500 GB / 1 TB Desktop HDD ? Prices given

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PraKs

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Hi all,

I am looking for 500 GB / 1 TB HDD to use it internally in desktop.

Just checked market price.

Seagate
500 GB SATA Seagate - 3130
500 GB SATA Seagate (7200 RPM) - 5600
1 TB SATA Seagate - 5650

Western Digital 500 GB @ 4150/-

From Above price I feel 1 TB SATA Seagate is best bet. But from lots of posts I found brand new Seagate is crashing a lot.

How about warranty on Seagate & Western Digital ?

Please suggest.
 
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rohan5

Right off the assembly line
I'm looking forward to buying one as well...

seagate series 7200.11 seem to have all the issues regarding firmware....

the 7200.12 series seem to be faring much better...
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110524

Seagate's warranty is top-notch. replaced my laptop hdd in 3-4 days.(my fault here, i dropped it ... and was using a cheap casing too; switched to transcend casing working fine for over 2 years) replaced it over-the-counter, no questions asked.

Dunno much about western digital's warranty... search the forums... some people have bore the brunt of wd's poor cust. care...

So far... Seagate 1 TB 7200.12 seems like a good bet to me.

:)
 
The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

oh wow...Xenforo!!!
Actually, I allready saw 2-3 cases where 7200.12 rpm seagates failing. But then again there are many reasons why a hard drive can fail. As of now WD green edition are much better choices and better off being safe since seagate is seeing issues 7200.11 rpm after a year's time.
 
lywyre

lywyre

Cyborg Agent
Even the 7200.11 failure is not a hard failure, the firmware bricks the drive under certain conditions, which is irreversible. But the data can be recovered (takes time and costs). It is still a loss and has been fixed in 7200.12 which should be dependable, though it is too early to say. Recently, Seagate has reduced its warranty from 5 years to 3 years, which is a cause for concern. I dunno about WD's warranty though.
 
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PraKs

Youngling
1 TB Seagate is a good deal, but worried about failure. Cant loose such important data.

So Is this true now ?

WD - Five Years Waranty
Seagate - 3 Years Waranty
 
uppalpankaj

uppalpankaj

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Seagate used 2 b the best a few yrs. back but now its performance has gone down. U can definitely consider WD if u want a 500 GB one.
 
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PraKs

Youngling
Heard Seagate has taken out defective stocks of 500GB HDD

New stocks does not have any such probs.

can any one confirm ?
 
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pimpom

Cyborg Agent
That's what I heard too. But there are probably stocks of the defective batch not returned by dealers and still circulating. So, unless you can verify the production batch, it may be a good idea to avoid buying Seagate 7200.11 drives for some time.

Pity really, I've always used Seagate for myself as well as for my clients. Luckily for me, the Seagate HDD lock-up epidemic happened at a time when I had not been involved in buying and supplying hardware for some time.
 
The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

oh wow...Xenforo!!!
There's always a chance that bad batch is circulating around. Most probably they callbacked retail hard drives but OEM hard drives are different story. Distributors dont send OEMs pretty easily and companies try not to take it back, unless there's a huge fuss about it. Its cheaper to replace a hard drive rather than recalling defective products.
Besides lets not forget its been a bit more than a year 7200.11 RPM drives were being sold but it was 3-4 months ago that they found it. But honestly in this day of age, its always good to keep a backup. Like I said, hard drives can fail for a moment. Till the time SSD becomes more feasible and NTFS issue is fixed, there's not much that can be done.
 
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PraKs

Youngling
Here is a quick update,

Went to a BIG computer shop.

500 GB SATA Seagate - 7200.12 - 5 yrs Warranty - Rs 2990
1 TB SATA Seagate - 7200.11 - 5 yrs Warranty - Rs 5460


500 GB SATA WD - No Stock
1 TB SATA WD - No Stock

Comment on WD Customer care - If your HDD stops working/crashes then call up WD Support, Courier guy comes home & picks up HDD & sends to Delhi, They might replace/repair & send back to your city. It takes around 15 days of time.

Is this correct ?
 
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