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Posted 2009-02-23, 07:35 AM in reply to Goodlookinguy's post starting "By performance, he means speed. The..."
As a general rule of thumb, be careful with new Seagate drives - after acquiring Maxtor, they dropped their more expensive manufacturing processes and adopted the cheaper Maxtor processes, which has lead to a massive decrease in quality. The entire range of 1.5TB drives is faulty because of the change in manufacturing processes.

Saying that, my terrabyte drive is OK, as are my two 250s (and my two 160s, but they're three years old), and all of them are Barracuda's.
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Posted 2009-02-23, 08:49 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "As a general rule of thumb, be careful..."
Lenny said: [Goto]
As a general rule of thumb, be careful with new Seagate drives - after acquiring Maxtor, they dropped their more expensive manufacturing processes and adopted the cheaper Maxtor processes, which has lead to a massive decrease in quality. The entire range of 1.5TB drives is faulty because of the change in manufacturing processes.

Saying that, my terrabyte drive is OK, as are my two 250s (and my two 160s, but they're three years old), and all of them are Barracuda's.
Is there another brand of HDD's you reccommend? I would like better quality over space. (i don't use that much space), and speed is nice of course. But, of course price is important too.

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Posted 2009-02-23, 01:24 PM in reply to Wolfturn's post starting "Is there another brand of HDD's you..."
Personally, I'd still choose Seagate drives over the others, but if you want to look, then you won't go wrong with Hitachi or Western Digital.
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Posted 2009-02-23, 03:39 PM in reply to Lenny's post starting "Personally, I'd still choose Seagate..."
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Personally, I'd still choose Seagate drives over the others, but if you want to look, then you won't go wrong with Hitachi or Western Digital.
Ok! Great, because I had already ordered the Seagate Drive. From what some of the people say on the site(tigerdirect), it looks like a pretty fast, quiet drive. I hope it lives up to its expectations.

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