Seagate Tape drive 4 GB 8 GB

Advantages: Standard
Disadvantages: Extremely unreliable, warranty is only one year

...One of the most unreliable and fault ridden disks I've ever seen. I purchased a batch of similarly sized Maxtors, Hitachis, Seagates and Western Digital drives around 3 years ago. I had about 15 Maxtors, of which I now have 7 remaining. In comparison, I've only lost 1 Hitachi and 2 Seagates. I'd say that pretty much speaks for itself. To top it off, whilst the Seagates came with 3 year return to base warranties, the Maxtors have about a 1 year. I wouldn't say that's a vote of confidence from the manufacturer on the product's reliability. Though, 1 year warranty on hard disks does seem to be becoming industry standard. For disk purchases I would highly recommend Western Digital or Seagate. I still have 4 GB WD Caviars that are still up and running!... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest

...Well I saw the category so I have decided to review my computers C drive. Seagate drives are not the cheapest there are but are generally very reliable, the main drive on our PC is getting on for 3 years old and is still in perfect condition. It is not a high speed drive so doesn't get too noisy - unlike the new high speed drives. Fittting - it is as easy as any other IDE drive to fit, three holes on each side of standard 3 1/2 inch bay. There are 4 x 0.1" jumpers for setting the drive up as a master or slave, or as the only drive in a PC. To be honest there is not much more to say except that medium speed Seagate drives are very reliable and are very good for bespoke PCs. I now have a 120GB Seagate drive as well as drive D: The drive was supplied by the company which built the PC - in its day this drive was about £80, and the 40... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Quick and Very Cheap!
Disadvantages: Can't think of anything at all!

...When building a cheap and cheerful Internet browsing PC for a friend, 80GB of storage seemed easily enough. After some browsing I discovered the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB, and found that it covers all the important points when buying a hard disk. An excellent and comprehensive 5 Year warranty was provided as standard, which certainly leads to a lot of peace of mind. Hard disks always seem to be the weakest link within Home PCs, so it is always nice to see a manufacturer putting faith into a non-enterprise level product. The large 2MB Cache also attracted me to the Seagate, and the low price tag was the final decider for me. A day later I had the Seagate installed in the PC ready for its first boot. The PC in question is a fairly standard box - an AMD Sempron 2800+, 256MB of DDR RAM and a Gigabyte motherboard. The hard disk worked... Read review

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