WD Studio

tacvbo83 · Post by **tacvbo83** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:47 pm

I am about to go to Best Buy and buy a hard drive since I feel my current one is about to give out on me and I don't want to loose it all. After browsing what they have online, I liked for the amount of space and features of the Western Digital Studio Edition. It has somewhat bad reviews but I know a lot of times its beginners who do not know how to use these kinds of things well.

Does anyone here have one? What do you think?

Or which one (from Best Buy since I want today) do you recommend?

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:55 pm

grab a seagate free agent...

tacvbo83 · Post by **tacvbo83** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:13 pm

Ok now I am looking at the Seagate Free Agent Xtreme and the "for Mac one". They are the same price.

Xtreme:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8009477014

"for mac":
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8004429979

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:47 pm

+1 for seagate over WD.

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:49 pm

do any of you know off hand if it is possible to disable the seagate's sleep mode on a mac?

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:24 pm

ubermnd wrote:do any of you know off hand if it is possible to disable the seagate's sleep mode on a mac?

don't know that problem... is it a function built in the 'ready made seagate box'?

i use seagates in icy boxes. it's cheap and i am very satisfied.

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:34 pm

not sure its a problem per say, just that the only beef i've ever had with a hard drive (WD mybook studio ed) is that it goes to sleep, then freezes upon waking, forcing you to reboot, only to find that kernal tree is corrupted and all your files innaccessible!

badly in need of replacement hd and I know its possible to get little apps on windows that allow you to prevent the drive from sleeping. maybe seagates are more reliable.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:44 pm

ubermnd wrote:not sure its a problem per say, just that the only beef i've ever had with a hard drive (WD mybook studio ed) is that it goes to sleep, then freezes upon waking, forcing you to reboot, only to find that kernal tree is corrupted and all your files innaccessible!

badly in need of replacement hd and I know its possible to get little apps on windows that allow you to prevent the drive from sleeping. maybe seagates are more reliable.

yupp, the WD books are notorious for failure, from what i heard.

seagates are great and reliable, i just buy the disks and stick 'em into icy boxes, which are cheap, having no trouble with firewire and have a alloy, fan less sturdy design and are stackable if you have a bunch of them.

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:07 pm

thats a great endorsement, thanks for the advice. now all I need is expendable income.

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:10 pm

top tunes btw.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:13 pm

ubermnd wrote:top tunes btw.

thanks!