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Seagate First With SATA 6Gb/sec. 2 TB Drive
Tom's Hardware ^
| September 21, 2009
| Marcus Yam
Posted on 09/22/2009 6:18:23 AM PDT by Sudetenland
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Bigger, better, faster, stronger...technology advances onward and upwards.
Gotta have it, gotta have it...pant, pant, pant. :)
To: Sudetenland
To: Sudetenland
Yay! An even FASTER Seagate drive to fail more frequently than any other brand!
Give me Western Digital, or give me DEATH!
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:22:26 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: Sudetenland
I only buy seagate HDD. They have the best return policy and great warranty coverage.
Don’t skimp and try to save $10 by buying a crappy drive with a 1 year warranty. Buy the a seagate you can’t go wrong!
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:22:42 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Sudetenland
Wow! Now I’ll have plenty of space for my Notepad files.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:24:22 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:25:21 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Sudetenland
"Bigger, better, faster, stronger..."
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:26:32 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: newfreep
Man, I used to love that show when I was a kid.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:27:59 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: Sudetenland
How do speeds of Solid State Drives compare "normal" hard drives?
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:28:00 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Sudetenland
Have they fixed their buzzing, epic-fail problem that seems to happen to a good chunk of Seagate drives?
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:28:22 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Sudetenland
Gotta have it, gotta have it...pant, pant, pant. :)
I'll wait.
Seagate drives have been terrible lately.
Seems like the only trustworthy drives anymore are Western Digital, and even THEIR 1.5 TB drive was bad (in fact ALL 1.5 TB drives had problems, so you may want to skip them).
I've got BUCKETS of blood from being on the bleeding edge. I'll wait on this one.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:29:51 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
To: TChris
Wow WD is the worst for me. Seagate has been the industry leader with support.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:30:54 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: TChris
Yep - I enjoyed that show, too but must admit I would rather watch the female version with Lindsey Wagner - what a blonde babe with a sexy voice!
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:33:30 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: fso301
Wow! Now Ill have plenty of space for my Notepad files. One of the benefits of these big drives is that the data stored on the outer tracks is very fast, so people who only use a small amount of the storage space get a performance increase in speed.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:42:34 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: for-q-clinton
They have the best return policy and great warranty coverage. AFAIK, Seagate has a 3 yr limited warranty. Western Digital's is 5 yrs.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:43:35 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: for-q-clinton
Wow WD is the worst for me. Seagate has been the industry leader with support. Hmm..
I can count the number of WD drive's I've replaced in my 20 year PC support careeer on one hand. Seagates and Maxtors have been by the truckload. IBM (now Hitachi) used to be pretty good too, can't say for sure now.
I notice that Dell ususally replaces a failed Maxtor or Seagate with a WD.
Seagate makes very good SCSI drives though.
Oh well, I guess every person's experience is unique.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:51:13 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: TChris
re: Give me Western Digital, or give me DEATH!
Amen! I've been buying and using hard drives since the late 70’s and the only brand I've found that goes the distance is Western Digital. At times I've had to go with other brands, but nothing lasts like WD.
I am very reluctant to go with the really big drives. The bigger the drive, the more you lose when it fails.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:54:00 AM PDT
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
To: Sudetenland
Worthless. It is still going to have the same access times, spindle speed etc.. as the old Sata standard. Going to 6 Gb/s is not going to somehow magically increase those.But you will be able to add more into a raid setup though before exceeding bandwidth.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:55:19 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
To: TChris
It’s funny to me as well. I have had 5 WD and I have lost 5 WDs (typically 1 or 2 months after the warranty expired). One was during the warranty but I lost critical data (photos). I just put on my hawaii pics but didn’t get a backup made when the drive died.
So not only is it 5 out of 5 bad...it also brings back anger for losing my photos.
Seagate I’ve replaced 2 of them but have bought dozens. And one of those my friend fried it by jamming the connector in backwards...it was a smoking hdd when he turned on the PC. THey replaced it no questions asked.
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:56:11 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: sauropod
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posted on
09/22/2009 6:57:21 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(People who do things are people that get things done.)
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