Cache Choices

ScottALot

ScottALot

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There is a Hitachi 1TB with 16mb of Cache (75$)
and a Seagate Barracuda with 32mb of Cache (90$)
Which one is the better buy for the average gamer? (for the price)
 
The CAVIAR! That's the name, I couldn't remember the name when I was searching for a hard drive, (all I could think about was Velociraptor)
 
StrangleHold said:
I've only owned three of the F1 500GB. drives and all three were a bunch of junk, after the problems I had with them I will never buy another Samsung drive.
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Ok, you got a bad batch, but WD and Seagate arent indestructible either sadly

If I might ask, what were the problems you had? total failure?
 
Springy182 said:
Ok, you got a bad batch, but WD and Seagate arent indestructible either sadly

If I might ask, what were the problems you had? total failure?
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I know all about bad batches and that Seagate and W/D are not indestructible. Been buying drives for over 16 years. Of the three F1, one just dies right off (dead), the RMA they sent me had the click of death and the other two starting clicking just months later.

I've bought hundreds of drives over the years, not just 3 or 4 like most of the 15 year olds on here. Out of all the brands I have had, the most failures rates were with Hitachi/Maxton. Samsung in the middle. The best have been Seagate and W/D. But the 7200.11 had bad firmware issues and SE16 drives are not much better, but ok for general purpose computers.
 
StrangleHold said:
I know all about bad batches and that Seagate and W/D are not indestructible. Been buying drives for over 16 years. Of the three F1, one just dies right off (dead), the RMA they sent me had the click of death and the other two starting clicking just months later.

I've bought hundreds of drives over the years, not just 3 or 4 like most of the 15 year olds on here. Out of all the brands I have had, the most failures rates were with Hitachi/Maxton. Samsung in the middle. The best have been Seagate and W/D. But the 7200.11 had bad firmware issues and SE16 drives are not much better, but ok for general purpose computers.
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Ive been through prolly ~50 each of both western digital and seagate drives for builds for people, and the 7200.11 i have seen the most failures from. Maxtor definately i have had some bad experiences with, while even worse with toshiba and hitachi. I used to stick with seagates for my personal builds, but with the issues the 7200.11's have had. My current set of 7200.11's worked flawlessly for around a month, one just dies, rma it, and that drive is doa, third rma it finally worked. Then the other drive died a few months back and i just recently replaced it as well, i will probably be going with a set of caviar blacks next time around... Samsung drives are iffy at best, ive seen alot come doa or have clicking issues, although ive only use prolly 30 or so of them, and around half had to be returned because of some sort of issue. Good part with them, is if you get a working drive from the start, they havent had any actual running failures yet.

StrangleHold said:
I've only owned three of the F1 500GB. drives and all three were a bunch of junk, after the problems I had with them I will never buy another Samsung drive.
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Only if you get a doa or clicking drive, if you do get one that works fine, i havent experienced any failures in any of the rigs ive built for people.(yet)
 
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StrangleHold said:
I know all about bad batches and that Seagate and W/D are not indestructible. Been buying drives for over 16 years. Of the three F1, one just dies right off (dead), the RMA they sent me had the click of death and the other two starting clicking just months later.

I've bought hundreds of drives over the years, not just 3 or 4 like most of the 15 year olds on here. Out of all the brands I have had, the most failures rates were with Hitachi/Maxton. Samsung in the middle. The best have been Seagate and W/D. But the 7200.11 had bad firmware issues and SE16 drives are not much better, but ok for general purpose computers.
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Ok you have me on sheer amount of drives purchased, but between the collection of old systems in my basement and other drives I've seen die, the least WD have died in comparison to Seagate and Maxtor, I havent had a Samsung die but apart from my 1TB I have a couple <1GB Samsungs and havent really used either one

Bad batch or not would you prefer Samsung to Maxtor?

Also, 16 years is a lot for a hard-drive, how much of a brands' track record do you take into account?
 
bomberboysk said:
I used to stick with seagates for my personal builds, but with the issues the 7200.11's have had. My current set of 7200.11's worked flawlessly for around a month, one just dies, rma it, and that drive is doa, third rma it finally worked. Then the other drive died a few months back and i just recently replaced it as well
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Are they SD15 firmware by chance?
 
bomberboysk said:
while even worse with toshiba and hitachi. (yet)
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Oh man, I forgot about Toshiba, same as Hitachi. Bad memories


Springy182 said:
Bad batch or not would you prefer Samsung to Maxtor?
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Samsung

Springy182 said:
Also, 16 years is a lot for a hard-drive, how much of a brands' track record do you take into account?
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Not talking about a drive lasting for 16 years, been building computers/buying drives for over 16 years. But I do still have some drives from the mid 90s that do still work. I do take account of the track record of the drives I have used, thats why I really only buy Seagate and W/D now, best track record.
 
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StrangleHold said:
Oh man, I forgot about Toshiba, same as Hitachi. Bad memories




Samsung



Not talking about a drive lasting for 16 years, been building computers/buying drives for over 16 years. But I do still have some drives from the mid 90s that do still work. I do take account of the track record of the drives I have used, thats why I really only buy Seagate and W/D now, best track record.
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I was more referring to whether a brand being good 16 years ago matters much today, I think I stupidly tossed most of my ~200MB WDs a few years back, what's the smallest size drive you have?

I think this drifted waaay off topic
 
It almost turned into a flame war. I'll get the Caviar because I've heard only good things about that and I'm on a budget.
 
Springy182 said:
I was more referring to whether a brand being good 16 years ago matters much today, I think I stupidly tossed most of my ~200MB WDs a few years back, what's the smallest size drive you have?
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I dont know about going 16 years back. Most of the ones I didnt like, I still dont. But the one I have changed my mind about was Samsung. After getting 3 clunker drives in a row turned me off. I dont really know how small they are. About the same maybe some smaller, in the MB size. Still have a bunch of old K-5/6 processors, Pentium I/II/II, Durons. Bunch of Socket 5/7/ AMD/Intel slot boards, probable a drawer full of old SIMMs memory, old ISA and PCI vildeo cards with like 512k memory.:)

Springy182 said:
I think this drifted waaay off topic
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:D:D

ScottALot said:
It almost turned into a flame war. I'll get the Caviar because I've heard only good things about that and I'm on a budget.
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Oh, this is a calm one, dont piss me off.:P
 
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