too.

If for some reason my designated "D" Drive becomes the "P" or "Q" or "S" drive ... I go into the ... administrator section in the Control Panel and set things right.

My 80 GB Seagate drive is the only drive I have mounted in my tower ... HDD Observer ... says it is at 57 % health and 90 % Performance and 1182 Days of work time and at time of posting this it is 73.4 degrees Fahrenheit ... if it should fail before I can gracefully swap it out ... no biggy ... all the good stuff is scattered on the other drives.

The others drives are showing temperatures of 86 -- 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

A few years ago ... Seagate tried an idea of applying a coating to their platters to make them more slippery as the heads read the info ... well ... that coating started coming off ... gumming up the heads and stuff. Yes I too had a lot of Seagate Drives ... 160 GB ... 200 GB ... 300 GB ... and I think I now know why they all started screwing up and hardly working at all.

So far these drives [my 500 GB USB drives] are not screwing up and I've been using this arrangement for over a year now.