Following on from a chat with my old mucker Nimrod, I am asking "In your opinion who makes the most reliable 3.5" Internal IDE/SATA drives".
Just state who you reckon, not how crap everything else is and your tale of woe :D Start another thread by all means.
Cheers
Tongy
Ive never had any problems *touch wood* with:
WD or Sammys.
Ive had personal failures with Hitachi (Deathstar) and Seagates.
At work, we pretty much only use Maxtor and have had a stupid number of failures.
Our data recovery agent on the otherhand says that we are unlucky with the Maxtors. He keeps a spreadsheet of all of the disks he has to recover and in his opinion they are, and I quote, "All as bad as one another" !!
Has to be seagate for me.
Maxtor run to hot and are crunchy, WD dont even deserve to be voted on but i havnt used one for a few years so they may have improved.
Quote from: NimrodOur data recovery agent on the otherhand says that we are unlucky with the Maxtors. He keeps a spreadsheet of all of the disks he has to recover and in his opinion they are, and I quote, "All as bad as one another" !!
I can believe that really
Seagate for me, Samsung a close second.
Seagate are easily the most reliable and are going from strength to strength. WD are almost as flaky as Maxtor IMO, and good riddance to Maxtor.
Samsung.
IMO, there is none quieter, and faster unless your talking Raptor.
Seagate for me, I always used them till the last one I bought with the recommendation of pcpro a maxtor.
Sounds like a sowing machine.
Seagate. They might not be any more reliable than other brands out there but they come with the best warranty.
WD for me.
Never let me down and ive only mainly used them and IBM/hitachi drives.
Been using them my very first 2gig drive :)
Tried maxtor once and sold it about a month later. Had two, one broke and they were very slow and noisey.
had a couple of fujitsus for a while. they were very good drives too.
Using a couple of 250GB Hitachis, great drives, but voted for Seagate due to their 5 year warranty. How can you lose?
My WD Raptor has served me well for coming up 2 years now, 2x WDs I had before are still going, 1x WD did die but i had a replacement (and 50gig bigger) in 4 days.
Next vote goes for either sammy or seagate
I dont know none of mine have broken yet not shure what I have really gonna have a look just a sec.... one is WDC
and one IC ( what is that :) ) in this machine.
Maxtor is bad but have good support, my friend just put 5 200GB Sata drives in his server, he said if they brake one runs their software and get a code to give them and u have a new drive before u have sent the old one to them.
Cost:benefit > make.
Ive used mainly Maxtor for years, and hardly had a problem with them. Used to have real issues with the Samsung drives, though i assume they got better. Ill still not touch a deathstar with a sh*tty stick though. Those bloody things cost me too much time and money in both IBM and Hitachi brands. Ill never use them as 1st preference again. Travelstar are excellent though, ill give you that.
Ive always used Maxtor, never had a problem. :)
Hi beaker! :)
Im prob tempting fate here, but Ive never had a disk failure !
My first Amiga 1200 HDD still runs perfectly, as does the 80MB disk from my first PC!
Amiga 1200 hard drives rocked ! tho I had to turn 1/2 my 8meg of extra ram off to make it work :(
anyway.... surely a "which HDs suck/fail" poll would have been better ?
Quote from: knightyAmiga 1200 hard drives rocked ! tho I had to turn 1/2 my 8meg of extra ram off to make it work :(
anyway.... surely a "which HDs suck/fail" poll would have been better ?
Only if you are a "cups half empty" type.
Cheers
Tongy
So far I have never had an unreliable hard drive except from IBM...
Most of them should last for at least five years by which time the capacity becomes a restriction and upgrading to a new one a no brainer option.
My first drive was a 170mb jobbie, large for the time when the average was more like 40 and the price of Ã,£1 per mb prohibitive. I coveted the very few 512MB drives from companies like Quantum but at something like Ã,£500 was well out of my price range...
The 170 was still working five years later by which time the size just wasnt worth continuing with and reliability has improved a lot since then. Most companies also have more than one range of drives available at a time and while one may be dodgy the others wont be.
Samsung Spinpoints ... absolutely superb!
Quote from: BeakerIve used mainly Maxtor for years, and hardly had a problem with them. Used to have real issues with the Samsung drives, though i assume they got better. Ill still not touch a deathstar with a sh*tty stick though. Those bloody things cost me too much time and money in both IBM and Hitachi brands. Ill never use them as 1st preference again. Travelstar are excellent though, ill give you that.
they only had problems with the one drive :?
Quote from: SeriousMy first drive was a 170mb jobbie, large for the time when the average was more like 40 and the price of Ã,£1 per mb prohibitive. I coveted the very few 512MB drives from companies like Quantum but at something like Ã,£500 was well out of my price range...
Forgot about the quantum, we had one of them :D
Infact i think my old man still uses that in his old machine - just dont ask :roll:
Quote from: brummieQuote from: BeakerIve used mainly Maxtor for years, and hardly had a problem with them. Used to have real issues with the Samsung drives, though i assume they got better. Ill still not touch a deathstar with a sh*tty stick though. Those bloody things cost me too much time and money in both IBM and Hitachi brands. Ill never use them as 1st preference again. Travelstar are excellent though, ill give you that.
they only had problems with the one drive :?
60GXP, 75GXP were both diabolical and both initiated class action lawsuits. The 120GXP was also pretty dire by anyone elses standards. IBM HDDS are indefensible IMO.
So a resounding win for Seagate, followed by Western Digital.
Cheers
Tongy