Another Hard drive thread, who do you like?

[Colombo]

Before anyone get's on the search horse, I've searched and found the three threads out there.

I've currently got a few different drives, mostly I've got older 15 & 20 gig IBM drives. Which was before the whole IBM debaucle. I've got a maxtor and jts as well.

I've just built a new system with ata 100 capabilities, and would like to utilize it, so I'm looking into new drives.

I took a look at IBM's site and their drives, (the current ones haven't done me wrong) but I don't really want a hitachi drive with a relabeled IBM sticker.

I haven't had any issues with maxtor, however the current drive isn't very fast. Seagate, have some experience with old old drives, but their scsi/server background can't hurt how the drives perform.

WD, unless things have changed dramatically over the past 2-3 years, I've had nothing but problems with their drives. Very loud, slow, bad sectors, drives dieing, etc. So unless someone can really put the sales pitch in for them, I'm not really keen on going that direction.

My computers pretty much stay on 24/7, if that makes any difference in which drive to get.

Things I'm interested in is drive performance, reliability, noise. You can include price in there too I guess....but I don't mind spending some money on a good drive.

TIA

Josh

 

[OverVolt]

Seagate: for noise and reliability

WD: for speed, but not reliable

Maxtor: in the middle

IBM: if u don't wanna relabeled drive then stay away form them

You answered your own question, you dont like WD or IBM, you think Maxtor is too slow. so try a Seagate and see how it goes.

Anything new you buy will be blazing fast compared to those 15-20Gb oldies.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

So you want high performance, reliability, quiet operation, and low price?

You want a Lambourghini with that?

Something's gotta give in that list of four "I Wants". Personally, I'd recommend you ignore "I don't want an IBM relabled" and get one of the new 180GXP series.

- M4H

 

[Chobits]

My 80 Gig SE has been pushing it fine for 6 months now. I did have a old 4 gig that crapped on me and I put in a 20 gig MAxtor instead but I decided to give them another chance and with a 3 year warranty on the HDD (vs 1 year on the 8meg maxtor) its a nice safe feeling.

 

[FacelessNobody]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
So you want high performance, reliability, quiet operation, and low price?

You want a Lambourghini with that?

Something's gotta give in that list of four "I Wants". Personally, I'd recommend you ignore "I don't want an IBM relabled" and get one of the new 180GXP series.

- M4H

The 180GXP is a quality drive. Lots of people hate IBM (ok, ok, Hitachi) drives but they don't know what they're missing. Same goes for the people who hate Creative Labs for the SB Live! and Audigy 1 and refuse to try an Audigy 2 based on that hate. Get the 180GXP.

 

[Antoneo]

In terms of reliability, I've heard horror stories from all sides so it might be a toss up there. But generally Seagate is the quietest, WD fastest (a bit loud), and the Maxtor drives somewhere in between.

 

[timmyG]

ive never had any problem with the 2 maxtors ive had

 

[Chaotic42]

I've had 2 Seagate drives, one 540MB and a new 18 GB SCSI drive. The first was very reliable, I haven't had enough time to judge the second one.
I've had 2 Western Digital Drives, one 3.1GB and a new 80GB. The first was a freaking tank that withstood terrible amounts of punishment. The second has been humming along nicely for about a year.
I've had 4 Maxtor drives. Only one has made it longer than a year. It's still going strong, but it's been making noises lately.

 

[chr6]

i agree, seagates are great for reliability and quiet operation. i really can't remember having a seagate go bad on me. i've also had great luck with the western digital special edition drives. i stopped buying maxtor after a few dead drives.

 

[Ketchup]

I'm not sure why you think Maxtors are so slow, but I have a Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9, and it is the fastest single drive I have ever owned. It is about 50% faster than my IMB 60GXP (according to Sisoft Sandra), which I think is pretty darn impressive. And I have never heard about reliabilty problems with Maxtor drives, which is more than I can say for IBM and Western Digital.

 

[Colombo]

Thanks guys for the feedback.

I know I will have to make a compromise somewhere. I'll do some more homework and then try to make a decision based on that and your comments.

Josh

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

I personally swear by WD drives. I've yet to have one fail on me and I have found them to be consistantly faster than any of the seagate drives I have used. Actually, Come to think of it, I haven't had any drives fail on me...Even my old 75GXP is still kickin'.

 

[Corporate Thug]

i have never had a reliability issue with WD

 

[randumb]

Western Digital: Performancec
Maxtor: Performance competitor to Western Digital, but most drives are slower
Seagate: Quiet
IBM: Mix of performance, and quietness

 

[F1]

I recently built a P4 system for my parents. I went for the 80gig WD HDD with 8meg cache. Cant speak about its long term realiability but have had no problems so far. From what ive read its considered the best performing drive. I dont know why people refer to them being load, i couldnt even here it in there system, although i wasnt putting it through any intensive work.

 

[crasher88]

personaly I'm a Western Digital buy just love them never had a single problem with them

 

[EeyoreX]

Whoever has the best deal. Currently my systems are populated with either Maxtor or Western Digital. I have not had an IBM though, since I tend to buy my drives retail and I don't find them to be available around here. I have some old 2GB Seagate SCSI drives that still run. I have never had a problem with any drive I bought, not counting when I FUBAR'd an old Maxtor. As far as

I've just built a new system with ata 100 capabilities, and would like to utilize it, so I'm looking into new drives.

It doesn't really matter, since most times you barely top the ATA66 speeds, so the only real capability would be the ability to utilize drives requiring LBA (drives over 137GB). In many setups I have seen (everything from single drives to RAID 0) the highest bench I have seen was about 70MB/s on a RAID 0 array in a burst write. Mostly they hover at about 50-60MB/s.

\Dan

 

[Texun]

This is another Ford vs. Chevy debate. I have had 10 Maxtors during the past 5 years with one failure after 28 months. The others have been great and I have no performance complaints with them either.

I wanted to give WD a shot and now have 2 Special Ed drives working fine but they are only a few months old. My last experience with WD was terrible, but that was 5 years ago and I am hoping they have improved.

Go for one with a 3 year warranty. I went with the Special Ed drives from WD because they were cheaper at the time, got good reviews and came with a 3 year warranty. I would have stayed with Maxtor if I could have gotten the same deal at the time.