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Best Hard Drive brand?

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pcgamer321

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So, I am looking for a hard drive that will basically be for storage, as I have a raptor for games and speed and such.

So I'm wondering what is the best brand for a 500g 7200rpm HD? Seagate(one I know most about), Western Digital, Samsung, Maxtor or what? Lol, I'm so confused.

Help and suggestions?
 
For storage go w/ either
1.) lowest price
2.) best warranty
There seems to be a period when every hdd mfg has its "bad times" where an abnormal percentage of their hdds fail. I'm guessing samsung and seagate have perpendicular 500GB hdds (WD does not). Go for the lowest $/GB is my suggestion.

Didn't seagate come out w/ perpendicular technology first? Well whatever, they are a good company.
 
Western Digital and Seagate have reputations for high quality. I'm using all Western Digital drives at the moment, even some from 2003 and I've never had one fail (but that is purely anecdotal evidence). Maxtor are Seagate's low-end range now.
 
WDC and Seagate are the most popular. Hitachi has a very good SATA drive with the best multi user performance at 7200rpm. Fujitsu makes the best 15k SCSI/SAS drive.

Samsung spinpoint is the quietest although the new green 1TB by WDC is supposed to beat it in overall quietness.

I tend to avoid Maxtor. Just about every Dell we have that's had HDD issues had a Maxtor drive in it. :|
 
With the current generation of drives, Seagates are significantly louder than WD. Something to think about if you have a quiet computer.
 
Many of the reports of flaming (as in spontaneous combustion) hard drives come from Maxtor...

WD, Seagate are what I hear are quality. Not much talk on hitachi or samsung.
 
Had great luck with Seagate that past two years. I use their SATA/IDE in mid level servers, and haven't lost a one. So far (knock on wood) RAID 1 has been just been a waste of a drive.
 
Originally posted by: pcgamer321
I think Seagate has the best warrenty, so I should just go with that?
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yup, if the price is basically the same the longer warrantee atleast gives you a replacement if it fails.
anecdotal evidence of failure by users tends to mean nothing because people don't buy enough drives to have anywhere near a scientific sample, and drives are known to die enough that anyone who plays drive russian roulette is going to have their own pet selection of what drives have failed them personally. the result of the google drive study on hundred thousand + drives and another similar study is this. dont trust a freakin drive, they fail. cold heat/usage doesn't matter at all unless you are bashing it around or something freaky, if its gonna die, it'll die. the only factor is age, after a few years the risk jumps. so basically backup..and don't worry about drive brand.
 
Originally posted by: pcgamer321
I think Seagate has the best warrenty, so I should just go with that?
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Seagate offers 5 years warranty that is the reason I pick Seagate.
 
I've also been a WD / Seagate person until my 13 month old WD laptop drive (which I only used for 8 months) just suddenly crashed the other week. I'm sitting there browsing the web (posting on these forums actually) when I get an error "Firefox.exe not found" with that stupid Windows flashlight animation like it's searching for it. I shut er down then I get some other crazy windows error and I'm like wtf i better restart but upon restart windows wont boot. Turns out a massive chunk of the HD just obliterated itself so that even when I ran WD's tool to check drive for errors it fails half way through saying "Too many errors- contact Technical Support!", and with their silly 1 yr warranty I missed the deadline by literally one month.

I know, anecdotal incident but it was enough for me especially the warranty. Seagate with it's 3/5 year warranties wins the day IMO
 
alright, I will get a seagate for the hard drive. They aren't too loud right? My current seagate I can't tell because my 2900xt overpowers all lol
 
Love my Raptor, my Seagate 320GB 7200.10 has been a champ, my newer Samsung Spinpoint T 500GB is quite zippy and pretty much inaudible.

Just picked up a Hitachi 160GB drive for a system drive on a headless server. Haven't had time to play with it so I don't have much to say about it yet.

I'm at a point where I'm trying to not have HD bias. I haven't touched a Deskstar since IBM and their legendary Deathstar models. I had a bunch of Maxtor's I picked up at Staples back in the day and they're loud and awful but a 120GB IDE is sitll chugging away in a sytem I built for my girlfriend with no errors and abuse from years of duty but it's happy.

I don't think I'd ever get a Maxtor again, but between the major other brands (Samsung, Hitachi, WD, Seagate) I'm willing to give each brand a go. I'm in the process of building a 2TB WHS box and plan on stocking it with a 500GB model from each company. I suppose I could document which one dies first.
 
Some people like BMW, some like Mercedes, some like Rolls Royce.

Ther are all good cars and people choose them accroding to personal preference.

The Best is to Avoid the unnecessary Quest for the Best.

Zepper likes Hitachi.

Blain likes WD

I like Seagate.

At the moment none of us is wrong, it just a matter of personal preference.

Still confused do not know what to do?

The best is whats come out by doing inni mini miney moe among the three.
 
Well I already decided to get seagate, as I used them before, great, and has a 5 year warrenty. I think I'm starting to form a seagate preference lol. Even if it isn't the fastest it still plenty fast enough.

Plus barracuda just sounds cool lol.
 
I am surprised no one has mentioned Samsung. The Samsung F1 is faster than all other 7200rpm drives right now in virtually all respects. Also if you read comments about it on Newegg and other sites you see MUCH fewer negative comments about drive failures vs positive comments compared to the other brands.
 
Yup, Samsung drives are nice - generally win all the quietude awards. The name just doesn't spring to mind when thinking about HDDs - opticals on the other hand...

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Com80787
I am surprised no one has mentioned Samsung. The Samsung F1 is faster than all other 7200rpm drives right now in virtually all respects. Also if you read comments about it on Newegg and other sites you see MUCH fewer negative comments about drive failures vs positive comments compared to the other brands.
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Yeah, I mentioned my newish Samsung 500GB in a post above. I love it so far. I can't comment yet on reliability because it hasn't been used for very long.
 
Seagate or WD are the best bets ... most WD drives have a 3 year warranty & most Seagates have 5 years.

Maxtor is now owned by Seagate so drive quality should be similar.
 
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