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pradeep_chauhan
Cyborg Agent
Did i not see the same thing in the Bazaar section? Why the double post?
first things first.....there is a thread running already for such queries
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11272
so next time when u have a query for h/w, u know where to post...right!!!!
now for ur query...
go for a seagate drive.....its really gud......and d00d get urself a SATA drive
instead of the one above.....get urself a SEAGATE SATA HDD 7200 RPM.....
it wud cost u arnd 3200/-
FilledVoid
Who stole my Alpaca!
I havent had a negative experience with Seagate yet so my opinion would be to go for Seagate 
I saw the same post in the Bazaar section first and replied there. Repeating my reply here as this is a more appropriate section :
From personal experience and from reading about other people's experiences, I believe Seagate is the most reliable HDD brand. Maxtor's just about the worst, with Samsung and WD somewhere in between.
Kolkata price a few weeks ago : Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm PATA 80GB - 2650/-, 120GB - 3650/-. May have changed slightly now. I'll know for sure after I call my dealer tomorrow.
From personal experience and from reading about other people's experiences, I believe Seagate is the most reliable HDD brand. Maxtor's just about the worst, with Samsung and WD somewhere in between.
Kolkata price a few weeks ago : Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm PATA 80GB - 2650/-, 120GB - 3650/-. May have changed slightly now. I'll know for sure after I call my dealer tomorrow.
shwetanshu
Cyborg Agent
Go for seagate, i have two of them. One is 2 yrs old 40 GB @ 5400 RPM, not a single prob yet and another is 160 GB @ 7200 RPM. But dr, it doesnt make much noise.
pradeep_chauhan
Cyborg Agent
Same here I too have 2 160G drives and they are silent as in i dont hear them over the cpu fan sound.
geek_rohit
In the zone
I have Seagate too; 80GB PATA. No Probs for me too (touchwood). Going to get a SATA soon. Again from Seagate.
Keith Sebastian
Padawan
Even if there was a performance diff. I bet you wouldn't notice. I've always been a Seagate fan, but currently run a -
WD Caviar 80GB 7.2k 8mb PATA (1year old)
and
Samsung 80GB 7.2k 8mb SATA (1 week old) - damn pc dealer took advantage of my impatience and got me to buy this instead of Seagate.
I like the metal covered unexposed bottoms of Seagates whereas shameless WD and Samsungs prefer to expose their circuitry to all and sundry. Damn we need 18+ rating on these drives
Keith
WD Caviar 80GB 7.2k 8mb PATA (1year old)
and
Samsung 80GB 7.2k 8mb SATA (1 week old) - damn pc dealer took advantage of my impatience and got me to buy this instead of Seagate.
I like the metal covered unexposed bottoms of Seagates whereas shameless WD and Samsungs prefer to expose their circuitry to all and sundry. Damn we need 18+ rating on these drives
Keith
OP
Hulo
Broken In
pradeep_chauhan said:
Sorry for the double post. I've got one Seagate and one samsung drive. Both PATA 80GB 7200 RPM purchased a couple of years back. The Seagate one has developed troubles while the Samsung functions normally. The Seagate HDD has become absurdly slow, so much so that I get buffer overrun errors if I try to write files from this drive. Seagate had a bad reputation earlier of their drives developing bad sectors etc. The warranty was also for 1 year. compared to Samsung's 3 year. Seagate salvaged some reputation with the 5 year warranty. Anyone knows what the warranty period for Samsung HDDs are?
I have faced problems with both the drives and got replacements.
• Segate produces high noise and lot of heat.
• Samsung produces low noise and lesser heat than the Seagate.
• Both drives have 5 yrs warranty. But please check with your vendor.
Right now I have,
1. Seagate 120 GB Serial ATA 7200 RPM
2. Samsung 80 GB Parallel ATA 7200 RPM
• Segate produces high noise and lot of heat.
• Samsung produces low noise and lesser heat than the Seagate.
• Both drives have 5 yrs warranty. But please check with your vendor.
Right now I have,
1. Seagate 120 GB Serial ATA 7200 RPM
2. Samsung 80 GB Parallel ATA 7200 RPM
drvarunmehta
Wise Old Owl
I have a Seagate 40 GB 5400 RPM HDD that is almost 5 years old. It has yet to develop a bad sector or any other problem and is a lot more silent than most other HDD's.
You can't go wrong with Seagate.
You can't go wrong with Seagate.
drvarunmehta
Wise Old Owl
Seagate HDD's rarely ever need to be replaced, so don't look to much into that figure.Kannan said:
I think Samsung replacement is quicker because with all the defective HDD's that are returned to be replaced, their replacement procedure must be quite efficient by now.
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