HDD opinions

Tongy · August 18, 2006, 15:39:30 PM

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

Start another thread by all means.

Cheers
Tongy

Mardoni · August 18, 2006, 15:45:53 PM

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" !!

GaviN · August 18, 2006, 15:45:59 PM

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.

GaviN · August 18, 2006, 15:46:37 PM

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

Clock'd 0Ne · August 18, 2006, 15:47:04 PM

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.

soopahfly · August 18, 2006, 16:16:28 PM

Samsung.

IMO, there is none quieter, and faster unless your talking Raptor.

filbert · August 18, 2006, 16:24:57 PM

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.

Norphy · August 18, 2006, 17:48:15 PM

Seagate. They might not be any more reliable than other brands out there but they come with the best warranty.

brummie · August 18, 2006, 22:29:16 PM

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.

Walrusbonzo · August 18, 2006, 23:10:33 PM

Using a couple of 250GB Hitachis, great drives, but voted for Seagate due to their 5 year warranty. How can you lose?

Leon · August 18, 2006, 23:18:39 PM

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

bear · August 18, 2006, 23:30:50 PM

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.

Pete · August 18, 2006, 23:55:16 PM

Cost:benefit > make.

Beaker · August 19, 2006, 23:59:28 PM

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.

Gandalf · August 20, 2006, 00:19:43 AM

Ive always used Maxtor, never had a problem.

Hi beaker!

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