Freeder Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 Having a few HD fail on me, I'm not too quick on purchasing new harddrives. I was wonder what harddrive brands gave you good service and didnt crap out on you. My friend is all for Seagates, and I think WesternDigitals are reliable. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 (edited) well i WILL ONLY BUY WD caviar drives.. thats all i buy. .and will ever buy.. i dont trust maxtor.. or segate Edited October 7, 2004 by asus Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeder Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 Dont forget the king of crappy HD: Hitachi. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindDrive Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 thats funny asus, i have a whole pile of caviar harddrives that i use as decoration and for explanation tools cause they have all failed, i use maxtors 80gb 8MB cache ATA133 as a primary, and seagates 120gb ATA100 harddrive as a slave and have absolutely no problems with them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 For the most part the hdd's of today are great at the moment all i have are WD caviars but the maxtor diamon max 9 or 10 series are good so are the newer hitachi and the seagates for the record i have a 15 gig wd that is now almost 5 years old and still kicking strong Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 thats funny asus, i have a whole pile of caviar harddrives that i use as decoration and for explanation tools cause they have all failed, i use maxtors 80gb 8MB cache ATA133 as a primary, and seagates 120gb ATA100 harddrive as a slave and have absolutely no problems with them i think your lieing to me.. i have 4 WD caviar hd's currentally.. 3 in my server 1 in my main compuer.. 2 of the the 3 that ar in my server are 3 years old.. the other is 2 year old.. our old Packard Bell's 800 mb wd caviar still works.. IDK what your trying to say.. but i have only had problems with maxtor.. i have had maxtor drives before and i have had problems.. my grandfather just got his 80gb maxtor replaced because it failed with a grinding noise .. and if its true.. i would like to see a pic of all thoes caviars in a pile you speek of.. because frankley, i bet my hd could survive a earthquake.. there that well built.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindDrive Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 lol yeah - i have had my share of maxtor drives go out as well but only the 20 gig and under it seems - ill post a pic of my pile O drives soon as my gf gets her camera finished i think my smallest harddrive is a 120 somethin mb drive and i used to have a buttload of 1.2gb and 2.5gb hd's that i got out of serviced puters - most of which i kept for throwin files on and sticking in a box but i would hafta say THEEE worst drive ever was the quantum fireballs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 (edited) Being the service tech at a computer shop, I see some of our systems coming back due to SMART failure. Sure enough, Maxtor DiamondMax Series 9 2MB cache drives. Had 3-5 of them fail in one week. Never seen the WD BB and JB drives come back and the Seagates are worthy of my approval. Edit: I've had my Fireball+ AS 20GB drive for over 3 years and it is still running strong Edited October 7, 2004 by FxXP Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 I've had the best of luck with Seagate drives, however I do have a mix of Seagate, WD, and Maxtor drive. 90-95% of the problems I've had with HDDs have been related to other problems. (i.e. OS problems, memory failure, power failure, etc.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerJaySimpson Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 From what i've seen, Maxtor seem to be the worst of the lot. Currently i have Seagate and will be purchasing a WD external soon. I've had no probs whatsoever with Seagate but my dad who has Maxtor has had loadsa trouble with his! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 Dont forget the king of crappy HD: Hitachi. woot! right on dude. i've had 3 IBM/maxtor drives fail on me - i've got a 40gig drive that was sent to me as RMA replacement......... ........refusing to use it as it is a liability edit: remember, HD's can survive a few G's worth of force before they are quoted to get damaged! but as d3 said, they are mostly due to software/power failures. I use one WD 120gig and a Maxtor PLus 9 160gig - together they are both superb. I want a seagate to add to the family now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchuwato Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 ibm failed on me seagate failed on me wd hasn't maxtor hasn't samsung has Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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