Well, you just missed a deal on the Seagate, as I had just picked up another for 69 bucks. Personally, and I mean personally, I had lots of bad luck with WD. My oldest drives from them still work (5-8 years), but their newer ones seem to be a jump of faith, especially the green series. Seagate hasn't been good lately as well, specially since they moved production to a new factory however, I have 5 of those Seagates that you have linked, they are very good drives. I have 3 running in a server, on 24/7 (about a year of ownership), transferring bluray media, etc constantly. and 2 other drives as external storage. I recently bought another, it is still formatting (through usb2) and hasn't died on me yet. (it's about 24 hours, too lazy to switch it out to an esata connection). I would go with the Seagate, just because I have had good experience with them. It's a rather cool drive (5900rpm), while also fast, regardless of spin speed. Most of the commenters on newegg, specially for the newegg, don't register as verified owners. Also, people take off eggs for packaging, or bad service, etc. So going by eggs isn't really a indicator of how good or bad the drive is. And lastly, many of the comments on drives being dead, for the seagate, are from people trying to use these drives in raid. These drives were not meant to be used in such a manner, and to use it as such is rather ridiculous. Anyways my 2 cents, not having bought WD in a while, the seagate is a very good storage drive and I would get another. Of course, Samsung is a good buy as well. Some people have bad luck, some people set things up wrong, or maybe I am just amazingly lucky.