80GB, 7200rpm drive w/8MB buffer. Which one?

[zCypher]

Thanks for all the informative replies and tales of personal experience. I'm still having a hard time deciding though. One person here says Maxtors die all the time and WD are the best, one person says Seagate dies all the time and Maxtor's the best, one person says Seagate is the best and WD sucks or Maxtor sucks... etc. Lots of those replies based on personal experience, I know - but it seems that everyone has had bad luck with EVERY manufacturer at one point or another. So how do I choose? It looks as though I basically have the same chance with Seagate, Maxtor or WD of having no probs, or tons of them?

We just got IBMs in at work today, I don't think I'll be picking one of them up though... Nobody even mentions IBM in this thread. 😛

 

[GrumpyMan]

Originally posted by: zCypher
Thanks for all the informative replies and tales of personal experience. I'm still having a hard time deciding though. One person here says Maxtors die all the time and WD are the best, one person says Seagate dies all the time and Maxtor's the best, one person says Seagate is the best and WD sucks or Maxtor sucks... etc. Lots of those replies based on personal experience, I know - but it seems that everyone has had bad luck with EVERY manufacturer at one point or another. So how do I choose? It looks as though I basically have the same chance with Seagate, Maxtor or WD of having no probs, or tons of them?

We just got IBMs in at work today, I don't think I'll be picking one of them up though... Nobody even mentions IBM in this thread. 😛

Looks like you've answered your own question, based on the opinions you have recieved. All manufacterers have failures of one kind or another.

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: GrumpyMan

Originally posted by: zCypher
Thanks for all the informative replies and tales of personal experience. I'm still having a hard time deciding though. One person here says Maxtors die all the time and WD are the best, one person says Seagate dies all the time and Maxtor's the best, one person says Seagate is the best and WD sucks or Maxtor sucks... etc. Lots of those replies based on personal experience, I know - but it seems that everyone has had bad luck with EVERY manufacturer at one point or another. So how do I choose? It looks as though I basically have the same chance with Seagate, Maxtor or WD of having no probs, or tons of them?

We just got IBMs in at work today, I don't think I'll be picking one of them up though... Nobody even mentions IBM in this thread. 😛

Looks like you've answered your own question, based on the opinions you have recieved. All manufacterers have failures of one kind or another.

That doesn't help me decide what to buy! 😛 I want the drive that will be best performing, but I don't want it to die either. Ultima and I both have Quantum's and have never had probs with them (8.4 and 20.5 GB drives respectively). Since Maxtor owns Quantum now, would it be good to go with them? Or is there a REAL reason why I should go with Seagate or WD over Maxtor?

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[thorin]

Western Digital.

Thorin

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: thorin
Western Digital.

Thorin

Care to explain your position on this? 😛

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: zCypher

Originally posted by: thorin
Western Digital.

Thorin

Care to explain your position on this? 😛

I was just putting in my vote plain and simple but if you want more then no problem. My personal experience with this and other WD products is great, I've never had any problems with a WD drive. Second the performance of these (WD 8MB SE/JB) drives still remain at the top of the current heap. Last within my sphere of reference (friends, family, local comp store, etc....) everyone loves WD and specifically the SE/JB series.

Thorin

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: thorin

Originally posted by: zCypher

Originally posted by: thorin
Western Digital.

Thorin

Care to explain your position on this? 😛

I was just putting in my vote plain and simple but if you want more then no problem. My personal experience with this and other WD products is great, I've never had any problems with a WD drive. Second the performance of these (WD 8MB SE/JB) drives still remain at the top of the current heap. Last within my sphere of reference (friends, family, local comp store, etc....) everyone loves WD and specifically the SE/JB series.

Thorin

Thanks Thorin, that's what I was looking for.

 

[zCypher]

Text <-- this is the drive, correct? $157cdn... that should be about $90-100usd? about right? ... sounds alright to me, but I don't know.

 

[BarneyFife]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
I would take the MAxtor over the WD SE any day.

I've seen more WD SE dying than MAxtors. In fact, I've never seen any MAxtor died in my neighborhood. 😀 But did see 2 out of 3 WD SE dying in 3 months. 🙂

Amen to that. I refuse to buy WD anymore.

 

[zCypher]

Well I ordered an 80GB, 7200rpm, 8MB Western Digital from ShopLCI.com. We'll see how long it takes to get here. Hopefully they send the right drive! My bro bought his system from them and they gave him a 5400rpm Maxtor instead of the 7200rpm. It was so much slower. 😛 They shouldn't pull this on me though since i'm ordering an HD specifically and nothing else.

It's $157cdn. Pretty good deal, I saw a lot of the other online canadian stores selling the same drive for $185-210. Ripoff. 😛

 

[novice]

Good Luck with your WD, zCypher. It will probably work fine for you, and I still like the 3 year warranty. I have been and still am a Maxtor fan, so I had to try their new 80 gig 8 mb cache drive to see how it compares to my WD 80 gig SE. Also I got my Maxtor for about $67 US after tax, delivered, so I can't complain. (Although the WD SE was only $88 after mir, so wasn't that much more for the 3 year warranty). We will see which one dies first, hopefully neither!

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: novice
Good Luck with your WD, zCypher. It will probably work fine for you, and I still like the 3 year warranty. I have been and still am a Maxtor fan, so I had to try their new 80 gig 8 mb cache drive to see how it compares to my WD 80 gig SE. Also I got my Maxtor for about $67 US after tax, delivered, so I can't complain. (Although the WD SE was only $88 after mir, so wasn't that much more for the 3 year warranty). We will see which one dies first, hopefully neither!

I think most HDs fare pretty well, it's just a small percentage that don't have good luck, or if it's from a bad batch. I do like the idea of a 3 year warranty in case though.

How do you get it so god damn cheap though? $67us? $88us? Mine was still at about $105us...

 

[novice]

How do you get it so god damn cheap though? $67us? $88us?

By watching the local ads, the AT Hot Deals forum, and being aware of coupon codes posted on various websites. (Google is your friend, i.e. staples + coupons = search)

 

[yodayoda]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife

Originally posted by: pillage2001
I would take the MAxtor over the WD SE any day.

I've seen more WD SE dying than MAxtors. In fact, I've never seen any MAxtor died in my neighborhood. 😀 But did see 2 out of 3 WD SE dying in 3 months. 🙂

Amen to that. I refuse to buy WD anymore.

also, don't forget that Maxtor with their Advanced RMA has the best RMA process in the bix--you get a new drive in two days and then ship out your bad one. awesome, awesome system. WD RMA sucks ass. that being said, i just converted all my HDs to WD =P the raptors were just too sweet to pass up and i got 2 180GB WD drives for a song at crapUSA (something like $100 a piece). that is cheap bulk storage and ultra fast drives. i will miss you Maxtor RMA =(