phoenixjc

December 08, 2011 at 12:42pm

Working in an organization where we have over 5000 computers, I see every single failed drive we get.  90% of those are seagates.  The rest tend to be a mix of WD, Samsung, and others.  For my personal computers, after having all but 1 seagate drive I had purchased in the last 4 years die, I went to WD.  No more problems.  You may have had a run of bad luck there Joseph, or another component that was killing off your drives (low quality power supplies will do that).

Woden501

December 06, 2011 at 1:09pm

I've had two out of three Seagate drives I've purchased over the last three years fail on me, but have yet to have a Western Digital fail.  Of course I decided after the Seagate failures to take the advice of a server guru friend of mine to only buy Western Digital Blacks.  Sure they cost a good bit more, but that price difference quickly dissapears when you constantly have to pay $20+ to ship in a Seagate drive for replacement.

Rooke

December 06, 2011 at 12:45pm

I have to disagree with that...

I've never had a problem with a WD drive, and that's the only brand of HD that I've ever bought. (Except in 2001 when I made the mistake of buying a couple of IBM "DeathStar" drives that both went belly up after 6 months.)

Adam Wolfe

December 06, 2011 at 12:36pm

You're joking right? I've had 8 WD drives for 3+ years without any problems. Just because you get 1 bad drive, which is inevitable for all brands, doesn't mean they're all unreliable. If you've had more than 1 drive fail on you, maybe it's your fault (hot case, poor handling, etc).

Joji

December 06, 2011 at 11:40am

I bought the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 2TB for $160 at a small shop. Sure, I could have bought it later, but it was my first gaming computer and I can't just let it hang without an HDD. Better than nothing. :3