Seagate 5-yr. warranty vs. WD 3-yr is probably the biggest difference. Price is essentially equal here in Austin after tax and in-store pickup at Fry's.
Does the added RPM make a difference? The specs on Fry's page list latency at 4.16ms and throughput at 115MBps for both hard drives. This makes me believe that factors other than RPM are the bottlenecks.
After checking the Seagate page, it appears that Fry's specs are wrong and the latency for the 5900 is 5.1ms
tante said: has seagate fixed their quality problem yet. The 5 year warranty is nice and all, but it is even better to not have to use a warranty at all.
I wonder that too since I was debating on getting the seagate green drive that was posted yesterday.
This one costs me $7.50 for shipping so for all practical purposes they cost the same. Any thoughts?
At this point, I think its a question whether you want to deal with frys or Newegg. Save $2.50 or get quicker shipping. The drives are just about equal in all performance categories (for the 5900 LP Seagate compared to the WD Green 1.5TB).
Not to start yet another 7200.11 bad firmware thread, but just so that everyone knows, these are the 1.5TB 7200.11 with reported firmware issues. I have 2 of these drives and have had no issues, but if you are going to use these for a raid 5 array, I'd stay away from them.
Seagate does not make any other 1.5TB 7200 rpm drive, at least not yet.
This one costs me $7.50 for shipping so for all practical purposes they cost the same. Any thoughts?
At this point, I think its a question whether you want to deal with frys or Newegg. Save $2.50 or get quicker shipping. The drives are just about equal in all performance categories (for the 5900 LP Seagate compared to the WD Green 1.5TB).
tante said: has seagate fixed their quality problem yet. The 5 year warranty is nice and all, but it is even better to not have to use a warranty at all.
I think it really depends on how you are using it. RAID controllers ( these allow using multiple drives as a single drive for those who don't know) access drives differently that the straight SATA interface. You really should be buying drives that are designed for RAID setups if you are going to implement one. These may be good for mirroring though, just not striped
Appears to be about a 50/50 split of good and "OMG my data is gone!!"
I love being on the cutting edge, but in the case of hard drives I tend to be a little more cautious. I would probably only use these as a backup drive myself, but even still I would still not sleep well at night.
This price is excellent for the model, but I value my data too much.
I've been in IT for 15 years now and don't consider myself a fanboy of any brands and go with what has proven reliability. I've gone between ATI and NVidia, I've gone between AMD and Intel, I've gone between Seagate, Western Digital, IBM (including consoling friends who lost data on the dreaded deathstar drives), Samsung, and others.
In this case I would be wary as there is just too high of a failure rate presented by others. Right now WD is not winning by much, but Samsung has pretty high reviews. See this link for the 1.5 TB options. Just remember to backup your data whatever you do. This is a lot of data to lose.
mddolloff said: tante said: has seagate fixed their quality problem yet. The 5 year warranty is nice and all, but it is even better to not have to use a warranty at all.
I wonder that too since I was debating on getting the seagate green drive that was posted yesterday.
i bought one from frys and it worked great, so i ordered two more and they had to be returned. get the Western Digital Green for $100 at Newegg from the recent post if you plan on using it for storage.
i just had a seagate 500 gb external die with a lot of information i had on it, even though most of it i still have. seagates minimum to get data back is $500.00 - MINIMUM! it can go as high as $3,000.00. The worst part about it is that i only used it for back up every few months, so it was like new.
seagate really sucks lately.
if you buy this one, test it on an external enclosure to see if it gets too hot to touch immediately by loading a ton of files and then formatting it the long way. if you can fry an egg on it, it's obviously not any good.
Good discussion. I was leaning towards the Seagate because I have a 1TB 5900 that hasn't given me problems, but my 1TB EADS WD green drive has failed twice. It's probably a crapshoot.
thinklinux said: watch out!!! Seagate 1.5TB hard drive has lots of defects. don't buy it, you are going to loss all your data. google seagate 1.5tb problems
thinklinux said: watch out!!! Seagate 1.5TB hard drive has lots of defects. don't buy it, you are going to loss all your data. google seagate 1.5tb problemsThose are 7200.11 drives. I don't think these drives are based on that design but are much more like the successor 7200.12 drives, even though they spin at 5900 RPM, not 7200 RPM.
Yes, the firmware issues are mute now. I have two of these drives and they work pefect. Never an issue. Do you really think they could be selling the same bad drive for over a year? Think about what people are saying before helping them spread the lies. Seagate fixed those issues a very long time ago.
looking at the ratings on Newegg, the 1.5 TB from both Seagate and WD are now equally crappy. About 25% of people buying seagate and 20% of WD them rate them a 1 out of 5 (1 being the lowest).
If you are planning on doing a RAID with these servers, it appears that a number of them are freezing for minutes at a time, making the RAID controller think that they are failed and re-distributes that data, which can be bad if another drive freezes. I think as cheap as disk it, it is probably better to go with RAID 1 (or RAID 0) with nightly mirroring.
There are known bios issues with these that cause data misalignment and they have been known to fail- leaking lubricant all over the inside of your PC case. Unless you want pink pudding all over our motherboard I would buy a more solid hard drive.
I need to transfer the OS and other stuff from the old drive to this new one. It's a pain to reinstall everything. Can someone out there give me a hint on what software will do the job?
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kabukicho
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posted: Dec. 30, 2009 @ 9:47p
caseym54 said: I bought 3 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 drives at Fry's during October. $99 each, what a deal! All have now failed. First they start clacking then sectors start going. I'm not sure who to blame: Seagate for dumping the drives on Fry's, or Fry's for selling them.
I do note that my local Fry's now only sells the 5900RPM version. They haven't had the 7200RPM drive for a couple weeks. Too many returns?
yep i prefer the newer 7200.12 from this spring, but i think these only can be found OEM and at 1GB... I own one.
I'm giving the 5900RPM low rpm series a try as of this weekend.
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