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new secondary hard drive seagate vs wd

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anthony113

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im looking to buy a 320gb secondary drive for my G5 dual 2.7. i am deciding between the Seagate Barracuda 320gb from owc and the Western Digital Caviar SATA Enterprise Edition 320GB from owc. any suggestions? thanks!
 
I've had both but on reputation I would go with the Seagate now. I got a 500GB Barracuda from newegg.com at thanksgiving and it's a great drive.
 
anthony113 said:
i heard that some of the seagate drives have performance issues on G5's, anyone experience this?
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i have had seagate issues all around, i'd go with Lacie or Iomega which I heard are very reliable. Seagate Price vs GB = good deal, actual performance/reliability = bad deal

i lost data on my 160gb external 3 times so far, and it doesn't mount on my macbook pro but did mount on my macbook and imac when i had them. i'm ready to chuck this thing out the window (seriously) 🙂
 
I have been running two Hitachi/IBM 250GB SATA drives for a couple years now. They've been perfectly relaible and quiet. I've had decent luck with Seagate and Maxtor, but that was years ago. I had bad luck with Quantum, but they're gone now (sort of). 🙂
 
mac000 said:
i have had seagate issues all around, i'd go with Lacie or Iomega which I heard are very reliable. Seagate Price vs GB = good deal, actual performance/reliability = bad deal
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Umm... correct me if I'm wrong but Lacie and Iomega don't make hard drives... they just put a hard drive in their enclosures usually from Maxtor or Seagate... which are the same company now...
 
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