Best Hard Drive Make?

[Pointer]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering who makes THE best Hard Drives? Quantum? Western Digital? IBM? Maxtor? Who is it? In terms of quality and speed who are THE best?

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[Oyeve]

Here we go again. IBM!

 

[Biggs]

IBM and Maxtor are considered the top two IDE drives around here.

 

[Gunbuster]

Really as long as you dont get a Trijem, or "new conner" you will be OK

The only major choices are Maxtor and IBM

Quantum is turning into a OEM for mostly TIVO's and other STB's and a lot of the western digi's are clones of IBM's

 

[Biggs]

How "bad" is the Conner?

 

[Gunbuster]

This Bad: "new Conner"

 

[Sunner]

Use the search function, there's been millions of these threads, with about equal numbers of IBM and Maxtor fans.

Me, I go with IBM mostly out of habbit, but you cant go wrong with either really.

One thing that everyone always agree on though, is that Western Digital sucks

 

[Eug]

IBM.

I refuse to buy Maxtor though. I've had too many of those fail on overclocked systems. One was even purchased just in fall of 2000, although I admit it was a 5400 rpm one.

 

[Insane3D]

IBM..

 

[LXi]

Maxtor-Quantum...
I dont know what people are doing to make it fail when overclocked, I personally have not failed any of my Maxtors due to overclocking dating back to 1998, nor has other Maxtor owners.

 

[Eug]

<< I dont know what people are doing to make it fail when overclock, I personally have not failed any of my Maxtors by overclocking dating back to 1998, nor has other Maxtor owners. >>

Well, I know of many people who have been fine with Maxtors (including yourself), but a brief jaunt over to the Storage Review will tell you that lots of people have had problems with the older Maxtors (circa 1995-1998). However, people had been having better luck with recent Maxtors so I bought one. Nope, toasted the thing in hours at 38.3 MHz. But it's true that the 5400 rpm ones have been much worse than the 7200 rpm models according to the reports. (Actually, to be quite honest, the only Maxtors I've toasted have all been 5400 rpm, but Maxtor has left such a bad taste in my mouth that I have sworn off even 7200 rpm ones for now.)

 

[Horsepower]

Read my lips &quot;IBM&quot;

 

[LXi]

Oh brother... well, I hope you could try one of their 7200rpm drives before dissing them.

 

[Oyeve]

Maxtor, IMO, has never been reliable for me. Too many failures for no apparent reason, loud as hell, just plain feel chintzy. IBM has never failed me even when I drop em on the floor

 

[han888]

i think IBM and the second is quantum, my quantum can run at 41 pci bus speed, really love this hard drive

 

[Frost]

Never really paid much attention to the pci bus they can run at but I've had my IBM all the way up to 35mhz w00t! My personal list would go like this:

1.)IBM
2.)Maxtor
3.)Seagate
4.)Western Digital <-Boooooo Had 3 out of 4 of these that I had bought over that last 2 years die. Booooo!

 

[GoldenTiger]

MAXTOR! IBM is a VERY close second, however.

 

[GoldenTiger]

Why the hell would you overclock a hard drive? Of course it will fail!

I've used both 5400rpms and 7200rpms Maxtor in OC'd machines without problem... I don't run them as OC regularly, but I've tested before to see for about a week and nothing happened that was bad. Just because one guy crashes his car in an accident, should no one ever buy that car brand again?? Stop being so paranoid!

 

[GoldenTiger]

Maxtors are quiet, fast, and inexpensive... they're exactly like IBMs. And how does a hard drive &quot;feel chintzy&quot; anyway?? You can't feel the hard drive LOL.

 

[Dulanic]

<< Maxtor, IMO, has never been reliable for me. Too many failures for no apparent reason, loud as hell, just plain feel chintzy. IBM has never failed me even when I drop em on the floor >>



Loud as hell? I've never even heard mine ever. Maxtor has gotten alot better... and their customer service is #1 period.

 

[Dulanic]

<< Why the hell would you overclock a hard drive? Of course it will fail! >>



If you are OCing your PCI bus you are also OCing your HDs in effect.

 

[sadb0i]

IBM
but it doesnt really matter an IBM 20 gig 7200 wont be much of a change from a seagate 20 gig 7200...price/perfomance-wise it aint worth the extra money for the minor change...

 

[SpongeBob]

IBM is the best in my opinion, I also like Quantum. I've had bad luck with Maxtor's.

 

[Eug]

<< Oh brother... well, I hope you could try one of their 7200rpm drives before dissing them. >>

True, except that I've heard more overclocking problems reported with the 7200 rpm Maxtor drives than the IBM ones too, both on AnandTech and on the Storage Review forums.

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<< Just because one guy crashes his car in an accident, should no one ever buy that car brand again?? Stop being so paranoid! >>

Well, a couple of instances I know for a fact that it was the Maxtor drive that was the consistent problem. CPU is fine. Overclock the computer to 37.5 MHz PCI bus --> computer crashes. Swap out the Maxtor drive, everything runs fine, overclocked or not. While I have had other drives crash over a period of time overclocked, I've never had any other drive instantaneously fail when adjusting the PCI bus speed, unless to crazy high or crazy low speeds. I do not consider 37.5 or even 38.3 crazy high, at least judging by my results with other brands.

I have tried Fujitsu, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, and Western Digital on overclocked systems.

 

[thorin]

Quantum and IBM according to Storagereview.com

IMHO Go Quantum, I've never had or seen any problems with them. Don't go with Maxtors (IMHO) they don't last and can't handle the OC'ing and load that the majority of people on this forum put on them. (Maxtor for Average Joe). IBM seems to be highly recommended but I haven't worked on/with them personally.

Thorin