[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago (2 children). I made a Vaporwave Arizona Tea vinyl for my Series X. ill never buy seagate again, a couple of years ago their drives had lots of issues and needed firmware fixes that didnt really work. DEF JAM: FIGHT FOR NY. IronWolf hard drives are CMR and compatibility assured by leading NAS manufacturers, such as Synology, QNAP, and Asustor. Backup your shit and who cares if one did die, saved money on massive storage! I personally have the 4TB MyBook and have no complaints about it. Seagate and Western Digital's 18TB Hard Drives - Q3 2020 Introductions ... (such as the 14TB Western Digital Elements with a re-labeled / firmware-modified WD / … Seagate drives have by far the highest rate of failure of any hard drive manufacturer. No advertising, selling, buying, trading, self pomotion or asking for free stuff. The WD Elements is available in a broad range of capacities, from 2TB to 14TB, and on the inside there’s little to choose between this unit and the Seagate Expansion. As someone who will own hundreds of games for the Xbox One by the end of this generation, I wanted a hard drive that would allow me to have every physical copy of a game installed at all times. By that I mean the Seagate BP has a 4/5 rating on Amazon, with quite a few recent reviews saying it failed on them. This site is a free online resource that strives to offer helpful content and comparison features to its visitors. I'm looking to buy two 5-6TB, 3.5", USB3 external hard drives. [–]wynt3rr 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (1 child), [–]ParDan_Me 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children), I sell both hard drive as part of my job. I honestly doubt there's a difference as they're relatively the same price usually. The one game I would love to have backwards compatability with online multiplayer. Spoilers and NSFW must be properly marked. I had 2 WD My Passports fail on me during my first two years of medical school and I switched to Seagate. Whats the BIG difference between the two and what do you prefer. Performance Review. Thinking of getting that one for mine. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity. In this video :-1) Seagate 5TB Backup Plus USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive. [–]Lakchina 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children), Seagate drives should just be illegal to sell. I do have a 3TB Seagate though since the external update and its worked as expected. X. [–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children), Neither. I would prefer to buy a drive that has a 7200rpm HDD inside, but as far as I understand, after looking at forum posts, reddit posts and amazon reviews, there is no guarantee that any model will include a certain HDD inside, especially not a 7200RPM one. On top of that, it's fairly safe to say that Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable is a more popular external hard drive, based on its 50,000+ reviews. Of the two, the WD is by far the better option. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. Difference Between WD Elements and My Passport. Out of all the sources that reviewed them, the Seagate Expansion Portable 2TB turned out to be most loved by CNET, which gave it a score of 8.1, whereas the Western Digital Elements Portable 2TB got its highest, 8.4, rating from reviewers at Gadget Review. I will appreciate any advice on which drive out of these 4 should I buy, based on your personal experience. I plan on doing more digital downloads in the future and I got it on sale so it was a no brainer! I do have a 3TB Seagate though since the external update and its worked as expected. [–]UF8FF#teamchief 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children). I work with WD, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, and Toshiba hard drives. On the other hand, I have a 2T Seagate expansion drive that is a year older that is both working fine, and the computer has no issues with it. Both companies’ SATA SSDs, Seagate’s Barracuda 510 ( Amazon ) and Western Digital’s Blue 3D ( Amazon ), are practically the same in terms of speed, both offering a maximum of 2TB. © 2021 reddit inc. All rights reserved. [–]tennisbgc 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children). [–]nanowerxnanowerx 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (1 child). Después de haber leído este artículo, ya deberías saber los pros y las contras Western Digital vs Seagate en cuanto a almacenamiento. However, at the end of the day, we still need to choose between the two. For the 8TB capacity for example while WD can only go as low as some still nice helium drives at least as good as the 24/7 rated and generally well regarded Reds Seagate can deliver some SMR abominations that can get as low as a very few (even 1-3) MB/s once you wrote to them at least as much as their full capacity (even if you removed data in the meantime and they're not even close to full). This is the STEB5000100; I am currently trying to move around 400 GB of Blu-ray rips to it and the write speed is pitiful (15-20 MB/s) on USB 3.0. Personally I shoot for the price point. Check out which Hard Disk wins the Battle.Seagate Vs Toshiba Vs WDTo Buy The Products Shown in the Video at Best Price, Here is the Link1. Western Digital MyPassport Ultra (Foto: WD) Untuk di lini desktop, harddisk eksternal WD lebih diunggulkan karena menghadirkan kapasitas penyimpanan yang lebih besar dibanding Seagate. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Slimline-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B008PABFX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411764431&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+usb+3.0. Seagate Expansion Desktop 12TB External Hard Drive (STEB12000400) With this larger Seagate movable storage machine, you are able to create backups as easy as drag-and-drop. I ended up with these models, without actually managing to understand their differences. There is a good chance none of those will be 7200rpm. So Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable, while being a cheaper option, tends to get more favorable ⭐ reviews than the $180 WD My Passport 2TB, as seen on the chart below. Touro mobile pro, 3.0 usb, 1tb, 7200rpm, portable, [–]starlight777 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children), [–]javiergame4Xbox 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (5 children), [–]JohnnyLong123[S] 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (4 children). Seagate Expansion or WD MyBook for external hard drive? Seagate Expansion or WD MyBook for external hard drive? None. Most drives these days for consumer use, shoot for power efficiency so 5400-5900 is what you'll find. From reading around it also seems in general Seagate is considered less reliable. My main use for them will be working with RAW files (coming out of a 5D IV) and probably video files in the future. (self.xboxone), [–]ToastyyPanda 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago (1 child). But certainly random operations suffer. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 14793 on r2-app-05798cba7896329d3 at 2021-01-11 02:55:27.540815+00:00 running d8cca48 country code: NL. The trouble is that Seagate is much, MUCH better in making crap. So, that leaves the WD elements. Or the usecase has smaller SSD's for high performance data. Which ones best? The reviews you read and opinions you see are based on personal experiences and not based on any actual testing. and join one of thousands of communities. In either one you'd get the crappiest disk WD or Seagate can get their hands on at the moment. Stay far away from Seagate. They don't play around and they give some good real world quality assessments of the various consumer dives over time. อยากรู้ว่าซื้ออันไหนดีค่ะ คุณสมบัติมันแตกต่างกันหรือเปล่า แอบเล็งๆ WD เหมือนกัน - Seagate Expansion - Seagate Backup plus Slim - Seagate Backup plus - WD Passport Ultra - WD Elements That's what I'm leaning towards I've just heard a few bad stories that got me a little worried. I already fell in love with this small beast. Sort: Clear All. Go to awesomeness ranking Go to consumer score ranking WD Elements is more popular Western Digital and Seagate were both initially reluctant to invest into the solid-state drive field, though they are now roughly neck-and-neck. backblaze did some test upon thousands of drives for 36 months and the failures rates on seagates are just abysmal. Who has experienced this? Sorry to hijack the post but may as well ask in here instead of making a new post, has anybody used the Samsung M3? On top of that, it's fairly safe to say that Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable is a more popular external hard drive, based on its 50,000+ reviews. All about personal experience. I've heard some hate on the Seagate drives and that they are unreliable but the same thing happens with WD drives just as often. I actually prefer the Seagate BP's design too, but decided to get the WD because it "seemed" more reliable. [–]wynt3rr 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (3 children). Enabling piracy, jailbreaking, hacking, fraud, account trading/sharing, region switching, etc is not allowed. Print Email. Discussion about Seagate or WD Elements 2TB External? WD seems to be the more popular and tends to have better reviews. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Las dos son marcas de discos duros muy buenas. Back to Product List. As is known to all, HDD is the main business of Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation. use the following search parameters to narrow your results: Everything related to the Xbox One. So today, I will show you the differences of Seagate vs Western Digital on storage devices. My first console after years of lowspecpcgaming. Here We are doing a quick one minute review of Seagate backup plus drive and WD elements both of them are most selling backup drives now in the market. Memes, image macros, reaction gifs, polls, petitions, friend requests, and surveys are not allowed as posts. Which ones fail? Please stop the hourly "I wish this game was backwards compatible" posts. Ready to go with up to 5TB of storage space for your most important files, the sleek and protective metal finish is available in classic black, silver, red or blue. Follow Reddiquette. WD Elements vs My Passport – Capacity. Seagate vs Western Digital HDD. The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries. Seagate 8TB external @ $150 on BHphoto no tax free shipping, ordered 4 last week. Seagate Backup Plus is an easy way to protect and share your digital life. My (almost) complete Xbox One Limited Edition Controllers. So they aren't necessarily slow from a throughput perspective. So WD My Passport, while being a cheaper option, tends to get more favorable ⭐ reviews than the $90 Seagate Backup Plus, as seen on the chart below. I would prefer to buy a drive that has a 7200rpm HDD inside. http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-long-term-hdd-survival-rate-brand-100226260-orig.jpg, [–]nahlakhai 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children). ... Seagate vs … Good luck! They segmented 7200rpm for higher end drives. All of them. [Tech] posts must be within the weekly [Tech] megathread. Seagate VS Western Digital. [Giveaway] and [Deal] posts must be properly tagged or they will be removed. This is pretty much exactly the problem. 7200rpm doesnt necessarily mean faster, it does probably mean louder though. No items to compare. Unboxing & Review of Seagate Bsckup Plus 1TB and WD Elements 1TB. Add at least two items to compare. Product Comparison: Seagate Portable vs Western Digital Elements 1TB (WDBUZG0010BBK-WESN) Advertiser Disclosure. And many users will compare the two brands when choosing a storage device such as SSD, HDD. For the Seagate expansion and Backup plus, from what ive seen its a crapshoot whether or not youll get an SMR drive or a Barracuda, and well, you dont want an smr drive if you care at all about performance. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the DataHoarder community. As for drive choice, The Mybooks, encrypt data that goes through the included external enclosure meaning that in the event the dock fails, the data is unrecoverable via just connecting the internal drive to sata. This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people. Out of all the options, to me that seems like the best one. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. I don't understand why this is because my Seagate Backup 5TB has normal speeds. They went into my NAS. So, that leaves the WD elements. Showoff Sunday - all pictures of achievements, gamerscore, controllers, custom art/mods, battle stations, and so forth are only allowed as posts on Sundays. [–]omeganon 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children). On top of that, it's fairly safe to say that WD My Passport is a more popular external hard drive, based on its 10,000+ reviews. After I made an Infinity Gauntlet controller, I had to “Assemble” a similar one... My wife designed and customized this controller and i thought you would all appreciate it! So Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable, while being a cheaper option, tends to get more favorable ⭐ reviews than the $104 WD Elements 4TB, as seen on the chart below. When it comes to hard drives, Seagate and Western Digital are among the best-selling brands on the market today. After having 2 external and 1 internal drive crap out on me, I stopped buying anything Seagate. Adapun Seagate hanya menghadirkan kapasitas penyimpanan 2 TB lewat FreeAgent Desk. I think out of those, the only one likely to have a 7200rpm drive is the mybook.I've been through tons of seagate expansions and backups, and they are never 7200. We are looking at the 4TB capacity hard drive. WD Easystore vs Elements: Which Western Digital is Better? pay the little bit more and get the western digital, its better quality. I used to buy wd but too many corrupt harddrives, started buying Seagate a few years ago and no problems. Keep it Civil. WD Elements, the cheaper option, tends to get more favorable reviews than Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable. This is equal to 4,096GB. It depends on the draw I guess. They are the cheapest hard drives for a reason, because they are junk. Lewat My Book Studio Edition II, WD hadir dengan kapasitas hingga 4 TB. Rendered by PID 14793 on r2-app-05798cba7896329d3 at 2021-01-11 02:55:27.540815+00:00 running d8cca48 country code: NL. Personally not a fan of WD, but never had a Seagate Drive fail on me. On top of that, it's fairly safe to say that Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable is a more popular external hard drive, based on its 50,000+ reviews. They dont have Hardware encryption (at least the USB3.0 models) and as of yet, you should have no chance of getting a seagate SMR drive in this, a WD external hard drive. These drives are purpose-built for 24x7 NAS workload environments, providing best-in-class user experience caused a lot of pain for a lot of people, their build quality seems to have gone a lot over the years. I honestly doubt there's a difference as they're relatively the same price usually. Also, the setup is simple, just connect it to your computer with USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter, and your computer will recognize it automatically by itself. Hard drives from large companies like wd and seagate are going to be fine. I like the design of the expansion drives, but prefer the availability of the Backup Plus Hub Drives (locally our Costco has em in Bulk). https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/. That said those drives still can be 190MB/s on the outside to 120MB/s on the inside. These guys buy a metric crap ton of these cheap consumer drives and use them in their custom mega-disk-space hardware and they've been doing it for years. They have a 12% yearly failure rate. Combine that with the fact that Seagate doesn't really offer a staggering cost discount compared to comparable WD drives and... well.. most serious users and all the people that lived through that era will pay up the cost delta for peace of mind, real or imagined.. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. Posts must be directly related to Xbox and link to the source. For that reason, I would avoid going MyBook, unless you plan to shuck it. They are built to be the cheapest, and their low quality build shows in their desinlgns. Thanks. If there's one game I wish for backwards compatibility... CDPR will be charged 10% of their income in the previous year by the Polish Government if they fail to Deliver with the Patches. http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-long-term-hdd-survival-rate-brand-100226260-orig.jpg. I honestly got a bit lost, as they all look very similar. So Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable, while being a cheaper option, tends to get more favorable ⭐ reviews than the $143 WD My Book, as seen on the chart below. The WD Elements has 4.5/5 stars on Amazon. One of the key things that you need to consider when you buy a hard drive is the capacity. In our awesomeness score WD Elements ranks #10 out of 145 and Seagate Expansion Desktop Portable ranks #33 out of 145. 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