Terabyte Drives

[alexkoon]

Looking at getting a terabyte drive. Ultimate performance is not a factor. What is a factor is good warranty and good reliability.

I have discounted Maxtor as I had bad experiences with them and will never ever buy them again. This weekends Scan todayonly offers various drives with 5 yr warranties.

Theres the Seagate which at 81 GBP and another Seagate at just under 90 GBP. Then there are two WD's, the Caviar Black at 121 and the WD RE2-GP at 125. Is it worth paying the premium for the WD? The RE2-GP is enterprise class and meant to have hight MTBF but they all come with 5 yr warranties.

What are other members experience with these drives.

[akaneria]

i would stick with WD mate, i have never had a fault with them! and they are fast!,
worth the extra premium. Never buy anything else, it its for holding data and important documents.

[NightshadowUK]

My vote goes for the Samsung F1, it's cheap and it's awesome (3 year warranty too).

[dangel]

My vote goes for the Samsung F1, it's cheap and it's awesome (3 year warranty too).

What he said - it's a must choice for TB drives IMHO. Very fast, cheap, reliable and quiet.
What more do you want?