Most Reliable Hard Drive

[Brainly]

Too bad the question was "40 ... 80 gb hd"
If it would be for any hard drive, it'd be Quantum Fireball. Never had any problems with my trusty 5 GB quantum...

 

[Achinz]

I've been looking at the poll results regularly and am surprised at the consistency of WD at 50% preferred from close to the start of the poll.

 

[RedWolf]

I will never again buy either Seagates or Maxtors. "back in the day" I had a Maxtor 800 mb drive (or was it 850?). Doesn't matter.

Anyway I decided to buy a Seagate to add to the mahchine - 1.2 gb I believe. The seagate drive came with this software called "Drive wizard" or some such crap. Was DOS based but was kind of an alternative to using FDISK. I knew how to use FDISK but decided to use this software instead for whatever reason.

Anyway, half way through partitioning/formatting process the program crashed. I rebooted and BOOM. I had NO hard drives. The Seagate wasn't partitioned or formatted and the Maxtor was completely useless. Giving me nasty errors whenever I tried to do anythig to it. Couldn't partition it, couldn't format it. Anyway My "comuputer pimp" (to steal the term from an earlier post) friend took the drive and worked some magic on it and it worked again (although I lost ALL of my data). I took the seagate back and got a western digital and used that as the master and the maxtor as the slave. However every so often the maxtor was just go bad and I'd lose everything on it. It was usefull for the kind of stuff that you wanted to store but could always replace (games, etc.).

I never figured out WHICH drive caused the problem but it annoyed me enough that I swore to never go near either.

WD on the other hand.. NEVER had a problem.

 

[crystal]

Samsung is missing from this poll. (They are imho pretty good and quiet hard drives.)

 

[HAND]

Samsung made my 4gb drive.. it was solid as a rock for the two years i had it.

I upgraded to a Maxtor 40gb it ran like the wind for the first 11 months, then it suddenly slowed down and started making a horrible screeching noise and after 20 months that it was so slow that is was taking 20 minutes just to get into Windows 2k!!

I then bought another Maxtor 60gb drive to replace it and i haven't had a problem since October 2002..(touch wood)
So its possible that it could have just been bad luck but reading this thread other maxtor problems seem consistent with my own..

Next time i'm going for Western Digital for sure... judging by the good press WD always gets.

Don't go Maxtor... its too risky IMHO.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Originally posted by Turner_727
We have a bunch of Maxtor's at work, and they're not bad. The only problem I've had with one, I created. I, umm, did a 'stress test' and it failed the acceleration part. okay, I dropped it.

So Maxtor's are okay, but if I was going to buy one, I'd probably get a WD drive, myself.

I would definately recommend WD. A few weeks ago, I had my old WD drive on the front seat of my car when the car rolled over. The drive survived, the car didn't.

 

[Marx]

I am owner of:

WD 30 GB 5400rpm
WD 120 GB 7200rpm 8mb cache
WD 160 GB 7200rpm 8mb cache
Seagate 160 GB 7200 2mb cache

WD is my favourite.
Don't buy maxtors of 120 or more gigabyte.. They fail far to frequently.

 

[_Z_]

WD is the best for me. Next followed by IBM then Maxtor.

Beware European customers if your maxtor goes bad, you must send it to Ireland even if guarantee it is at own cost, as good company they then send you "free" a repaired or new drive.

I own
My PC
45 gb IBM
60 gb IBM
80 gb Maxtor
250 gb WD

Other pc
4gb WD
10gb WD

Also watch out that your mobo supports drivers over 137 gb

 

[CruddyLeper]

Originally posted by FireBall
I believe it was stated that the drives in queestion run at 7200 RPM and are therefore not SCSI. SCSI is far too expensive, anyyhow, 10K RPM SATA work well...

Oh well, in that case all the selections are pants.

SATA? Half the speed of U320, my friend.

You get what you pay for.

 

[FireBall]

U320 is not the best type of hard-rdive out there by any means. Thgey are often instable and I've had some serious problems with them in the past...

Back to you,

You get what you pay for.

 

[damunzy]

Originally posted by hbdragon88
"Failed the acceleration test."

LOL, sounds more like it failed the "de-celeration" test.

As for my choice: WD all the way. My last purchased drive was a WD 80GB Special Ed (8MB cache). Love it, love it! I also have a Maxtor 40 GB in this machine. I once had to return it because the drive failed. The return policy was great - with a credit card to back it up they sent me a replacement and I sent them the bad drive in the replacement drive's packaging. Never had problems with my WDs though

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by munzy
LOL, sounds more like it failed the "de-celeration" test.

As for my choice: WD all the way. My last purchased drive was a WD 80GB Special Ed (8MB cache). Love it, love it!

I got exactly the same one. Not sure if the 8 MB cache adds anything, but it only cost me an extra $NZ 5 IIRC!