Seagte VS Western Digital...

[compychump]

SATA is a step above EIDE. Buy SATA unless you want the crazy speeds of SCSI.

 

[yugiohstrife]

i got a seagate 40gig hdd and it works fine but sometimes it says that a file is missing or corrupt but its good when it doesnt stuff up but i reckon go with the western digital, it sounds good lol.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

One of the techs from PC Club told me that the Seagate SATA drives are true SATA and WD SATA drives have a convertor inside that switches between traditional ATA to SATA so there's actually a small delayor bottleneck so to speak on the WD 7200 drives. Does anyone know if this is true or did that guy just made up a bunch of crap to sell the WD drives?

 

[Charchris]

maybe but i don't think you will notice anything i mean like a 1ns delay isn't much

 

[yugiohstrife]

maybe ur right maybe ur wrong

 

[The_Necromancer1]

Seagate Barracudas, I have one, or will have that is, and my bro that 2, 400gb of DL stuff.

 

[yugiohstrife]

though my sister has ben having alot of trouble with her seagate barracuda 200gig sata hdd. it might have a bad sector.

 

[alvino]

Both are good. Seagate is known for their quietness and Western Digital is known for their speed. But both are very good performers. BTW Maxtor is a good brand to consider.

 

[yugiohstrife]

yeah maxtor is good too but i would get a western digital cos i would rather have a fast hdd than a quiet one as long as the comp doesnt wake up the whole neighborhood when using it at night lol.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

I like all the drives and really have no personal preference. I used most of them, Seagates, Maxtor, WD, and IBM. I just like the SATA more than the regular IDE because of increase transfer rates.