Building my PC

I have 7 Seagates and yet to have one fail, out of the 10 WD's I've had three fail ! You mileage may vary !

linnemeyerhere said:

I have 7 Seagates and yet to have one fail, out of the 10 WD's I've had three fail ! You mileage may vary !

True that. I've had four Seagates; two failed (one after a year, the other shortly after I got it), one was a disappointment (a SSHD that didn't work out for me), and one that is ok. Conversely, I've owned 15 WDs and only one failed (an early Green that had the head parking issue and failed after a little over a year).

What I said about the warranties still stands.

Re: HDDs
I have used Seagate internals without problems but this suggests they may not be the best pick:
Who makes the best disk drives?
Hitachi seem to score well.

Hitachi (HGST) is now owned by WD.

Trooper23 said:

I have been researching for this cooling cpu
Hydro Series? H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler - Hydro Series - Cooling

Stock cooler is fine as long as you don't overclock your CPU and by going through this thread I m sure you won't. At least not soon

A stock cooler is crap in my opinion, having tried both AMD and Intel. They don't keep the CPU cool as it should be and in trying sounds like a jet turbine spooling up.

I agree stock coolers leave a lot to be desired but I also feel a water cooler is overkill unless seriously overclocking. A good air cooler will be plenty good (and quieter), cost less, and will be safer (air leaks are harmless).

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Hitachi (HGST) is now owned by WD.

But does this mean Hitachi design and build quality is out and WD enforce their way?
Seagate bought out Samsung HDD ( ) so did Samsung design methodology get turfed out?

Industry "rationalization" also happens in the auto industry. The consumer doesn't always get they best end deal.