Toshiba DT01ACA300 or Seagate ST3000DM001?

Anusha · Dec 8, 2012, 02:54 PM

Looking to buy one of these drives. If I forget about the price difference, if there is any, which drive should I go for?
I'm strictly looking to buy one of the above two and want to know which drive will give the best "overall" performance.

BTW, I will be replacing my Samsung HD103SJ based two drive RAID-0 setup with one of these drives.

lyndonguitar · Dec 8, 2012, 03:38 PM

All of my drives are Seagate, Never used any toshiba, so far never had any bad experiences with Seagate. I dunno about Toshiba though.

jgunning · Dec 11, 2012, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anusha

Looking to buy one of these drives. If I forget about the price difference, if there is any, which drive should I go for?
I'm strictly looking to buy one of the above two and want to know which drive will give the best "overall" performance.

BTW, I will be replacing my Samsung HD103SJ based two drive RAID-0 setup with one of these drives.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyndonguitar

All of my drives are Seagate, Never used any toshiba, so far never had any bad experiences with Seagate. I dunno about Toshiba though.

I agree with lyndonguitar, im definitly a seagate fan =) I work as a computer tech and from experience from work toshibas are pretty much always the drives that fail in all notebooks from staff.
Thats just my experience with them anyway =)

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