Hitachi 0A38016 1 TB SATA II 16 MB 92 bux
Western Digital 10EACS 1 TB SATA II 98 bux
Both carry 3 year warranty. I've got bad feelings about hitachi due to past
experience with just one drive. I'm buying two of these which means I could
save a whopping 12 bux, what does the list think? Any opinions on either
drive? BTW, I won't be RAIDing the drives so the WD will still be ok if
that's the pick.
Polls close early, please vote soon and often.
My vote: Hitachi or Seagate [not Maxtor, not low-end Seagate]. Hitachi
[as well as Seagate] makes its own hardware, or carefully oversees the
manufacturing so that the drives contain exactly what Hitachi dictates,
including the chips inside. When a drive fails, a drive recovery firm
can remove the disk and put it into any other Hitachi drive of the same
model, and then work to recover the data.
Western digital produces specs for their drives, then farms production
out to a variety of manufacturing plants that promise to follow specs.
If a WD drive fails, the data recovery process is more complicated. You
have to have at least a half dozen bare, empty drives before you find
one that can "talk" to the damaged disk.
Both drives are equally reliable--more or less. As long as you back up
your data frequently it doesn't matter. But if your data is critical,
I'd go with reliable drive companies that oversee the manufacture of
their products like Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi/IBM. I will never
buy another Sony drive. Those are the only drives I've used that failed
long before their time. I'm about to replace a Sony DVD-RW drive with a
Pioneer drive to avoid the usual Sony issues.
Save often. Backup often, too.
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