I guess you missed this?




Sounds like he already purchased it.

Last back up on TM was July 10th... I shut down seagate and restarted and I am trying to back up now via TM..It says "preparing 13,780 items" and that keeps increasing. The seagate is sounding strange???


Reboot why so against WD?

They have a horrible failure rate...

So it isn't a coke pepsi thing?

That is what I figured.

Har har.
Just trying to give you an honest answer to a obvious question.
It's been pretty well known for quite a while their drives just don't cut it for reliability.

Well i looked on Amazon user reviews and it seems a mixed bag with Seagate and WD.

Believe me, I have no preference, so not trying to debate, but I have heard techies on both sides of the fence. Is there some "study" or "article" or is it just personal experience your speaking from?
Once again, not looking for an argument at all!!

My opinion is that Seagate offers 5 years protection on a lot more of their products.
You don't offer 5 year protection if you don't feel your drives won't last that long.>>WD

Just my experience over the last 17 years or so. I replace WD and Maxtor way more often than Seagate. You're going to be using it for a backup though so it won't be running all of the time so you should be fine.

As far as the TM backup not working I've seen your symptom from healthy drives, TM is still a work in progress. It takes a dump sometimes for no apparent reason. I've seen it want to start the whole backup over for no reason. My guess is directory corruption caused by it being cut off in the middle of a backup, sleep, shutdown etc.

When it does anything stupid I just wipe the backup and start over.

It's personal experience for me. I'll buy a Seagate first.

still running preparing 44,000 items!!!