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How to buy the best hard drive!
For years, Western Digital was my choice of hard drives, as an extensive computer user and as a computer repair technician. They were reliable and quiet.
Today, though, Western Digital has sadly deteriorated into an also-ran. Their warranties are too short and, if you do have to send in a return (their early My Books were a disaster to poor design and overheating that would destroy them within a matter of weeks!), they send you a beat-up used drive that is "refurbished" - someone else's reject.
Among the leaders that leaves Maxtor and Seagate, even though Maxtor is owned by Seagate now.
My clear choice is Seagate because of (a) its 5-year warranty and (b) its much-improved reliability. Some years back, Seagate was my second choice.
But be careful! If you buy a Seagate hard drive at retail outlets like Staples, Best Buy, OfficeMax (avoid this place like the plague anyway!) or Office Depot, they may come with NO WARRANTY!
Always ask first. These retailers have some kind of deal with Seagate where (according to Staples' online help desk and one of their Nashville store managers) they have no warranty from the manufacturer. You have to buy an extended warranty from Staples. This is a somewhat underhanded little scheme so Staples, and presumably the other mass retailers, can put in their pockets what you should get for free!
You can go directly to the Seagate website and order the SAME DRIVE at the same price - with the 5-year warranty. I experienced this when I bought two internal 1-Tb Seagate Barracudas.
There's another bonus if you buy a new Seagate HD. You get a CD (DiscWizard - also downloadable) that lets you transfer your entire OLD drive (Windows, programs, settings and documents) to the new drive for free.
Many other programs are available out there to do this, but they are expensive and you can only make one transfer under their licenses, so this can easily be a $50-$76 value every time you use it!
Be forewarned, though, one of the drives (old or new) MUST be a Seagate drive. Western Digital does not offer such a program. Windows File Transfer won't even come close to what DiscWizard does.
And the whole process is very painless!
Today, when my customers ask me what brand of hard drive to buy, I tell them without hesitation - Seagate, but always check the warranty if you buy it in a retail store. You should be getting a 5-year warranty.
Maxtor, sadly, is in second place, despite being owned by Seagate. Their warranties aren't as good and in my experience they die sooner.
One last piece of Hard Drive wisdom.
Avoid the external drives UNLESS the case has a fan. They simply get too hot and burn up quicker. The warranties (on all brands) are generally poorer.
For the same money you can buy a good, fan-equipped external case, buy a quality internal drive (either IDE or SATA) and have a much longer-lasting product.Lire l'avis complet...
Product good. Ebay description bad.
Only thing keeping from excellent is low capacity. if the storage is right for you, then go for it.
Ebay's standard canned blurb about it is WRONG. this is a SATA drive, not EIDE/IDE/ATA-133
(note to ebay staff - look it up on wikipedia: IDE and ATA are synonymous with PATA, and have nothing to do with SATA. remove the IDE/EIDE/ATA references from this canned description!)Lire l'avis complet...
internal hard drive
Seagate hard drives are good hard drives. Got a few of them and they perform very well,haven't had one to fail on me yet.I know there are probably better internal hard drives out there but the seagate/maxtor are dependable and work very well for me and they quite affordable if you are looking to upgrade your hard drive for your computer or to use as data storage for backing up files. To me they work as well as some of the other name brand hard drives. I am very pleased with the one's that i'm using now.Lire l'avis complet...
I got what I expected, plenty of space for an average user.
Well, i paid $8 for the hard drive. You get what you pay for, performance is solid though. I used the drive in a computer I was building for my little sister it was fine for what she used it (Internet, Microsoft office). Wouldn't recommend it to a gamer or performance user though.Lire l'avis complet...
Item didn't work
I didn't love or hate the item. Like they said this may or may not fix the hard drive problem. In my case it did not fix the issue I had with my broken hard drive. The item was easy to find and the support was great. I can't say too much more about the product other than it came with instructions and easy to install.Lire l'avis complet...
Excellent Hard Drive
Excellent HD's that seem to be compatible with most older Computers.ATA/IDE and These were used in DVR's without any issue.
Fast and reliable for the years they were established
Seagate DiamondMax Plus 9 MAXTOR120ATA (120 GB, DMA/ATA
i like the seagate hard drive i had previous to this purchase. it's easy to connect and upload my OS, and holds all the documentation i need.
Beware of Seagate or any affiliation with Seagate. NO!
I will never buy the new Seagate/Maxtor drives. I have had bad experiences with Seagate. Now Maxtor is contaminated. Only old Maxtors. I will buy WesternDigital, IBM, Hitachi before having anything to do with Seagate drives. Your DATA is irretrievable once your drive goes bonkers. All the Seagates Ive bought in the past 10 years have failed. Your choice. Save some bucks and lose your data or lose your PC. Stay away from Seagate like weaponized ecoli.Lire l'avis complet...
Great service and delivery of this product
After install of drive and reinstall of OS the hard drive has performed as expected. It has worked flawless and plenty of storage left.
Maxtor Drives
Although maxtor is now owned by seagate the maxtor drives have given me great service over the years with very few problems. You can buy used drives and expect good service.