04-27-2006, 04:15 PM

Alright, I've got a Dual 1.8Ghz PowerMac G5 with a 250GB hard drive. I'm looking to upgrade so I can edit multiple weddings on one RAID 0 setup. I was wondering if anyone has any praise/horror stories regarding this drive...or if someone wants to recommend me a better one, that's fine too. It's a Seagate Barracuda. So far it has great reviews, but most people always seem to want to justify their purchase and will give rave reviews over a piece of junk...

Thanks.

Edit: Oops, I forgot to put the friggin' link! Here is the link!

04-27-2006, 06:25 PM

I can't comment on that particular drive, but I love Seagate drives. I have a 300GB SATA, and 2 160GB PATA Seagates. Like anything else, you'll find differing opinions, but IMO, my once preferred drives (Maxtor) have gone down the tubes in terms of reliability. I recently grabbed a few Samsung drives (put them in external enclosures), and I'm anxious to see how they hold up long term. But back to Seagate. I don't think you'll go wrong with it.

Mark

04-27-2006, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by geekboy2000

...my once preferred drives (Maxtor) have gone down the tubes in terms of reliability....

That's strange, because Seagate owns Maxtor. Link

Thanks for the info, geekboy.

04-27-2006, 06:59 PM

Seagate just bought Maxtor not that long ago. Maxtor drives were starting to get pretty bad at the end before the buyout. A lot of users on Anandtech Forums were having Maxtor drives dying on them. I had 2 die in a row.

I have had very good luck with Seagate like geekboy2000 stated. I have an 80GB, 2-120GB's and a 160GB SATA, the drive in my older Mini is a Seagate Montmentus, and all have been GREAT drives.

Hope that helps you out.

...Dennis

04-27-2006, 08:17 PM

Another thing I noticed with Maxtor drives vs Seagate (and others) is that they draw more current. I haven't looked at a Maxtor label *real* recently, and I'm writing from memory, but I believe the label on most reasonably current Maxtor drives show900MA to 1000MA (off the 12V line), as opposed to about 500MA for a comparable Seagate. That can add up in a multi-drive system (thinking Windows PC). I also find Seagate drives to be among the quietest out there. I had replaced the Maxtor drive in my TiVo (before dumping TiVo) with a larger capacity Seagate, and it was virtually silent. The Maxtor "chatter" could be heard across the room (with no other ambient noise, of course). Seagate's 5 year warranty isn't hard to take either.

Mark

04-28-2006, 11:59 AM

I've always been fond of Maxtor’s but have read that their quality has gone downhill as of late (I have not bought a HDD from them in over a year). As of right now, all of my Drives are Maxtor’s and I have not had one fail in several years (knock on wood). I also purchased a couple of large (300Mb) Samsung Hard Drives and will be interested to see how well they hold up.

04-30-2006, 01:13 PM

It is not a very good monitor, and for £1600 it is very very overpriced. Not recommended.

04-30-2006, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Bill Gates

It is not a very good monitor, and for £1600 it is very very overpriced. Not recommended.

Uhhh...Thanks?

04-30-2006, 04:34 PM

I currently have an 80GB Seagate in my iMac G3 and it runs nicely, fast and quiet (the iMac is fanless).

I have a 200GB Maxtor drive in a firewire caddy that's rubbish. I only had it a year, but it is noisy and has loads of corrupt warnings (mainly on my windows laptop) and has sometimes shown up as totally empty and needed a reformat.

Summary: Maxtor = useless, Seagate = excellent.