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silverwolf0
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I just lost a 1TB simpledrive from Hitachi that was partly my fault because I had put it on the floor and knocked it over on its side. Even so, I am avoiding Hitachi now as the reviews for it are universally bad and I don't think a small knock like that should kill a drive while it is on idle. The deathstar failure that I had from my old IBM drive is also coming back to haunt me, so no more Hitachi for me.
I am trying to decide between the WD 2TB external and the Seagate 2TB external. The WD has something called Smartware that some people claim is very annoying, so that's a con. The Seagate has two versions, the older silver/white one that stands up and the newer dark color one that lays flat. The newer one supposedly has the cheaper 5900rpm green drive, that has very bad reviews. I am not so sure about the silver one. I have an identical looking silver one that is 1TB that I bought a year ago, still working flawlessly, but don't know what type of drive is in the newer silver one and thus wary that it might be the 5900rpm one that is so badly reviewed also.
An alternative would also be for me to just buy an external case and an internal drive, which I had done very successfully with a rosewill+seagate before that drive got stolen. I still have the simpledrive case with the dead drive inside, but not dare using that thing again. In this case, which internal 2TB drive specifically should I buy? I am looking for the most reliable, and I top out at 20MB/sec on USB regardless so speed is not a concern.
I am trying to decide between the WD 2TB external and the Seagate 2TB external. The WD has something called Smartware that some people claim is very annoying, so that's a con. The Seagate has two versions, the older silver/white one that stands up and the newer dark color one that lays flat. The newer one supposedly has the cheaper 5900rpm green drive, that has very bad reviews. I am not so sure about the silver one. I have an identical looking silver one that is 1TB that I bought a year ago, still working flawlessly, but don't know what type of drive is in the newer silver one and thus wary that it might be the 5900rpm one that is so badly reviewed also.
An alternative would also be for me to just buy an external case and an internal drive, which I had done very successfully with a rosewill+seagate before that drive got stolen. I still have the simpledrive case with the dead drive inside, but not dare using that thing again. In this case, which internal 2TB drive specifically should I buy? I am looking for the most reliable, and I top out at 20MB/sec on USB regardless so speed is not a concern.