External drives out of WD or Seagate (Australia only please [unable to search])

[Red_Rattler]

# Unable to search at the moment

I've been asked which external drive out of WD Elements (I think that means Western Digital) or Seagate is better. They are roughly the same price, but one is just a very, very, very small dollar dearer but comes with 3 year warranty (Seagate), the other comes with only 1 year.

Or are they both just as good as each other?

One issue they believe of concern with S/gate is that you pay for it, but it only lasts for 31 days, as something about it is a trial only, and then you have to pay again. Not sure what that is about.

(No long essays please on the Seagate issue, just as brief as possible)

 

[meatloaf747]

Six to one, half dozen the other... (I have both). I'd recommend you go with the one that's offering the 3 year warrenty. Keep the box & the receipt in a safe place, just in case you need to claim on the warrenty...

Cheers, Mac...

 

[ESwearingen1966]

I used to use Seagate drives until I had a string of them lose all the data in different computers. I now use Western Digital almost exclusively. As for the "buy it again in 31 days", that probably refers to the built in software for making backups. The first thing I do to a new HDD, internal or external, is format it. That gets rid of any built in software and remaps any bad sectors (even brand new drives have them, it's unavoidable).

Hope this helps...

 

[wreeder]

I have 18 external drives at the moment connected to 6 different computers. All of them use WD drives whether the enclosure was made by WD or not. I wouldn't use anything else.

William

 

[JackDownUnder]

I always use WD

 

[Red_Rattler]

Forget to say that yes I did to go a review page.

Okay thanks,

So far it is N votes for X, N+/- for Y with them leaning towards either X or Y.

 

[johnwhelan]

Toms had a report out of a drive repair company that had many thousand drives to analyse I think they favoured WD.

One reason I run a WD Raptor is it comes with a 5 year warrenty and to be honest the hassles involved in replacing a drive and resetting up the software are such that I prefer to go with something like a Raptor.

Cheerio John

 

[FlyingScottmond]

I have 18 external drives at the moment connected to 6 different computers. All of them use WD drives whether the enclosure was made by WD or not. I wouldn't use anything else.

William

How many terabytes of "interesting footage" is that holding?

 

[Red_Rattler]

Well WD doesn't seem to work. It's 2TB, freezes their computer, the folder My Computer is hard to open, & now the external drive has an error dialogue box.

 

[johnwhelan]

Well WD doesn't seem to work. It's 2TB, freezes their computer, the folder My Computer is hard to open, & now the external drive has an error dialogue box.

You asked a question and the replies that came in were reasonable replies for the general case.

If you provide more specific information we might be able to work through the problem but if you require an instant black and white perfect answer to a specific problem on a specific machine you might do better to take it to a computer store and let them charge you to resolve the problem.

It would save us having to read such comments as "WD doesn't seem to work".

Cheerio John

 

[lewisner]

I had Seagate drives in my old PC and they gave 5 years trouble free service.
I have a WD Velociraptor in my current PC and it has given nearly a years trouble free service.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I saw a 2TB External Hard Drive for $89 ...

What if you had say 3 External hard drives ... one for the installation of TRS2006, another for the installation of TS10, and the third for installation of TS12 ... thus cutting back on the used disc space of your PC's factory internal hard drive ... or would framerate & lag be present when running Trainz off of an External Hard Drive ?

Edit: Someone in a previous thread stated that this worked well, and that he could take his External Hard Drive and play Trainz on a friends PC, far away.

 

[johnwhelan]

I saw a 2TB External Hard Drive for $89 ...

What if you had say 3 External hard drives ... one for the installation of TRS2006, another for the installation of TS10, and the third for installation of TS12 ... thus cutting back on the used disc space of your PC's factory internal hard drive ... or would framerate & lag be present when running Trainz off of an External Hard Drive ?

Depends on the bandwidth of the connection. USB 1.0 you'd want to use the internal hard drive, USB 3 probably wouldn't matter, there are some other options but generally the external drives are more useful for backups.

Cheerio John