Portable HD: WD vs. SimpleTech vs. Seagate vs....

Hungster wrote in post #6254609
Let me disappoint your seagate lovers, this is based on what i seen in the pass and experience with it

all my SCSI Barracuda and Cheetah are excellent
IDE all barracuda are very good up to date
SATA, 320GB i seen more problem here and there, their ES and ES2 are very well built

the 2.5 inch notebook drives are poorly made, you can talk to people who recover data by the platter
WD and Hitachi are better made
my 100GB Seagate portable drive failed on me after 1 year, no more warranty
i called Seagate up, and they told me nothing they can do, just click click click

it is an USB portable drive, the usb circuitry is very very poor engineered, corrupted data transfer, i called support, they told me it is my computer problem, 5 of my computers, 6 of my laptops all have problem
from IBM, HP, Dell clone all have problem ?

how come i have absolutely no problem with 3 of my SmartDisk 80GB USB drives, none, 2 of my WD passport now are excellent, i will not buy a 2.5 Seagate again

so what you are saying is because you had a seagate fail that all seagate HDs are bad ?

ed rader

Seagate are excellent, but for a portable drive, you can't beat the Lacie rugged drive. Connected firewire 800, it's blazingly fast.

I think I will stick to my seagate. At best, WD offered to upgrade my HD to a 750gb HD, but I have to pay for the data recovery.

Dang it, guess I'm back to using post-it notes again.

why don't you go and visit some of the data recovery guy who actually take out hd and work on them

i am referring to 2.5 seagate

Hungster wrote in post #6255489
why don't you go and visit some of the data recovery guy who actually take out hd and work on them

i am referring to 2.5 seagate

i live in silicon valley. for xmas a couple of years back i got an external seagate HD for from a ceo of a semiconductor company who's a 40-year veteran of the industry.

he thinks seagate makes the best, and that's good enough for me .

ed rader

I usually go with seagate, but it makes so little of a difference, just go with what is cheaper and availiable, as long as it has a seagate, WD, or samsung disk IMO

SYS wrote in post #5474964
Okay, the price was too good, so I got a 320gb WD "Passport Essential" for $104 today. Since I have a 30 day store return policy, I'll use and test it until my overseas travel on May 30. Thank you for all your input!

You should have got 2, one to back up the other.

I use a WD Passport. Works great and travels with me quite well.