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[hotsecretary]

Unfortunately... I personally feel the Seagate consumer drives aren't as good as they used to be.


I feel they've focused more on the Server/SAS market... that's why I recommend the WD these days as I have no problems with them. But then again I'm running 2 Seagates in my NAS


As for a NAS... I personally love my QNap! But that Drobo looks like a nice little unit if you don't need all the bells and whistles, if you do take a look at QNap NAS'

[EdN]

Unfortunately... I personally feel the Seagate consumer drives aren't as good as they used to be.


I feel they've focused more on the Server/SAS market... that's why I recommend the WD these days as I have no problems with them. But then again I'm running 2 Seagates in my NAS

I've been a dedicated user of Maxtor hard drives for many, many years. Maxtor has been bought out by Seagate and I've used them and have had ZERO problems in almost 20 years.


Like you, I'm also concerned with Maxtor hard drives as a couple of generations ago, they've had high failure rates. Seagate use to be a durable brand and I'm now hearing problems with them too.


So last week, I was shopping for 1 TB hard drives to back up photos and the best deal I got was Western Digital's 1 TB USB/eSata/FW400 drive. I bought one of them and 2 -500 gig USB portable drives to copy critical images for storage in a safety deposit box. I was a bit disappointed in the back-up speed with USB and FW. It took over 24 hours to back up 300 gig and a friend told me that perhaps the drive is formated with such a small block size to squeeze 1TB onboard that speed is badly compromised. It seemed my old 320 gig Maxtor External USB/FW drive was WAY faster.


Anyways, I'm breathing easier now that everything is backed up again but still haven't done the safety deposit thing yet.

[hotsecretary]

If you have the option... eSATA is very very fast, USB 1.0 is dreadfully slow!!! Turtle slow!

USB 2.0 isn't too bad, but still slow.. eSATA is the best you'll do these days really.

[Alan]

Unfortunately... I personally feel the Seagate consumer drives aren't as good as they used to be.
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I had an internal Seagate (less than a year old) that failed. It contained a year's worth of my photos. The computer warned me that its failure was imminent, so I barely got the stuff off. Then, it failed. I was almost prepared to send the drive to a recovery lab, but my fortunes were with me before that expensive move.


I use WD Green drives. Never had an issue with them yet.

[hotsecretary]

Knock on wood!


I've thankfully never ever had a PC drive die on me at home, but working in IT I've seen all kinds die I typically replace my PC all the time and now that I have the NAS I have the luxury of having some nice Velociraptor drives as my primary OS / gaming drives in Raid0.

But I will say the Seagate SAS drives seem to be pretty reliable with the hundreds we use in our servers, I've personally replaced 4 in the past few years.


But for home PC I'm with you, I will stick with WD until they fail me... I have a Green one that's been in my Media PC which I never ever shut off and it's used on a daily basis to watch TV/movies and it's running like a charm and uses less power!