Seagate or Western Digital?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by roddinron, Aug 25, 2005.

  1. roddinron

    roddinron Corporal

    I'm going to add a second hard drive and was ready to buy a 120 gig WD (1200BRTL) at Best Buy for $100 - $40 after rebates, then found out they will have a seagate 160 gig (ST3160023A-RK) next week for $129 - $40 after rebates. I'd like opinions on which brand to choose and why, aside from the fact that the seagate's bigger, which one would you prefer. I'm putting this in an older PC 1gig athlon, 40 gig hd, running windows ME.
    Thanks
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    personal pref ... WD out of those two, but overall maxtor are my generall option as I judge a company not just by cost, performance, quality but by customer service and I have had great CS from maxtor and WD over the years.

    but at the end of the day .... either will do, question is do you want to pay $29 more for 40g more and would you need the extra space?
     
  3. problemswithvaio

    problemswithvaio Corporal

    maxtor by far... :)

    from experience I don't like Western Digital, but that was just once so I can't really tell you between seagate and Western Digital.
     
  4. roddinron

    roddinron Corporal

    thanks for the info guys, you both seem to like maxtor, but before I posted I read a thread where someone said stay away from maxtor. So far I guess there's no clear winner. Also I think I read that older systems like mine can't access more than 120 gigs, is that right?
     
  5. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    The FAT32 filesystem will only allow you to have 32 GB per partition. My Win9x machine at home has a 40GB drive partitioned into a small 7BG partition for system files and applications, and a larger 32 GB partition for storage of MP3s, movies, documents, etc. Windows ME uses FAT32
     
  6. roddinron

    roddinron Corporal

    I'm backing up my old hd, that has one partition of 2.14 gig, and one 39.7 gig.? How can that be if The FAT32 filesystem will only allow you to have 32 GB per partition? :confused:
     
  7. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    I've just discovered that there is a version of Fdisk that is later than the version that I've been using and that it can be used to create partitions larger than what I had originally thought. Sorry about the misnomer.
     

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