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tedsteriscool on 02 September 2009

Ohh slims have Toshiba? And phats have Seagate?

I feel much better having a slim now. Seagate drives are notorious for their high failure rates, which may be why a lot of people (10%?) get YLOD.

For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148295

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ameratsu on 02 September 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Ohh slims have Toshiba? And phats have Seagate?

I feel much better having a slim now. Seagate drives are notorious for their high failure rates

 

Source?



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ZenfoldorVGI on 02 September 2009
ssj12 said:
dbot said:
The bottleneck is the Blu-ray not the HDD.

not really as long as redundant data is installed onto the HDD so the Bu-ray reader doesn't have to reread the same texture files over and over like the PS1 and PS2 did.

The bottleneck for installation...not sure.

The bottleneck for gaming is, and has always been the developers understanding of the cell, the ram, and the gpu. Not the cell itself.



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Serious_frusting on 02 September 2009

since when does a millasecound meake a difference lol



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tedsteriscool on 02 September 2009
ameratsu said:
tedsteriscool said:
Ohh slims have Toshiba? And phats have Seagate?

I feel much better having a slim now. Seagate drives are notorious for their high failure rates

 

Source?

I like how you cut out the second half of my post, including evidence.



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ameratsu on 02 September 2009

Well I looked through newegg user reviews and it seems Seagate quality is dropping rapidly from their previous reputation of making quality drives. Unfortunate as that's all I've ever bought when building PCs. The drives I bought for the PC I built last year are still doing okay after 10 months, but from first glance there appears to be some serious quality/reliability issues.



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tedsteriscool on 02 September 2009
ameratsu said:

Well I looked through newegg user reviews and it seems Seagate quality is dropping rapidly from their previous reputation of making quality drives. Unfortunate as that's all I've ever bought when building PCs. The drives I bought for the PC I built last year are still doing okay after 10 months, but from first glance there appears to be some serious quality/reliability issues.

Yeah, since about 2-3years ago they've seriously fallen in QC. Western Digital is now the better choice, by far. (Ironic...I have a seagate HDD in my PC).