just bought a new seagate hd

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furiousfords89

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I just bought a Seagate 80gb ATA/100 w/ 8mb cache for an unbeatable price of 40 bucks after a mail-in rebate from best buy and i just need some opinions about this drive.... is it good or is it bad?
 
Seagates HDDs are always good :)

Seagate and Samsung HDDs are my favourite ones. They're cheap, fast, silent and reliable.
 
Seagate is known industry-wide for being one of the most reliable drives out there, they're also very quiet. They are not known however for being the best performing drive out there, although the 7200.7 series that I've started using does perform quite well. Seagate are the only IDE drives I use... I still have my 32 megabyte drive from the early 90's that still works :)
 
tdg said:
I still have my 32 megabyte drive from the early 90's that still works :)
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Heh, my Seagate 40 MB HDDs > your 32 MB HDD ;)
 
Elledan said:
Heh, my Seagate 40 MB HDDs > your 32 MB HDD ;)
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Well I got two 550 MB Seagate SCSI disks still in service too, so that > your 40 MB's
:D
 
tdg said:
Well I got two 550 MB Seagate SCSI disks still in service too, so that > your 40 MB's
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Well, if we're going to compare in terms of size, then a 120 GB Seagate HD would win, wouldn' t it? :p

How old are those SCSI disks, anyway? Methinks that those 32/40 MB HDDs are both older and luckier to have survived this long (being IDE drives and all).
 
that's funny, I just bought a 200gig Seagate and it was corrupted by week 3
 
...and you're running generic value ram. Just wow. Have had a SATA 7200.7 160GB for 6 months, no problems, love it. Use real ram; Kingston at the minimum. I prefer Corsair, but that's just a matter of habit.
 
Seagate makes great drives, but no manufacturer is 100% free of bad drives. That may be why yours was corrupted, you're one of the people that got unlucky. Any arguments about this are pretty pointless because most drives today are the same way, with some exceptions like the DeathStar.

...and you're running generic value ram. Just wow. Have had a SATA 7200.7 160GB for 6 months, no problems, love it. Use real ram; Kingston at the minimum. I prefer Corsair, but that's just a matter of habit.
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I'd say it's more than just generic ram. We've all run less than desired RAM at times, not all of us have a couple hundred bucks to buy the top quality Corsair stuff. For this hard drive, maybe a bad drive or user error sound more likely. For that situation of the 200 giger going bad, that was probably it. Becuase...come on, who buys a 3000+?
 
No, but it's ALWAYS worth it to buy quality stuff. I love it when people skimp and try to overclock, then wonder why stuff stops working... And quality ram isn't expensive (Corair makes value stuff, too). Just means you buy something reputable- when someone says 'no name this' or 'something no one's heard of that' I just kinda laugh, I know it's a mistake, I've done it.
 
I have a 30gb drive from Seagate. Had it for years (I think around 3) now and it's still working. Pretty good drives I must say.

Although, I would like to get me a pair of Raptors.
 
Yeah, I'd love some Raptors as well. Anyone know why other companies aren't making 10,000 rpm SATA drives to combat the Raptors? The Raptors are probably making WD a bundle...
 
Other companies are not making 10,000 RPM SATA drives because they make 10,000RPM SCSI drives, and making hte SATA drive would cannabalize their nice profic SCSI market. Western Digital makes no such SCSI drives, and therefore has no market to cannabalize; other than their competitor's.
 
Elledan said:
Heh, my Seagate 40 MB HDDs > your 32 MB HDD ;)
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I had a 20mb Seagate that was up for ten years, except for a few power outages.
That > your 40 MB HDDs! :p


The Mac SE that it was in was up that long, too. I finally gave it to an old guy who used it for several more years. I think he died, and both the Mac and the Seagate retired in perfect working order...no bs.


Now, I can't work a Mac...not that I want to. :D


P.S. I just bought a 7200rpm 120gig IDE Seagate, but it isn't here from Newegg, yet. We'll see if it stands the test of time. If it goes only five years, I'll be happy. :)
 
still occasssionally attach a 2GB Seagate I got used
to backup stuff

true about who makes SCSI
Financial Reports\Forcasts Indicate WD is doing really good
while everyone else is in trouble (enterprise level overproduction)
which of course is good for us (if your buying SCSI)
 
Meh, SCSI wont beat my 7200.7 for price/performance :)

though I was always curious about scsi- never needed to waste that much cash on hard drives.
 
IdiotInCharge said:
Other companies are not making 10,000 RPM SATA drives because they make 10,000RPM SCSI drives, and making hte SATA drive would cannabalize their nice profic SCSI market. Western Digital makes no such SCSI drives, and therefore has no market to cannabalize; other than their competitor's.
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although that is true to a certain degree, SCSI drives can still do what SATA drives cannot.....and that is daisy-chain multiple drives to a single data channel. it would probably be more expensive to buy enough SATA controller cards to support 15+ SATA hard drives than it would be to buy one dual-channel SCSI card, and each SCSI channel would support multiple drives.
 
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