Seagate or Maxtor?

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pharrell

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So just wondered which hardrive gives you a better freq response?

I've always found with a maxtor you have to give it a little push around 12K when recording,

Discuss

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So just wondered which hardrive gives you a better freq response?
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Eh, hard drives have absolutely nothing to do with that :D

But generally speaking of hard drives, I have been using Seagate for the last 9 years without a single problem in 8 drives total.

Maxtor's hard drives have been pulled from sales in some stores due to the very high amounts of customer returns of broken Maxtor drives.
 
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT BUY A MAXTOR DRIVE IF YOU VALUE YOUR DATA.

'nuff said.

Oh, and I really hope you are kidding about the frequency response.

~006
 
What he said...
I've thrown more Maxtors to garbage than any other brand...
Seagate really faults very rarely. WD aren't bad, but I've tossed my fair share of them in trash... Their EB series was awful, I've had to rescue data from maybe 10 such HDDs, most of them were 200EB.
 
I prefer Glyph drives simply because they are geared toward use with DAW's specifically. They are outstanding and in the many years of using them, have never had a problem. WD(the Raptor series)/Seagate drives run a close second by my count, only because I like saying the word "glyph". I've never liked LaCie..I've heard of hit or miss countless times, so I steer clear of those. There are countless other manufacturers that are alright for recording purposes, but Maxtor is something you should trust nothing to. It shouldn't even be anywhere NEAR a DAW.

If you have a Maxtor drive, take it out slowly, clear the room, and quietly set it in the trash can. Walk away. It will spontaneously implode on it's own. To speed up the process, bring a friend in the room, and pretend to discuss something along the lines of, "Man, I've got this perfect project on my drive right now. So much work has been put into it, and it's finally almost done, just gotta do a final mix, and it's finished." Then have your friend say, "you know, it would really suck if you lost it." BE CAREFUL THOUGH, shrapnel may eject from the trashcan due to the violent implosion that will soon occur. I suggest these safety goggles, used by Andy Sneap as well.
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~006

*DISCLAIMER* Be sure to not actually have important data on the drive before performing this euthanizing of the drive. I will not be held responsible for lost projects/eyesight due to this drive's self-destruction. Also, if you think it would be funny to try it just to see if this is true, don't. Losing data isn't a laughing matter. Maxtor drives in general, however, are.
 
my maxtor is bass heavy for sure....

Seagates are a bit weak in the mid range

I might get them re-tubed :heh:
 
Never had a problem with seagate.
Aside from looking an idiot here, ive read articles around where people have actually talked about this before!!! I just couldnt possibly see it making any difference, but some people are clearly in the belief! So i'm not quite sure in this case if it is a continuation of the boards on going sarcasm of late or a genuine post :lol:
 
Gomez said:
I agree.

I use western Digital - they work great - no problems at all.
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Get a raptor or an RE2. 5 years warranty and not expensive.

They have a special ferrocoating on the platters that is beeing held on with static electricity that will ensure dataintegrity for several eons, also reducing read-latency with their patented pre-biased saturationtechnique ensuring a faster risetime of the positive bitflanks, at the same time decreasing molecular wear on the surface of the platter due to the constant refreshing of the oxygenfilminertia that balances the headazimuth during readoperations eleminating every need for microrealignment between fullstroke seekoperations. The WD150 Raptor even has a little window built-in so you can see all this happen.
 
Mulder said:
They have a special ferrocoating on the platters that is beeing held on with static electricity that will ensure dataintegrity for several eons, also reducing read-latency with their patented pre-biased saturationtechnique ensuring a faster risetime of the positive bitflanks, at the same time decreasing molecular wear on the surface of the platter due to the constant refreshing of the oxygenfilminertia that balances the headazimuth during readoperations eleminating every need for microrealignment between fullstroke seekoperations.
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:hypno:
 
Mulder said:
Get a raptor or an RE2. 5 years warranty and not expensive.

They have a special ferrocoating on the platters that is beeing held on with static electricity that will ensure dataintegrity for several eons, also reducing read-latency with their patented pre-biased saturationtechnique ensuring a faster risetime of the positive bitflanks, at the same time decreasing molecular wear on the surface of the platter due to the constant refreshing of the oxygenfilminertia that balances the headazimuth during readoperations eleminating every need for microrealignment between fullstroke seekoperations. The WD150 Raptor even has a little window built-in so you can see all this happen.
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:loco:
 
i lost 5 Maxtor Drives in the last year alone. Some were replacements of broken ones I had returned. My WD are awesome , and I bought a seagate last december but it's duty is as a back up drive right now so...
 
Mulder said:
Get a raptor or an RE2. 5 years warranty and not expensive.

They have a special ferrocoating on the platters that is beeing held on with static electricity that will ensure dataintegrity for several eons, also reducing read-latency with their patented pre-biased saturationtechnique ensuring a faster risetime of the positive bitflanks, at the same time decreasing molecular wear on the surface of the platter due to the constant refreshing of the oxygenfilminertia that balances the headazimuth during readoperations eleminating every need for microrealignment between fullstroke seekoperations. The WD150 Raptor even has a little window built-in so you can see all this happen.
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is this dude fucking serious or did he just make half those words up? bitflanks?:notworthy you are the man dude!
 
Mulder said:
Get a raptor or an RE2. 5 years warranty and not expensive.

They have a special ferrocoating on the platters that is beeing held on with static electricity that will ensure dataintegrity for several eons, also reducing read-latency with their patented pre-biased saturationtechnique ensuring a faster risetime of the positive bitflanks, at the same time decreasing molecular wear on the surface of the platter due to the constant refreshing of the oxygenfilminertia that balances the headazimuth during readoperations eleminating every need for microrealignment between fullstroke seekoperations. The WD150 Raptor even has a little window built-in so you can see all this happen.
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Great but what do they sound like?
 
I second the Glyph stuff. I use the Glyph SCSI hot swap trip drives.....which I think are actually seagate cheetah drives..... I have had them lock up on a couple occasions, but I sent them to Glyph and they fixed them and sent them back within a couple days and it was free and there was no data loss. But those are just for actually working on stuff.

For storage/back-up I burn everything to DVD's and store them in various firewire drives, mostly lacie. I havn't had any problems with any of my back-up drives.....yet.
 
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