new secondary hard drive seagate vs wd

[anthony113]

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!

 

[9Charms]

General rule I tend to follow is buy Seagate whenever you can. Why? 5-year warranty.

 

[roland.g]

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]

i heard that some of the seagate drives have performance issues on G5's, anyone experience this?

 

[mac000]

i heard that some of the seagate drives have performance issues on G5's, anyone experience this?

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)

 

[Lord Blackadder]

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).

 

[9Charms]

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

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...