Seagate or Samsung

[kxm9976]

Hello everyone.

Thanks in advance for all your input.

I need to get 2 120GIG SATA HDD's. Can't decide between Seagate or Samsung. Seagate got the longer warranty, but Samsung I heard runs quiter. Is Seagate much noisier?

According to reviews, both are considered good quality drives.


Thank

 

[Gamingphreek]

Seagate has a 5 year warranty (IMO the retail box isn't worth it), I have the 120gig SATA the drive is dead quiet thoguh the seeks are kinda noisy.

The PATA ones you are supposed to be barely able to hear the read/write.

So Seagate, much better than Samsung.

-Kevin

 

[Parkeshub]

I use a Seagate SATA drive. Very quiet. I don't think you'll have any problems with noise...or anything else!

 

[Auric]

Have no experience with Samsung but read they are good but recently read about a high-pitched noise that is not audible to everyone and a post here mentioned different motor sources with varying quality (NIDEC or JVC). Perhaps hit storagereview forums.

 

[Texun]

I don't know if I can offer any help since I haven't used SATA drives, but I have recently used Seagates and Samsungs. Both are very quiet, but I could hear the Seagate if I listened real hard. I now have a Samsung SP1614N in my main rig and I have honestly never heard the drive at all. Nothing.

It has the 3 year warranty and the performance is pretty slick.

 

[ponyo]

I think Samsung has now matched 5 yr warranty of Seagate. I read a press release or something.

 

[kxm9976]

Thanks Naustica for the tip, I'll check that out.
If say Samsung does provide the 5yr warranty, would you then recommend Samsung over Seagate?
Are they as reliable then the Seagate?

Thanks

 

[imported_Bleh]

Id go with Seagate if I were you. 5 year warranty and 8.5ms seek time (Samsung is 8.9). I have a Seagate 80gig Sata and I dont hear any noises from it.

 

[ponyo]

I like Seagate but it would come down to price for me. If similar price, I would get Seagate. If Samsung is lot cheaper, I would probably get that.

 

[kxm9976]

thanks a lot for suggestions guys, I think I am gonna stick with seagate.

One last thing though, I was reading a posting and the guy said that the computer may give some errors when the operating system is installed on sata drive. How true is that?

thaks

 

[0roo0roo]

seagate

 

[Abhi]

seagate

 

[Dennis Travis]

Seagate.

 

[Blain]

Samsung = slightly quieter
Seagate (SATA) = slightly faster

 

[thermalpaste]

All seagates come with native SATA, wheras many samsungs are PATA running on SATA. Seagates are way faster. SEAGATE rules

 

[Subhuman25]

Samgate is better than Seasung

 

[Zepper]

I agree with those that have said:
Seagate = slightly higher performance
Samsung = slightly lower noise.

The thing is, you almost never see Samsung with a big-box store rebate and Seagate has them all the time with CompUSA at least (typically 160GB for $70. AR). So if you shop wisely, you can get Seagate retail boxed drives REALLY CHEAP!!! If you can wait for that rebate check.

.bh.

 

[imported_Phil]

Seagate > * for IDE drives when it comes to performance and noise.

I have had very bad experiences with Samsung drives.

 

[nick1985]

seagate

 

[Arcanedeath]

Personaly I think their is little difference between Seagates and Samsugs 120GB 8meg buffer SATA drives, I would suggest buying on price alone in this case as the drives performance and specs are so similar it's not really worth talking about about the only advantage seagate may have is a 5yr vs a 3yr warrenty.

 

[MezzUp]

Originally posted by: kxm9976
One last thing though, I was reading a posting and the guy said that the computer may give some errors when the operating system is installed on sata drive. How true is that?

Talking about this?

Anyway, my vote is for Seagates 5yrs.

I've been searching Samsung's press releases, can't find anything about a 5 year warranty. Anybody got an URL?

 

[Blain]

> You ROCK Blain <

 

[Zepper]

Thanks for the link, Blain. Nice to have numbers to show that you are unlikely to notice any difference in daily use - differences between Seagate and Samsung SATA mostly <5% and all but one <10%.
.bh.

 

[kxm9976]

Thank you all fo input.

Blain, that was awesome, thank you.
Do you guys think that todays SATA's are as reliable as the ATA's?
The reason I am asking is because the rig I am building right now is going to be used for personal use and video editing. I am getting 2 Baracuda SATA's (one for the video, one for programs and downloads). Now I am not going to be doing any RAid. The video editing files are going to be very valuable so I can't afford to lose a hard drive.

What do you suggest in this case?

Thank You

 

[DrCool]

as far as that comparsion is concerned, it's going to come down to Reliablity..

if you look at the last 5 years, Samsungs name doesn't even come up.. so how can you trust a 3 or 5 year warranty from them? Seagate on the other hand, has a solid record for Reliablity and honoring their warranties..