dragonfly January 24, 2008 Share dragonfly Member January 24, 2008 So I am thinking about one of these two options: WD 500GB 16mb 7200 - 3yr warranty - $99 OR Seagate 500GB 32mb 7200.11 - 5 year - $125 I've only used WD before, and I love them, never had troubles with them. Anyone love their Seagates, (but have owned both)? Is the extra cache and warranty worth $25? Honestly, I dont care about the warranty that much, since I'm only using this as a drive for recording music. I need XP for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie January 24, 2008 Share mookie GC Alumni January 24, 2008 Owned one Caviar that doesn't work right, and have four Barracudas that all work fine. It's hard to say if a SE16 which is what I assume you're looking at is on par with a 7200.11, mainly because I don't understand WD's naming scheme very well. Looking at Newegg I see Caviars priced below Barracudas and Caviars priced above them as well. Somehow I doubt if most of us can notice the difference between most of these drives in terms of speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack January 24, 2008 Share bushwack Member January 24, 2008 Wow HDD are getting cheaper everyday like RAM. The WD seems like a great deal. The 32mb Seagate seems interesting, I didn't know that 32bm drives were out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie January 24, 2008 Share mookie GC Alumni January 24, 2008 Wow HDD are getting cheaper everyday like RAM. The WD seems like a great deal. The 32mb Seagate seems interesting, I didn't know that 32bm drives were out. Yeah it's amazing; I recall spending $100 or so on a 120GB UATA drive not that long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless January 24, 2008 Share Clueless GC Alumni January 24, 2008 I bought a Seagate about a month ago...a bit noisier than I would have expected for a "top quality" drive. I don't notice any speed difference at all...but I don't tax it other than gaming. Probably a good drive..(I hope)....but my WD in my other tower that is less than a year old is MUCH quieter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly January 24, 2008 Author Share dragonfly Member January 24, 2008 I'm leaning towards the WD since I already have several drives (4) in my pc and dont want things much louder than they already are. Wow, thanks for the quick responses though guys! I'll decide tomorrow I guess. Bed time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack January 24, 2008 Share bushwack Member January 24, 2008 Review of the Seagate, dosn't look good. My 2 year old DiamondMax 10 is faster. I was wanting to get a new drive too shorten my TF2 load times but it doesn't seem like drives have really gotten any faster for game load times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless January 24, 2008 Share Clueless GC Alumni January 24, 2008 I cant wait until they perfect and bring the price down on the solid state drives....then we will be smokin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie January 24, 2008 Share mookie GC Alumni January 24, 2008 Review of the Seagate, dosn't look good. My 2 year old DiamondMax 10 is faster. I was wanting to get a new drive too shorten my TF2 load times but it doesn't seem like drives have really gotten any faster for game load times. That's a review for a Barracuda ES2 not a 7200.11. The article even talks about how it should be faster than a 7200.11, but apparently isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo January 24, 2008 Share anonymo Member January 24, 2008 Wait am I reading this right? 32mb cache? 0.11 more RPMs? I have never and will never buy anything but WD and avoid SG, Maxtor and Hitachi like the plague (have had bad experiences with all of them). Further research has lead me to believe that 32mb cache is a gimmick and probably won't provide any noticeable performance gain over the loss in build quality. Can't find anyone who can adequately explain how 0.11 RPMs could possibly be worth paying for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly January 24, 2008 Author Share dragonfly Member January 24, 2008 I think the .11 is revision 11 or something like that. There's .10 on some drives for them, just a naming scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie January 24, 2008 Share mookie GC Alumni January 24, 2008 Wait am I reading this right? 32mb cache? 0.11 more RPMs? I have never and will never buy anything but WD and avoid SG, Maxtor and Hitachi like the plague (have had bad experiences with all of them). Further research has lead me to believe that 32mb cache is a gimmick and probably won't provide any noticeable performance gain over the loss in build quality. Can't find anyone who can adequately explain how 0.11 RPMs could possibly be worth paying for. Maybe reread this stuff after a lot more coffee. 7200.11 is a name for the line of hard drives, like 7200.10, 7200.9, 7200.8, and 7200.7 before it. Of course you wouldn't know this because you've been busy avoiding the market leader like the plague. As to the cache all I can say is this... 640k is all anyone will ever need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 24, 2008 Share Cujo Member January 24, 2008 i have 6 of the WD drives. make sure you get the aaks models as they're the quick ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters January 24, 2008 Share stutters GC Alumni January 24, 2008 not true. i noticed +.22mb/s bandwidth on my 7200.11 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo January 24, 2008 Share anonymo Member January 24, 2008 640k is all anyone will ever need. Don't be surprised if that becomes true. Also, you're on my "trolled" list now! Trap wasn't for you but I caught myself a keeper today! At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[LaW]Maverick January 24, 2008 Share [LaW]Maverick Member January 24, 2008 My brother (you remember him as [LaW]Bilbo) works in the electronic crimes task force of the secret service. (in case you didn't read that before in my anti-PayPal posts) Anyway, in his computer forensics lab, the hardest drives to destroy and the ones with the lowest failure rates are, according to him, by far the Seagates. Personally, I've owned both and I have had more trouble with the WD's. My Seagate isn't loud at all..I can't hear it over my case-fans (I have an Antec 900, which isn't ridiculously loud) 90% of the time. MOST of the Western Digital drives I've owned have performed well, however, but I bought two 120 gb drives a couple years back and each worked for 'bout a month. Ever since then I've been a little ticked at them. I tend to lean toward Seagates now because of my brother's recommendation. I do believe he's running 6 TB in his forensic computer, and each person in the lab is up and running with a similar amount of space--so if they know one thing, it'd definitely be HDD's. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie January 24, 2008 Share mookie GC Alumni January 24, 2008 640k is all anyone will ever need. Don't be surprised if that becomes true. I think you're the first person I've seen in a long time not get this joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo January 25, 2008 Share anonymo Member January 25, 2008 640k is all anyone will ever need. Don't be surprised if that becomes true. I think you're the first person I've seen in a long time not get this joke. You just don't understand what I'm getting at, I got the "joke" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaftiel January 25, 2008 Share shaftiel Member January 25, 2008 640k is all anyone will ever need. Don't be surprised if that becomes true. I think you're the first person I've seen in a long time not get this joke. You just don't understand what I'm getting at, I got the "joke" Sure you did. Shaftiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wentz January 25, 2008 Share Wentz Member January 25, 2008 WD all the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill January 25, 2008 Share Flitterkill GC Board Member January 25, 2008 With the .10 series on up they started to use perpendicular ion cochran arrays to encode the data for more dense empackening. In Star Trek terms that is... -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly January 31, 2008 Author Share dragonfly Member January 31, 2008 Well, I decided to wait another week. I caught them between sales and they leaked the new sales page I think, with the wrong prices. SG - 500GB $117.99 WD - 500GB $89.99 I went with WD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uther Pendragon February 1, 2008 Share Uther Pendragon Member February 1, 2008 I went with WD Raptors for the speed but I worry about the longevity of the drive. Seagate is the current relaiblity king if you don't get the low end drives. From now on all my data drives will be Seagate and I used Maxtor for years. We use multi-terabyte HP arrays at my work with FC SCSI, FC SATA and now SAS drives and they are all made by Seagate. We have had only a few drives fail out of approx 500 drives. If you can afford it buy the Seagates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly February 1, 2008 Author Share dragonfly Member February 1, 2008 I went with WD. Thx though! If I'm not satisfied, I could always return it and get the SG. I'm expecting to be happy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo February 1, 2008 Share Cujo Member February 1, 2008 raptors are built like their enterprise drives and come with a 5 yr warranty like the seagates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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