what hard drive is better seagate or western digital?
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I work in a computer store and this is really a matter of opinion.  Every day I meet people who hate WD and love Seagate or Maxtor and vice versa.  It's like asking what's better Ford or Chevy.  I would do some searching and try to find out which has the lowest defect rate.  My experience is they are all about the same.  I would say WD will give you better performance (make sure you buy an 8 or 16MB cache, not 2, and if you have SATA, buy a SATA2 drive with the 3Gbps transfer rate, it's compatabile with SATA1 and about the same price.)  Seagate has a five year warranty which is hard to pass up.
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Check all the cables and connections.\n\nIf your device is detected by the OS then that is a start.\n\nCheck in the following location:\nControl Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management\n\nIf your device is shown here then great, but be warned your data may be lost and you may need to reformat the drive.\n\nHowever, if you are hearing a cranky sound then it may be that the drive has given up.  Not a good sign.\n\nCheck all of the above to make certain.  If it is a new disk then return it or get it replaced.  If unfortunately you need to buy a new disk, then AVOID Western Digital.  Get Seagate or Maxtor.\n\nGood Luck\nBattery Wizard
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If you watch the ads you can get one on sale for about 30-40 dollars. The best brand available is Seagate, if you can get one of THOSE for that cheap you are in hog heaven.
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USB External hard drives are very affordable and have the advantage of being portable. Another alternative is copying your data to a DVD(s). Then store them offsite in case of a fire or other disaster.
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Sata-1 would be a good place for the primary drive. When you expand add to 2, 3 , etc.
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its just the name of western digital's top hardrive
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Yes, you will not have to worry about compatibility unless you were to pickup a laptop model instead of a standard desktop hard drive.  I would get a 7200rpm.  Personally I would recommend a Seagate Barracuda as they are known for being fairly quiet.  Save up enough money for the right size hard drive so you don't have to replace it in a year again.
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SATA is better because you dont need to bother with those bulky wide IDE cables. SATA drives also dont have jumpers and are much easier to work with.
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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external harddrive, or change out the old one to a larger one
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Take my word, purchase Maxtor One Touch 2. Its a 300Gb hard disk worth around $250. Its can handle loads upto of network file server. It has 7200 RPM disk speed with 16Mb Cache. Its the cheapest, and best in performance. I am a music video collector and have divided it into 6 partitions of 50 Gb Each. I purchased it to connect to my laptop. It is also pretty stable, has a long life. It can handle heavy server loads too. Before buying, I did a one month research on various factors. Just one word of precaution, don't buy Maxtor One Touch (250Gb), this is one Touch 2. In case you need to back up your files, you just need to press a button on the hard disk, and it back ups automatically.\n\nThe only one better than it is Sony 400 Gb hard disk, but its price is almost double and not that great enhancement in performance.\n\nAn interesting info, it is better than most laptop internal hard drives themselves.
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i think this question should be what whould i look when  buying an ext hdd  ;)\n\njust make sure your laptop has a usb port \ndont buy any product which has builted for usb 1.1 ( cause they would be cheap to effect your decision)  go for usb 2.0\n\ncheck for western digital while checkin seagate prices cause in my country wd is more cheaper than seagate for same gb\n\ncan check around at yahoos new service http://tech.yahoo.com
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Seagate offers a free software to analyze your system and check out your hard drive.\n\nhttp://www.seagate.com/support/
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External hard drives typically connect via USB or Firewire, so just make sure your computer has the appropriate port to connect through.  There is no software needed (unless it's some crazy cheap poor excuse for a hard drive); They'll usually just show up as a new drive letter in your Control Panel as soon as you plug it in.  The data transfer rate and speed are irrelevant as far as compatibility goes, but obviously the faster it is, the more convenient it is for you (and probably the higher the price will be).
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Using a pen/thumb drive is the most efficient way. They some in different capacities. You should get the one with the largest capacity if you plan to move huge files.\n\nNote: This suggestion is for data files only. You can never move O/S or system files or even programs.
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I got a 128 mb Kingston.  It is the silver one.   Nice looking and no data has ever been lost.  If you have usb2, it can use that kind of port, so transferring files are fast.  If you can afford it, then get a 1 gb, or 4 gb.  But for saving files that don't amount to much memory, 128 mb is sufficent.   Kingston is the only one that I have ever used.  There is no splash screens that pop-up everytime you put the drive into the usb device, so that eliminates time wasted.
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Your second hard drive needs to also be an Ultra ATA hard drive (the size can be whatever you need). The hard drive controller installed in your computer will support at least two hard drives, the second one installed is called the "slave" (if you encounter that question in the install instructions). 7200 RPM is standard (the speed that the drive spins) but if you can get something faster for a decent price, that would be a good upgrade. A faster RPM means less time to retrieve data and therefore better performance. If you have a Dell, I would start with their website as the starting point to get some idea of pricing. Also, pretty much every large electronics store has these types of hard drives as they are standard upgrades.