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Hardrive brand question
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Of those 2 I'd go for the Maxtor because I'd rather deal with an actual hard drive manufacturer if anything went wrong than with a company who are just putting someone else's drives into a box with their name on it.0
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i think its quite an old maxtor drive so would probably be before mator segate tie up if that helps0
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Which Barracuda batch was this? They are still not on sale are they?It also depends on the model, and when it was made. For no good reason disks from a particular batch may 'go off' quicker than others. The Seagate Barracuda firmware in recent times was a disaster. Before and after that level, they were reliable drives!0 -
Maxtor is part of Seagate now.Id go with Maxtor (But if I was to buy one myself id go with Seagate, Western Digital or Hitachi)
So it is a used drive? or just made a really long time ago?i think its quite an old maxtor drive so would probably be before mator segate tie up if that helps0 -
Take a look at the new Samsung F3 1TB drive -very fast and no more expensive than other drives of its size
-some places even have it cheaper than the older F1
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Maxtor were taken over by Seagate a few years ago I believe but there are still new products being sold under the Maxtor brand. I deal with lots of computers where I work and back when they were separate companies I had far more failures of Maxtor drives than Seagate ones. Hopefully the merger has brought Maxtor reliability up rather than dragged Seagate reliability down.
I've not encountered a failed Samsung drive yet but their relativity small market share probably has a lot to do with that.
NB Past results are not an indication of future performance!0 -
See this Register article (and also note the Update at the top)...Which Barracuda batch was this? They are still not on sale are they?0 -
If it's a Sata drive i.e. Seagate, you can freely back up your whole system via http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard.catch220
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its a usb external hard drive0
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