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  

Infact i think my old man still uses that in his old machine - just dont ask  

Quote from: brummie

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  :?

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