Is It Worth Buyin A Name Brand Hard Drive Vs Generic?????

[dg45]

I need to buy a new hard drive for my POWERBOOK g4.

IS IT WORTH BUYIN A NAME BRAND HARD DRIVE VS GENERIC?????

is there a big differance?

Why is it worth buyin a name brand?

If i can save half on a generic is it worth it?
Yes or no

and why?

 

[MacDawg]

Go ahead... roll the dice with your data

Why don't you list the drives you are comparing
Someone may have experience with them

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[dg45]

Go ahead... roll the dice with your data

Why don't you list the drives you are comparing
Someone may have experience with them

Woof, Woof - Dawg

I still have not found what iam goin to buy but this guy at school gave me the idea and i dont know if anyone had any experiance with generic hard drives.

Did anyone have any experiance with GENERIC HARD DRIVES OR purchase one???????????

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Companies like Seagate and Western Digital make the best drives (may be a few others I've forgotten to mention.)

Brands like Fujitsu are alright, although they don't specialise in hard drives.

If you've never heard of the brand anywhere, I'd avoid it.

 

[RITZFit]

see if you can find any O.E.M drives. they're still brand new brand name drives but they're usually $20+ cheaper because they don't come w/ the packaging, documentation,warranty, etc. but yeah, I wouldn't trust a no name drive w/ no name quality

 

[MacDawg]

Did anyone have any experiance with GENERIC HARD DRIVES OR purchase one???????????

What do you consider a "generic hard drive"

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[dg45]

Companies like Seagate and Western Digital make the best drives (may be a few others I've forgotten to mention.)

Brands like Fujitsu are alright, although they don't specialise in hard drives.

If you've never heard of the brand anywhere, I'd avoid it.

thanks but

i seen one person on a page said that he bought a Western Digital hard drive 2.5 ata for his powerbook and he had a problem installin/running it.

Has anyone experianced/bought a western digital hard drive for a mac
15" POWERBOOK G4 TITANIUM laptop before?

any problems?
Are western digital ATA hard drives compatible with Powerbooks/macs?
Will my POWERBOOK run it fine with no problems installing it?

HELP
thanks everyone who helps

 

[windywoo]

Bad place to ask that question. Mac owners will always tell you that name = better. Well, its true if an item doesn't have a name, you don't know anything about it, but I often buy unbranded parts for my PCs and they work just as well as the branded.

Its true that Seagate and Western Digital make good drives, and they aren't too expensive, so if you are concerned about reliability go for one of those. Then again, how much longer do you expect your powerbook to last? A generic unbranded drive is likely to last you as long as your powerbook's remaining life.