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Originally posted by jdat You have to keep in mind that despite the case being aluminium, plastic or what not it still contains a hard drive, and that is what's fragile.

The reason for thin aluminium because these produce heat?



Yea same for me since I have never had any issues with either brand of harddrives I have 400gig SATA, a 160 WD SATA and 80 Maxtor SATA and the my Mactors been through rough shit and not once has it failed on me


Seagates

The have the best internal harddrive out there trust I am luving my 400GB SATA V2 model is so fast

The External harddrives are slow and had the most returns more at my job (Best Buy)Plus the model looks so Ugly

400GB


160GB



Western Digital

Is the average harddrive so there a hit or miss when is comes down to it there external and internal

But they have a Premuim My Book External edition which has Daul looks HOTTT!

500GB
Dual FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces


The Essential ones are Green color and the Premuin ae blue and red?


Maxtor

The have really good internal hard drives but shoot out kore heat then both Seagate and Western Digital


Now they have the best Extrenal Harddrives and there new Maxtor One Touch III rocks

Maxtor OneTouch III 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive



High-speed USB 2.0 interface; backwards compatible with USB 1.1

Maximum data transfer rates up to 480 Mbps via USB 2.0
16MB cache buffer

7200 rpm for fast read/write times

<9 ms average seek time

Maxtor OneTouch technology backs up your files with the push of a button

Maxtor DriveLock protects your files in case of accidental loss or unauthorized use

System Rollback rolls your PC system settings back to a better point in time while still keeping your data current

Automatic data synchronization between 2 or computers

Soft-touch exterior makes portability safe and easy

If you got some dough

Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition 1TB External FireWire and USB 2.0 Hard Drive



Dual high-speed USB 2.0 and FireWire (400 and 800) interfaces; connect up to 62 FireWire devices or up to 127 USB 2.0 devices with USB hubs

High-speed USB 2.0 interface; backwards compatible with USB 1.1

Maximum data transfer rates up to 480 Mbps via USB 2.0; up to 400 Mbps via FireWire 400; up to 800 Mbps via FireWire 800

16MB cache buffer

7200 rpm for fast read/write times

<9 ms average seek time

Maxtor OneTouch technology backs up your files with the push of a button

Maxtor DriveLock protects your files in case of accidental loss or unauthorized use

Includes EMC Dantz Retrospect Express HD backup software with the power to roll back systems to a healthy state, retrieve deleted files and recover individual files

User configurable RAID 0 or RAID 1

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Originally posted by Sunsnail To be honest there's probably not much difference in hard drive companies. Sometimes people get one or two bad hard drives in a row from a certain company and they will hate them forever

There comes a point in time when you have to accept consistent bad quality over coincedental crashes. I've had 3 Western Digitals and all of them have failed on me. Plain and simple WD sucks.

For the threadstarter, get a seagate or maxtor.

I've owned WD hard drives, for the last ten years - not one failure.

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Originally posted by EXTREMUM I've owned WD hard drives, for the last ten years - not one failure.

good to know!

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I thought about getting the WD500gb and read mixed reviews too. Lacie costs $50 more. I've always had good luck with Lacie and they're built well. Of course you have to take bad reviews with a grain of salt since most of the ppl who are happy don't take the time to post a positive review. I've also read that 500gb drives are more susceptible to corruption because the data is packed so tightly together. As far as not being able to remove the drive thats not a big deal because its usually not worth replacing a drive. there are size/type issues.

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Originally posted by DrunkenMaster16 ive owned 2 WD's in my life.. both have faild with in 3 - 6 months of ownership. segate or maxtor

Maxtor?
Oh gawd, those drives are horrible.

Western Digital did a have a bad rep with their >80Gig HDD, that I can atest to but since then, they've seen to cleaned up their act.

Seagate is definately a high recommendation

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I bought the Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 250GB. This is so great to have when backing up all your files, The only downside is that my current system only supports USB 1.0 and transfering files to it takes forever when transfering over 1GB of stuff. These drives perform better with USB 2.0 since 1.0 is 12Mbps while 2.0 is 480Mbps.

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