Stay away from Western Digital. It will fail on you
Go for Seagate

why does everyone hate on WD so much? I have some WD drives that are up to 8 years old that still work just fine. However, I have had a Seagate that died on me.

Under a hundred for a TB.Wow.I've never had a WD fail.

Add one more thing to the inevitable list.

1) Death
2) Taxes
3) Storage Failures

Use backups.

I have three internal western digital drives in my desktop computer, ranging back from 5-8 years that are working like champs. What I would stay away from is Maxtor not western digital.

#5, but maxtor is owned by seagate now... so are you telling everyone to stay away from seagate???

#1 - just doesnt know what he is doing when it comes to computers. Seagates run hot as hell, they are more prone to crash than a WD. If I had to, i would buy a seagate over a Deskstar, just cause they havent been good since they took it over from IBM and the IBM drives were total POS drives.
Hope to see 500gb or TB Solid State Drives soon in the near future. 64gb is ok for boot, but sucks for storage.

wow, a secret deal! I gotta have it!


BTW I have 3 WD drives that I've been using between 3-5 years and none have failed me yet <crosses fingers>

32 Meg Cache please

#4 would be correct. I have built over 300 computers. I've had many Western Digitals fail, and almost as many Maxtors. I've had several Seagates die as well. All hard drives fail. Some more than others.

If you have a hard drive that is 5 to 8 years old, I would STRONGLY suggest backing them up right now, and maybe replacing them.

go go gadget hard drive

I've had perhaps 1 in 10 drives fail on me over the years - and most of my drives were put to use for many years before retiring them.

Other than the 1GB drive debacle of the mid-90's, I've always done at least "OK" with WD's. I relied on Maxtors for a long time, but they went down the chute just before they sold out. Since the sale, I just equate them to Seagate.

As a few have said - all drive manufacturer's have failures just like all manufacturers do. Sometimes it's a bad series (such as the aforementioned 1GB unit, which had an astronomical fail rate), and that will usually show up in the reviews on newegg or Amazon - all it says is that the particular series of drive in question is bad. The next may be one of the best drive series ever. Judge by model and basic technology/platter mix, not by manufacturer.

Just reinforces the need to mirror your drives. Buy 2

#7, yes and no...early Seagates were good quality. Haven't owned a Seagate brand recently. If Seagate got rid of all the Maxtor lines, then go with them. If they've kept any of that technology, well let's just say there is a reason why they were sold to some other company.

I've had great luck with both Seagate and Western Digital.

In fact, the only drives I have had fail in the last 8 years where both Maxtor drives, although my remaining Maxtor drive is still running after 7 years of 24x7 use in my DVR.

I used to like Seagate, now I'm all WD. It was about the noise, heat and speed. I upgrade hard drives long before they fail. The last two that I had fail were a Conner and a Maxtor. That was years ago. I had to put down an IBM laptop drive and a Quantum Fireball last year. They hadn't died yet, but they were just taking up space.

This is an attractive drive for HTPCs. For the typical desktop I like the WD 640GB or the 300GB VelociRaptor. If you've got money galore, go SSD. Intel and Samsung have a good start there.

If I am not mistaken, Newegg has WD 1tb with 5 year warranty. It doesn't mean much after you lose your data, but, at least you can get something in return even after 3 years.

#7, 32mb cache won't do you much good at 5400rpm.

#17 is right, WD is a reputable company with quality hard drives. If it does fail, 5 years is a good warranty.

Not bad for a 1TB SATA drive..