Seagate has announced a new line of drives that are slated to offer a capacity of 2 trillion Bytes (2TB) - eventually. The first Constellation drives are expected to start shipping sometime during the first quarter of this year. But unlike the Western Digital Caviar Green drives which can already be pre-ordered from many vendors, the actual 2TB capacity Seagate drives may not ship until late summer.
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: ya they need to hold off till they get the bugs worked out...
I agree. The sit and wait approach is effective, especially when regards to faulty drives that Seagate has recently released. Now if only I could get my hands on a 2TB WD . . .
I just got my replacement under warranty yesterday, and it's a repaired drive, not a new one. This doesn't make my oppinion any better.
Glad to hear that it's not just me having issues with them. I have purchased 2 Seagates and they have both crashed. 1 Hitachi and it crashed. Only 1 Western Digital crashed out of at least 7 that I owned.
I have had three (3) seagate 1tb+ drives fail in the past 10 - 12 weeks or so. Two 1tb and one 1.5.
They finally addmitted they have a problem and have recently published a firmware upgrade. I applied the firmware to my drives that qualify. We'll see.
Originally posted by wdtv: Damn, does this mean my Seagate 1.5 tb external is faulty?
Well as they say it takes a very hungrey man to pick the maggots off his meat and then eat it as opposed to tossing it out ... these drives use a new technology using vertical alignment so it may take a while to work out the bugs.I for one usually like to wait 6 months to a year before I try them out. This also gets you the benefits of the subsequent price reductions ... Just a thought ...
