western digital vs seagate hard drives?
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I prefer Seagate (quieter and longer warranty, 5 years vs. 3). Of course, if you need to make use of the warranty on a hard drive, you're already in trouble.
405025
Yes there is!! Difference in quality is due to the quality of bearings, quality of platters and quality of coating used in manufacturing. But you can't check them yourself easily. So I'll like to suggest you to go for a reputed manufacturer and get the drive having 7200 rpm and 8 MB buffer.
895414
I am sure this is one of the current best gamming machine configuration.  The only thing keep it from perfection is consider 2 GB of ram instead of 1.\n\nFor the HD, I would add 2 seagate 160GB SATA 2 and set up raid 0.\n\n\nI gave this 9.5/10
1009775
and the problem you are having is?????????...more info is needed\nactually the fact that its a Seagate HDD is probably part of the problem;)\nwe only use Western Digital HDD's
262729
I have a 120gb drive that I bought about three years ago and it cost me around $130.00. You can find the same kind now for about $70-$90. Mine is a Maxtor. I like those the best.
1144816
I don't have any experience with Seagate HDD's, but I have heard from people who have used them in heavy usage situations and they say that they are not all that good. They recommend Western Digital first and Maxtor a close second. I have built a couple of computers, and I buy most of my parts from newegg.com. I do trust the customer comments, especially the last two months, this may show a trend in quality issues.
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www.pricewatch.com is a great place to find the lowest price on hardware. Go there and choose computerparts > cd drives and burners. Then find the speed of drive you want and it will list it, in order, by price after shipping (I love that part).\n\nIf you don't trust mail order, I would scan the best buy, comp  usa, and office depot flyers on Sundays and find one that has a great rebate. I bought a hard drive recently for $40 after the rebate - I couldn't have found it that cheap online.
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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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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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I believe USB 2 is technically faster but only in Peak bursts. Firewire can maintain a sustained data rate over a longer period of time.\n\nI have had problems with certain firewire hard drives with video so make sure you check up on the specific drive you are purchasing. Make sure your drive is at least 7200 rpm. I built my drive with a ADS firewire USB2 enclosure and a Western Digital hard drive. it was simple and has been dependable, and if it fails I can get an inexpensive drive and replace it. Worked for me.\n\nTony
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For backup (one touch) i would go with Seagate, but for a portable hard drive i would use WD (western digital)\n\nBoth are excellent companies, and i haven't had a faulty product from them yet.
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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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best thing would be to go t seagate's support site, and find out what they say you can do with it
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No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
1015751
while that method is legit, I suggest just backing them up on CD's.\nMake two copies of each for back-up, back-up.\nA external Hard drive still has all the potential problems as an internal its just- well external. a CD, as long as its not submerged into water for long periods of time, and not near, heat, direct sunlight, can last a life time.
424155
external is better.because it can be used for other computers too.\nyou can use it as a large cooldisk.
403282
The hardware itself should work for both but I have seen hard drives that said MAC formatted on it (From a really old Mac) Just make sure it is formatted to Windows compatible (Fat32 or NTFS)and it should work.