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01-27-2009, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Dopefish  | I was going to post that. Sick ass performance. I've been looking around at controllers, too. this one has DUAL core? wtf? nice.
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01-27-2009, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark Seagate r bad. | ftfy |
01-27-2009, 04:24 PM
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| | | western digital caviar black.
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01-28-2009, 02:56 AM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | I'm constantly switching between Seagate and Western Digital drives. I've had more WD drives go bad than Seagate drives. I always used WD drives in the past. Currently all of my drives are Seagate drives and within the past 5-6 years I haven't had a single Seagate drive that I own go bad, including the 1TB drives. In that same 5-6 years, I've had 2 WD drives go bad.
This recent mess with the 1TB (and other) drives from Seagate, and the way they handled it, has really made me cautious. But really, I don't think anyone can know whether a drive will last or not. It may just be the position of the Earth to the Moon and Sun when a certain batch of drives were made that are all doomed to fail.
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01-28-2009, 10:49 AM
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| | | After some investigation, the only drive I've had forever that has never failed is a Samsung.
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01-28-2009, 01:40 PM
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| | | I used WD drives exclusively for years... I had tons of them fail..
When i switched exclusively to Seagate the failure rate has dropped... I currently have 11 Seagate drives that i go between (4x750GB, 4x320GB, 2x250GB, 1x500GB) and to date i have only had one of the 250GB drives fail,.
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01-28-2009, 01:49 PM
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| | | I've had pretty much at least one of every manufacturer fail. there is no magic or secret brand... although avoid hitachi/ibm stuff like the plague
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01-28-2009, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by VincentVega I've had pretty much at least one of every manufacturer fail. there is no magic or secret brand... although avoid hitachi/ibm stuff like the plague | Avoid Hitachi/IBM... WD is not too bad, but every drive i have had from them has failed inside of 2 years...
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01-28-2009, 02:00 PM
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| | | I have had the best luck with seagate.. less so with WD, although I am running two of them in a Raid 1 at the moment.
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