02-28-2004, 08:55 PM
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Which external hard drive?
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02-28-2004, 08:57 PM
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If it was me, I would go for the Maxtor drive, as both are the same capacity, same RPM, and have the same cache, but the Maxtor is $30 cheaper.
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02-29-2004, 07:55 AM
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I would go with the seagate, it has a lower seek time.
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02-29-2004, 07:58 AM
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I would go with Maxtor because that is a quality hard drive. Seagate is just crap. It seems that newer Seagates are quality products again, but unless they prove to run for at least 4 years without problems I don't trust them again. Every Seagate (except one) that my friends and I had is dead.
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02-29-2004, 08:37 AM
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02-29-2004, 05:20 PM
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Of those 2, I'd get the Maxtor for 2 reasons:
1. Cheaper
2. Better than Seagate in my opinion.
They are both 8mb cache drives and are Firewire capable. I much prefer Firewire to USB 2.0, it's a lot less flaky.
However, if I were buying an external prebuilt drive, I'd get this one:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...=BROWSE&depa=1
Yeah, it's expensive, but it's huge and I prefer WD.
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02-29-2004, 05:40 PM
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From the 2 in the beginning I would choose the Maxtor only because they are bette quality than Seagate.
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02-29-2004, 06:33 PM
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Are seagate really that bad? I was looking into buying a new hard drive, and the seagate model was at a higher price than the western digital, and the maxtor, and had better specs.
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02-29-2004, 07:12 PM
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Just because the Seagate was more expensive, doesn't mean its of better, or even equal quality.
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02-29-2004, 07:13 PM
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I know that, I was talking about the higher specs.
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02-29-2004, 07:43 PM
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I prefer proven reliability to raw specs.
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