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Seagate Notebook Drives: Reliable?
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I am thinking about getting a seagate momentus 750 gb, 7200 rpm drive.
The capacity is satisfactory and the speed should be excellent.
Now, what about reliability? I did not have a great experience with a seagate external firewire.
Do I have cause for concern? Should I wait for western digital and/or hitachi to catchup in capacity and speed?
My alternatives are:
-samsung 640 gb 7200 rpm drive
-western digital 1 TB, 5200 rpm drive
(Last edited by mackandproud; Nov 29, 2010 at 09:43 PM.
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Every hard drive will fail.
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I've had terrible luck with Seagate drives. 1 laptop drive and 3 desktop drives have failed on me over the past 7 years. All of them Seagate. I've had much better luck with Western Digital and Toshiba drives. AKcrab is correct, hard drives in general are not reliable. Make sure you consistently backup your data.
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If I'm not mistaken, the Seagate 750 GB 2.5" is actually 12.5 mm thick, rather than the standard 9.5 mm. What laptop were you going to put it in?
I've had a WD 500 GB notebook drive fail, didn't last long at all, had it replaced under warranty.
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For a while I was saving dead/failed hard drives that people abandoned. I made piles based on brand. After 6+ samples in each pile, it was a fairly even race.
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Were they similar ages?
That sounds like a useful experiment, dating the drives by their age, and eventually turn it into a spreadsheet. One would have to factor in market sales percentage for each year as well.
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Originally Posted by Stogieman 
I've had terrible luck with Seagate drives. 1 laptop drive and 3 desktop drives have failed on me over the past 7 years. All of them Seagate. I've had much better luck with Western Digital and Toshiba drives. AKcrab is correct, hard drives in general are not reliable. Make sure you consistently backup your data.
I think they're quite reliable considering how little they cost and how much data they hold, but no one promises they're absolutely reliable. They do fail every so often, but they're still impressive technological specimens all told.
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Originally Posted by reader50
Were they similar ages?
That sounds like a useful experiment, dating the drives by their age, and eventually turn it into a spreadsheet. One would have to factor in market sales percentage for each year as well.
That's not a bad idea. If I made a spreadsheet I wouldn't have to keep the stupid things in piles.  I bet I could get my coworker in our bigger store to play along and get a pretty good sample size.
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3-4 years of moderate to heavy usage isn't too much to expect.
I've only had one seagate, and while it was very quiet and fast, it didn't last long.
I would prefer a western digital as far as brands.
And no, the seagate is 9.5, not 12.5.
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