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1.5TB have been shipping with working firmware for sometime now. Many FW users have 0 issues with their drives. Stop spreading the firmware fud! That was 2008. It's fine to be cautious, and remind us, but stop spreading lies that it hasn't been fixed or is somehow still bad/broken.
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
Message edited by: barbeque on 2009-10-16 10:51:17 CDT
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.
The 5900rpm drives are so far so good.
Message edited by: oldfartgamer on 2009-10-16 11:18:31 CDT
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.
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