Originally Posted by 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
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.
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