Western Digital or Seagate?

by **Chris Edwards** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 5:39am

I'm getting a 80GB HD to hook up to my laptop for DVD ripping and stuff... Would you guys suggest the Western Digital 80GB drive w/8mb cache, or the Seagate 80GB w/2mb cache (we're talking IDE drives).

I'm hooking them up to my laptop via firewire.

by **Jadam** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 5:43am

by **Chris Edwards** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 5:47am

by **Jadam** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 5:51am

by **Chris Edwards** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 6:31am

http://www.ncix.com/canada/productdetail.php?sku=6999

I was going to get that... My firewire port on my laptop is 4pin, so it doesn't supply power to the device (so i need an enclosure with a power supply).

by **Jadam** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 6:34am

heh, sucks having four pin doesnt it :-P

i got a 6pin on my ibook. thats pretty cool though, make sure it has the oxyford bridge, its the best/fastest IDE-FireWire Chipset Bridge.

by **Chris Edwards** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 7:04am

I'd rather have 4pin than an ibook

by **(TSC)Bender** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 1:30pm

by **refractor** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 4:15pm

The special edition Western Digital "JB" drives are rather nice. I'd probably go for one of those over a Seagate (though Seagate haven't let me down over the years and I still dislike WDs a bit because of their early drives' loose implementation of the IDE spec, which caused endless compatability problems (but that was years ago (I like brackets today))).

Quantums are the drives that I've blown up most (or had die on me), but then they were bought out by Maxtor a while back.

by **Mechcommander** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 4:42pm

Yes, I would go with Seagate. And never, ever, ever go with Fujitsu, grrrr... My 17GB Fujitsu drive died last night.

by **James S** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 5:12pm

Hrmm... I'd probably get the Seagate, too.

by **damian** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 6:24pm

by **David Horn** » Nov 7, 2002 @ 7:12pm

I currently run a 60GB Seagate - excellent speed, and great reliability. I've used Seagate for 6 years, and never had a drive die on me.

by **Warren** » Nov 8, 2002 @ 12:52am

by **(TSC)Bender** » Nov 8, 2002 @ 3:23am

Or the 200 GB version :twisted:

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