The Seagate drives on this week only deal

durbs said:
I have a few of the Seagate Barracuda drives, 2TB and 3TB running in Microservers and a Time Capsule. Not had a problem. No noise, no different than my WD ones IMO.
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There's nothing between any of these drives in the real world - only price. WD market better than Seagate, giving pretty similar drives a different colour 'sexes' them up a bit.

And then you pay a premium, a lot of their drives are only 5400RPM too...

Still, it's all about price for me because there isn't fag paper between any of these brands.
 
Darujhistan said:
Seagate and other drive makes are laughed aside.

Anyone taking HD's this seriously needs to get out more.
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That's a cheap insult, telling me I need to get out more. That in itself tells me I can safely ignore your advice.

Perhaps you could have been taken more seriously if you had omitted your insult and simply said "there are no differences between xyz and Hitachi drives".

I've been bitten more than once by Seagate drives - more times than Hitachi drives, certainly! That tells me Hitachi drives are more suited to my usage than Seagate drives.
 
Warranty is 1 year. Read into that what you will, but it will probably* be fine

*Though I'm never buying Seagate again, and any OEM machine I get with a Seagate will have that swapped out. This is the latest reason why
 
Eh I'm a fairly big fan of Seagates but I'd avoid the ones with only a year warranty (theres a reason for this :S).
 
Darujhistan said:
Suit yourself mate, carry wasting money on more expensive drives then...
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By this logic:
- The manufacturers shouldn't bother making "more expensive" drives, because nobody will buy them
- Waitrose should close up shop because everyone shops at Lidl and Asda
- BMW, Audi and Mercedes Benz should all close up shop because everyone buys only cheap Korean cars

How much something is worth is based on who wants it. I just don't see the point in using price as the sole argument against buying something. Everything has pros and cons, and the things with mostly cons tend to disappear from the market all by themselves.
 
d_brennen said:
Warranty is 1 year. Read into that what you will, but it will probably* be fine

*Though I'm never buying Seagate again, and any OEM machine I get with a Seagate will have that swapped out. This is the latest reason why
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I hope you don't mind me using your screenshot.
Darujhistan said:
Suit yourself mate, carry wasting money on more expensive drives then...
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d_brennen's Seagate:
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Note the counter for power on days is 151 days (nearly 5 months).

My own Hitachi drive shows 2,200 days - 6 years and 10 days.

Make of that what you will. But you carry on buying your cheap-for-a-reason Seagate drives and I'll carry on buying slightly-more-expensive-for-a-reason Hitachi drives - I know which one I can rely on. :D
Darujhistan said:
Warranty is TWO YEARS actually..
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That depends which drive you buy.

This has one year: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST250DM000) HDD
 
^^ Theres nothing wrong with most seagates - I've dealt with 100s possibly 1000s over the years - you do need to know what models to avoid tho :S
 
Bought a Samsung drive for my laptop and when it got here it says "Samsung by Seagate" on the label. Rage. :mad: Not had good fortune with Seagate.
 
bledd. said:
Hi mate, you qualify for free shipping by the way!
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I know thanks. I've made good use of it before :D

The seagate offer has ended now anyway, and this week there's every colour of WD drive on offer except red. Typical!

I've started getting wifi dropouts with my router lately though which is why I've held off buying any drives. Budget is tight and router will get priority if it doesn't start behaving itself. No point having loads of media stored if I can't share it :)
 
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