Nerd Help Needed Plz Thx

[palsgraf_polka]

I need to reformat my entire hard drive. It's become slow and sluggish and I just want to start from scratch.

I need to back up both of my internal hard drives, so I am going to buy a 1 TB external hard drive. Fry's has a Seagate USB drive for only $104.99.

But don't Seagate drives suck? I can't remember, and unfortunately the person I used to turn to for all matters geekery is no longer in my life [sigh].

So, I would appreciate some advice. TIA!

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

I was a Maxtor devotee for many years, and I worked at an ISP that was setting up a multiple terrabyte NNTP box with dozens of raided Western Digital drives that kept failing. I stayed away from WD for a while because of this.

Then my Maxtor's started crapping out right and left. And I got a job where the head admin swore by WD. Haven't seen one die since.

Meanwhile I support half a dozen boxes running Seagate Barracuda's that were going just fine until some jackass dropped 'em.

Really is a mixed bag. Until everything goes Solid State, it'll continue to be methinks.