which 1 TB hard disk to purchase!
 

Hi!I

I am planning to purchase a 1 TB external hard disk. I am finding it to decide between Western Digital and Seagate. Any suggestions?

Thanking in advance,

western digital

It's a matter of personal experience and taste. I would buy Seagate.

I have had excellent performance and durability with Western Digital. My preference would be Western Digital.

Anyone here using Transcend 1 TB external hdd? If so, how do you rate this one.

BTW the OP is inquiring about external not internal drives.

As already stated it is a matter of taste. I have both but prefer Seagate too.

The external ones I have are also seagate.

Thank you all for your valuable and prompt suggestions!

For what its worth, I have both WD(250GB) and Seagate(500GB) since more than 2 years, all's well so far.
Its just a matter of getting a right deal at your location.

Regards.

Western Digital. I've had multiple Seagate drives fail on me when still new.

I've had multiple WD drives fail on me... Seagate never failed me.
I guess nobody has a proper sample size :( Someone should make a database. Until then prolly go with the cheapest one with a warrenty.
My main priority for home pc use is noise level. If you have a somewhat decent cpu fan and power supply, the hard drives become the main source of noise pollution.

All hard drives can fail. The RMA process with WD is straightforward. The RMA with Seagate is a pita.

I don't know what an RMA or a pita is, but I like to make sure that I can return broken hardware to the store I bought it from and have them deal with it. Even amazon handles that for you if you insist... at least in EU. Just check the return policies.

I'd go for WD but I'd keep away from the "Green" disks.
I've had 5 of those that got bad blocks within a year so know I'm using "Black" and so far none of those has any errors on them.

Good point, OP is from India, we have no clue how warranties work there. Here in the US we can buy from low-price internet stores like newegg.com. Since Newegg is inexpensive they cannot afford to pay for returns, customer has to pay. With WD I simply can go to the WD site, type in the serial and request an RMA (return merchandise authorization). They will ship out the new drive with return package slip, when your new drive arrives you simply use the return slip to ship the bad drive back. (At least this is how it was a couple of years ago.) With Seagate you go thru hell of paperwork.

Oh that's good to know!

Just my two bits, rather than having a WD vs Seagate discussion, you'd have to compare individual models and get some data. In particular you might want to distinguish between "enterprise versions" or "consumer versions", the former - supposedly - having a much longer MTBF, but with commensurate cost. The consumer drives are not designed for continuous use, ie in a server, but more for desktop use, ie not on all the time, or so I've read from various sources. Does anyone in the community really have any data to verify these claims?

Best disks ever was on old MFM drive made by IBM that I had, 30 MB, gigantic, and it outlasted several generations of newer drives...

Agree about Amazon.. if it's a recent purchase. If not and you need to use the warranty, then:
RMA = return merchandise auth, you call the company, they authorize a return, send you a mailing label to pack the device back to them.
pita = pain in the anal regions

Don't tell me about MFM, when I got home late and turned my puter on my wife woke up in a room across hallway ...