HDDs: Samsung vs Seagate?

OK, so after almost seven years I decide to get a brand new, solid gaming PC (have been using my Toshiba laptop to partially satiate my gaming hunger/thank God for Paradox Interactive's mediocre graphics), and I can't decide whether I should invest my hard-earned cash in a Samsung or Seagate hard drive. I have been googling extensively for the past hour and I have read both positive and negative reviews about these two.

Now, I'd be glad if you could write about your experiences here and tell me whether you are satisfied with your Sammy/Seagate HDD (I haven't really checked Hitachi or Western Digital out, not yet anyway). Allow me to say that silence is my main criteria, followed closely by stability and safety.

Thanks everyone.

I've used Western Digital extensively from Raptors to their regular stuff and never had a single issue with any of them. We're talking about 15 or so drives over 6-7 years.

Recently I've been using Hitachi drives, they are among the fastest single user drives, offer good price/performance ratio and have a 5 year warrenty. In 3 years and 5 drives again zero problems.

Go with Seagate, they are faster than any other producer and they give 5 years warrantydayaccus007

Not according to benchmarks done at StorageReview, there isn't a single Seagate one the single user/desktop list: http://www.storagereview.com/leaderboard.sr

Ive had really bad luck with WD and Maxtor.

Maxtor is just crap. Stay away from it. period.

WD im going to chalk up to bad luck since they are widely known to be reliable.

Ive had really bad luck with WD and Maxtor.

Maxtor is just crap. Stay away from it. period.

WD im going to chalk up to bad luck since they are widely known to be reliable.

Alter_Echo

Samsung has been doing HDD's for about 15 years. Alter_Echo

In computers? I knew they made HD's but I thought it was mostly in cell phones.

Yes. In computers. I distinctly remember having a 486 with a 16mb Samsung hard drive back in the day.

Goes to show how times change. The cache on a drive now is bigger than the entire drive was back then.

Haven't had any experiences with Samsungs.

But I personally don't trust seagate anymore. I had 2 seagates crash on me in the past 10 years. One of which i puked out $1000+ to recover what I could. It held all my important work files.

Don't get me wrong, Seagates are great performers (I admit, I still buy their 7200.11/7200.10 and what not to test their performance for fun, but I use WD raptors).

I just keep my important stuff in anything but Seagates from then on.