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New hard drive: WD or HItachi?
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I need to replace a dead IDE drive in a firewire enclosure.
Which way should I go?
Western Digital or a HItachi Travelstar?
They both have a 3 year warranty and are about the same price on Newegg.
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With Seagate you can get a 5-year warranty instead of a 3-year...
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For every brand of hard drive, you'll find some people who love it and others who have had problems with it.
That said, I also like Seagate.
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Third on Seagate.
I've had a number of WD drives go south on me relatively fast but all my Seagates are still kicking.
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Then Seagate it is.
Now where apart from Newegg is a reliable and competitivly priced place to consider buying from?
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Actuall, Newegg is very good, and they ship superfast.
Why are you looking for an alternative?
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I jsut more familiar with the Western Digital .
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As long as there aren't any Mac incompatibility issues with the models I'm considering, I don't really care which brand of drive I'm buying.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Originally Posted by Veltliner 
Actuall, Newegg is very good, and they ship superfast.
Why are you looking for an alternative?
Because i want to know of other options and because i asked?
Anyway, I found ZipZoomFly Directron and TigerDirect.com to have prices inline with newegg if not better for HDDs
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Another vote for Seagate here.
Recently got a new Seagate and it runs find not compatibility problems (if you are going Barracuda then get at least the 10 series as i think a few 9 series had a few problems with macs)
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Originally Posted by nikstar101
Recently got a new Seagate and it runs find not compatibility problems (if you are going Barracuda then get at least the 10 series as i think a few 9 series had a few problems with macs)
Nik
So something labeled Barracuda 7200.9 would have issues?
Because the enclosure in question can't take anything larger than a PATA 120-160gb drive
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I think there was a little issue with them, something about the firmware on the drive made it use this feature that was not compatble with Macs (I cannot remember exactly but i might only be an issue with PowerMac G5s). But if you are buying new i don't think there are even any 7200.9 kicking about anymore. I have a 7200.10 and that works fine.
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Originally Posted by nikstar101
I think there was a little issue with them, something about the firmware on the drive made it use this feature that was not compatble with Macs (I cannot remember exactly but i might only be an issue with PowerMac G5s)
G5's used Serial ATA
This has all been about PATA drives
i don't think there are even any 7200.9 kicking about anymore.
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 3.5" 7200RPM 120GB UDMA 100 8MB - Upgrade Your Mac
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I have had several Seagates, WD's and Maxtor's in everything from a B&W G3 to my current QS, which curently has 2 (SATA) Raptors, 1 IBM, and 1 Maxtor in it. My peecee has 2 Seagates + 1 SATA Hitachi in it. ALL of these drives have ran flawlessly for the past 2-4 yrs, and never notta problemo 
So, go for the best deal you can find on any of these and you will be happy 
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Personally I find it hilarious that you have the hots for my gramma. Especially seeins how she is 3x your age, and makes your Brittney-Spears-wannabe 30-something wife look like a rag doll who went thru WWIII with a burning stick of dynamite up her a** :)
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