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WD or Seagate ?????

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/wd-or-seagate.120660/

codename_romeo
codename_romeo Original post #1
Aug 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Going in for a new 500GB hdd. After lots of browsing through the forum i saw that there are people who would say that seagate has a higher failure rate than WD and some say otherwise. I am getting WD and seagate for roughly 3k in my city. But the question is that i wantu know which is better in that segment.??? and if any other suggestions please throw in......
mac555
mac555 #2
Aug 31, 2009 at 4:37 PM
wd black series is best go with 500 gb....and abt seagate fail rate,that was abt a batch of disks and i think they r fine now....but still go wd,get 32 cache version of wd disks if u want performce(in green and blue series)..... go to wd site to find more....
Krow
Krow #4
Aug 31, 2009 at 11:09 PM
WD forever. For many reasons, but one of them is :

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120599
nishantv2003
Sep 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I recently bought samsung 750gb(32mb cache) hdd @ 4k from Bhopal..
the performance is vry vry good....