[Solved] Seagate vs. Seagate 7200.12

Hi,

WD is more reliable than Seagate, but currently the fastest 1TB HDD drive comes from Seagate. The 7200.12 serie have 2 disks 4 heads. The density is equal to 2TB drives nearly. (Not the same in fact, 2TB goes lower to inner circles by the head arms)

WD 1TB drives have 3 disks 6 heads. (Like Seagate 7200.11 serie) the density is bigger. 333MB on per platter now. But Seagate's 7200.11 drives inner electronics somehow faster than the newer serie. The test sites therefore can not agree which one is really faster. WD meanwhile a bit slower than those two but not much. It has 2 actuators from top plate and down by the motor spindle.

Let me explain this, Seagate drives are really bad starting from 7200.10 serie. 7200.10 serie decreases to 1 percent life expectancy in 2 months of running times in some badly ventilated cases. This means you can say goodbye to your new drive in 3 months if you run your PC 16 hours a day!

Some utilities like HDD Life Pro, Hard Drive Inspector, DEKSI Hard Drive Manager, Atrise FBI, ActiveSMART etc. gives very good info about the Hard Drives. They can display total run on hours, life percentage left, health related Smart Event status etc.

If you are thinking to make a Raid 0 set. NEVER, think about Seagate drives. (Unless they are Enterprise class, I haven't tested them, but tested WDC ones. My 4x WDC 250GB Raid 0 ones were really fine and still goes above %95 with very good health status after 2 years) But I have JB class ones too. The white covered ones also, still %95 and over, but the black covered ones (the older serie with same capacity) %80+ health left.

WDC goes better and better day after day by means of dependancy, but Seagate drives just goes to the opposite way. Therefore be very careful when selecting a new HDD, if you do not want your everything goes above the clouds unexpectedly fast!

Bye...