Seagate vs. Western Digital

[dickyjoe]

Hi All,

I am looking at a new 1TB disk for my FreeNAS server. Just wondering what people thought of the Seagate SATAII 7200RPM 1TB drives vs. the Western Digital SATAII 7200RPM 1TB drives. The Seagate has a 32MB buffer and the WD has a 16MB.

So I guess the Seagate is technically better but I have always lent towards WD since losing a bunch of Seagate disks in the early 2000's.

Rich

[incisor]

seagate 5yr warranty vs WD 3 year warranty

seagate have a lot lower death rate to boot...

[maca]

Iam with incisor, I have had some bad luck with WD's failing very quickly in office environments.
Where as I use Seagates in our embedded controllers (Hot and some vibrations) and haven't had any failures (However I do regularly retire drives, so I don't have in service failures).

and 32M cache!

[Distortion]

Seagates are normally great but I'm replacing my 1TB drives with Western Digitals after I had 2 1TB drives die both of them 7200.11s with the 5 year warrenty

The problem was traced back to firmware bugs see the thread below but they way seagate responded to the problem initally made me decide to change

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Firmware Issues - Internal (ATA and Serial ATA) drives - Seagate Community Forums (http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=9060)

the drives which failed are less than a month old

[incisor]

i have had 1 @ seagate 1tb drive die out of just under 100 sold and all 3 WD that i sold when i couldnt get seagate stock have failed...

i'll be staying with seagate thanks...

[Distortion]

Interesting

I've always used the seagates usually without problem the 2 drives which failed were bought at different times from different shops so I didn't think it was just a bad batch but maybe it was.

I know the firmware issue is fixed as I've updated the other drives and they are fine now. it's only once they've stopped completely that you can't recover them

Anyone had any experience with the samsung drives because from what incisor said i'll have to do some more reading into WD failures :)