Seagate 1.5 TB Drives - Critique and Assessment

[Ricey]

Anybody has anything bad to say about these drives?

I don't really care so much about drive speed. Its for data storage. Reliability is of utmost concern.

I'm about to pull the trigger on four of these because they are now so damn cheap.. $120 each.

[Xilikon]

If reliability is the most important criteria, I would look more into WD instead. Since they bought Maxtor, Seagate is now a mixed bag in terms of reliability and this is with hundreds of HDD I handled at work.

[Ricey]

OK. Its a WD 1TB that just died on me lol

[Xilikon]

OK. Its a WD 1TB that just died on me lol

LOL but not by itself but due to a brownout ??

[bigslappy]

WD rules & yes they do die but then everything dies at some point ... Seagate has alot of RMA's

[Kayin]

You know, every single WD drive I have is dead. My Seagates I can always track to something like I sleeved a Molex wrong and toasted it or whatever...

Dunno, my 2 cents. I'm using a Hitachi now. I'm pretty happy, just want more space.

[Ricey]

yea... by brown out... but if your girlfriend from Miami slutted herself behind you, I think you may think twice about your next girlfriend being from Miami haha


OK I look at WD again :)

[Xilikon]

The biggest problem with HDD reliability data is the probabilities. It work favorably for some and negatively for others. I'm just talking from personnal experience but with the sampling amount (about 500-1000 HDD during my career), WD ranked first, Seagate second, Maxtor third and IBM/Hitachi dead last (some batches have a 95% failure rate after 3 years of use).

Nobody cannot guarantee that a given harddisk will work reliably but you can improve the odds by going with a reputable manufacturer and taking some good care (handling, environment temperature and vibrations).

It's the same thing for everything you buy.

[NAekuh]

i am also interested in the new 1.5TB drives.

lately my porn collection is getting too large being single over xmas.. ROFL.


But seriously, i like seagates. I havent had any problems with them, and im running 6 1TB series.

Oh iany, the WD green 1TB arent bad either. Have had one since day 1 they got released and hasnt failed on me yet.

[bigslappy]

The biggest problem with HDD reliability data is the probabilities. It work favorably for some and negatively for others. I'm just talking from personnal experience but with the sampling amount (about 500-1000 HDD during my career), WD ranked first, Seagate second, Maxtor third and IBM/Hitachi dead last (some batches have a 95% failure rate after 3 years of use).

Nobody cannot guarantee that a given harddisk will work reliably but you can improve the odds by going with a reputable manufacturer and taking some good care (handling, environment temperature and vibrations).

It's the same thing for everything you buy.

Agreed it's alot of variables with HHD's .. alot of freinds in the IT field swear by the WD's >> just in they don't have replace them often as much as all the others
but in reality it all how u take care of yer EQ


Handling the top issue
heat up there also
clean power in (as a way over looked issue)

don't get me started on CHEAP PSU'S

[Baleful]

I've never used WD so I can't say anything bad about them. I use Seagate exclusively because I've never *knocks on wood* had any die on me. I've used a wide range of drives from them, internal, external, whatever.

As for the drive in question, never used it. You can't really go wrong with WD or Seagate. I think it just comes down to personal pref.

[Ricey]

There's been a lot of recent noise about Samsung. Their standing with me has increase a couple of notches recently because of their LCDs and Plasmas and other electronics... but I'm still kind of hesitent.

[Xilikon]

There's been a lot of recent noise about Samsung. Their standing with me has increase a couple of notches recently because of their LCDs and Plasmas and other electronics... but I'm still kind of hesitent.

I'm also hesitent myself about Samsung but I have 2 HDD (1TB and 750GB) and they works great. I'll see if Samsung can be very trusted as a HDD brand.

[Ricey]

Any ideas how I can build a small NAS box that is silent and unattended, and yet can be rebooted easily without Windows BS.

[NAekuh]

Any ideas how I can build a small NAS box that is silent and unattended, and yet can be rebooted easily without Windows BS.

auto reboot program to reboot your system.

PCAnwhere to manage your system on your main desktop.

Thats how i have Natsuki and Sammy setup. My 2 large scale cruncher/NAS.

[Kayin]

Nice av, bro.

[lloyd_mcse]

Any ideas how I can build a small NAS box that is silent and unattended, and yet can be rebooted easily without Windows BS.

NAS drives I like my Synology very much as it's just an enclosure, so you can add any hd you want. I'll see if i can find a link in a min.....

Synology (http://www.synology.com/enu/index.php)

I haven't bought seagate or Maxtor drives for years now :up:
No hard drive issues yet - except with one of my maximus extreme sb's - but that was mobo issue

To clarify: to many customer coming in with dead seagates and maxtors, i can't really speak off their latest drives