Seagate already has their 1x500GB platter out. I don't see what's stopping them from releasing their 2TB or even 2.5TB drive any day now as well. Personally, I'd rather have a 2TB Seagate over a WD.
I'm generally a fan of Seagate drives, but the 1.5TB drive appears to have some issues, locking up for multiple seconds at a time, especially in RAID configurations. Just look at the reviews on newegg.com. Even the recent posts with a newer flash update are continuing to show the problem, which even Tom's Hardware has written about. The Seagate might not be a good idea for a while.
I used to agree with you. I used to be a WD fan boy but my story is like many others. I've never had a Seagate drive fail, I have had a WD drive fail. I have 2 1.5TBs Seagates and love them. I know of the RAID problems. The 2TB Seagates will be based on the 12th generation instead of the 11th as the 1.5TB drives. Hopefully Seagate has learned from the mistakes of the 7200.11 1.5TB. I'm betting them have.
I have been put off from Seagate after my 6 month old 7000.10 series 700GB drive failed spectacularly. The laminate they used on the surface flaked off and got under the heads. The drive ended up only 10% retrievable in the end. Until I know that they are not using the same technology or anything like it I wont be trusting them for a while. 600Gb of data gone. I was not amused.
really? i have never had issues with WD but had major issues with seagate. never buying from them again. and it was a huge pain in the ass just to send in my drive to get replaced. and with my older server motherboard it was a pain to cap the sata to 1.5. the piece of crap software i had to download AND put on another computer was written wrong. the menu was backwards. 1.5 to 3.0 was actually 3.0 to 1.5 (and vice versa). some dyslexic programmer. WD just needed a jumper. and all my seagate drives run about 10 degrees hotter than my WDs. i wanted to get a seagate 1.5tb but decided to wait until WD came out with one after my bad experiences. im glad a did because from what i hear on the newegg product reviews they have been horrible.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
You can bet on seeing it soon! And they work!
Seagate already has their 1x500GB platter out. I don't see what's stopping them from releasing their 2TB or even 2.5TB drive any day now as well. Personally, I'd rather have a 2TB Seagate over a WD.
@Pip
Maybe it's just me, but I trust WD more than I trust Seagate.
It's probably not just you, but I'm the opposite, though WD isn't far behind these days, and tend to be quieter the last few generations.
Hitachi is fine, though too loud generally. I'm happy with my Samsung drives, but they don't have enough history for me to form a real opinion.
I'm generally a fan of Seagate drives, but the 1.5TB drive appears to have some issues, locking up for multiple seconds at a time, especially in RAID configurations. Just look at the reviews on newegg.com. Even the recent posts with a newer flash update are continuing to show the problem, which even Tom's Hardware has written about. The Seagate might not be a good idea for a while.
@leo:
I used to agree with you. I used to be a WD fan boy but my story is like many others. I've never had a Seagate drive fail, I have had a WD drive fail. I have 2 1.5TBs Seagates and love them. I know of the RAID problems. The 2TB Seagates will be based on the 12th generation instead of the 11th as the 1.5TB drives. Hopefully Seagate has learned from the mistakes of the 7200.11 1.5TB. I'm betting them have.
@ leo, get your own damn name!
I have been put off from Seagate after my 6 month old 7000.10 series 700GB drive failed spectacularly. The laminate they used on the surface flaked off and got under the heads. The drive ended up only 10% retrievable in the end. Until I know that they are not using the same technology or anything like it I wont be trusting them for a while. 600Gb of data gone. I was not amused.
@pip
really? i have never had issues with WD but had major issues with seagate. never buying from them again. and it was a huge pain in the ass just to send in my drive to get replaced. and with my older server motherboard it was a pain to cap the sata to 1.5. the piece of crap software i had to download AND put on another computer was written wrong. the menu was backwards. 1.5 to 3.0 was actually 3.0 to 1.5 (and vice versa). some dyslexic programmer. WD just needed a jumper. and all my seagate drives run about 10 degrees hotter than my WDs. i wanted to get a seagate 1.5tb but decided to wait until WD came out with one after my bad experiences. im glad a did because from what i hear on the newegg product reviews they have been horrible.