OPINIONS: Best Hard Drive - Western Digital Special Caviar Edition or Other?

13 Feb 2006 9:19 PM

Quasar X

OPINIONS: Best Hard Drive - Western Digital Special Caviar Edition or
Other?

Hello,
I'm looking for the BEST Big Storage External Harddrive, either with
enclosure or without. (I can put it in my own case if need be.)

I am seeing a lot of complaints about drive failures on the Western
Digital Special Caviar Editions. People are saying they fail after 6
months. This concerns me of course. But I don't know another brand that
may be better.

I had a Maxtor, and that broke after 2 months! I need something REALLY
STABLE.

I need the best 250 GB to 500 GB drive around for video editing in Final
Cut Pro, costing under $500 per 500 GBs.

Any help would be great!!!!!!

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13 Feb 2006 10:52 PM

Mike Kujbida

Quasar X wrote:
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> OPINIONS: Best Hard Drive - Western Digital Special Caviar Edition or
> Other?
>
>
> Hello,
> I'm looking for the BEST Big Storage External Harddrive, either with
> enclosure or without. (I can put it in my own case if need be.)
>
>
> I am seeing a lot of complaints about drive failures on the Western
> Digital Special Caviar Editions. People are saying they fail after 6
> months. This concerns me of course. But I don't know another brand
> that may be better.
>
> I had a Maxtor, and that broke after 2 months! I need something
> REALLY STABLE.
>
>
> I need the best 250 GB to 500 GB drive around for video editing in
> Final Cut Pro, costing under $500 per 500 GBs.
>
>
> Any help would be great!!!!!!

I recently switched from using Western Digital to Seagate, mainly because of
the 5 year warranty. The WDs I have work just fine so I don't have any
complaints with them, I just like the longer warranty. They all go into
external 5 1/4" USB/1394 cases that have a fan in them. I can't stress
enough the importance of having that fan. It goes a long way towards
extending the life of the drive.

Mike