Favorite Brand of HDD:

[timswim78]

My favorite is Maxtor:
I have had far less problems with them than other brands. The only problem I had was minor, and they RMA'd me one without a problem.

 

[Nohr]

I don't have one really. I've had Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital drives and they've all served me well. I'd prolly stick with those three brands.

IBM still scares me.

 

[jarsoffart]

Seagate makes those nice quiet Barracuda IV drives. Does Toshiba make desktop drives?

 

[faye]

i have use Quantum and Western Digital lately.

right now using WD800JB (8mb cache) which i am quite satisfy.

 

[RaymondY]

I use Western Digital 95% of the time and have a couple of Maxtor (becuase they had a great $$ AR)

Haven't had a Western Digital HDD fail on me yet. I can currently running a 80GB (SE) on my primary rig at home and my work rig.

A++ on performance and reliability

 

[everman]

IBM Deathstar

 

[pillage2001]

MAxtor.

 

[awal]

Maxtor...

Seagates are pretty good...

Every WD I have ever owned has died at some point.

 

[GoSharks]

cheetah

 

[BoomAM]

Maxtor. I`ll never but IBM again.
Not saying that they`re bad, but i just dont like them.

Ive only ever owned 3 drives.

3.2gb 5400RPM Western Digital.
OK but a bit on the slow side. Loud as well.

20.1gb 5400RPM IBM.
RUBBISH. 3 months after purchasing, it failed, and i had to send it back to IBM for a replacement. Lost all of my GSCE work as well.

40.2gb 7200RPM Maxtor.
Great. Brought as a replacement for the 20gb IBm cos i couldnt be A$#ed waiting for IBM. fast & quiet.

 

[UncleWai]

Maxtor = quality
WD = value

 

[RobCur]

Quantum+maxtor= suck, recently they are getting better but in the past years or so it's been nothing but Quantum drive with cosmestic changes. It left a bad taste in my mouth, what the? this is not maxtor but a rebadged quantum! god, this is one reason why they went out of business. It's either Samsung or WD for me this time, at moment I do not have any WD but if I can find a good price, I'll go for it.

 

[eplebnista]

Maxtor

 

[exp]

IBM is the only manufacturer I've ever had a problem with. Seagate, Maxtor, and WD have all been good to me.

 

[beatle]

I've had all but Fujitsu and Samsung drives. I really don't have a preference as I've had one of every brand fail: Maxtor, IBM, Quantum and WD. IBM hurt the most because I lost the most. I voted no preference.

 

[zodder]

I have a couple Seagate Barracuda IVs and they are fast, quiet and reliable. I don't think I'd ever buy anything but Seagate.

Maxtor's RMA policy is the best in the biz, though.

 

[AAjax]

Maxtor if just for the painless RMA process

 

[Spyro]

Western digital, but I'll buy anything but IBM.

 

[andrey]

I have 3 IBM 75GXP (one 20Gb and two 30GB) hard drives and never had a single issue with any of them.

 

[LexPliant]

I would vote for IBM, i have 22GXP, 60 GXP, very fast, reliable, never fail, I just bought a WD120JB, weird firmware, sometimes slow sometimes fast, no idea, the only reason that I bought WD, is because I can no longer find IBM drives in Canada. But if I had choice I would buy IBM again, very good performance, have yet to fail me

 

[ProviaFan]

Western Digital is my favorite, but I've used Maxtor drives also and liked them too.

 

[JSang]

a vote for WD if ide but seagate if scsi.

 

[Jeff7]

I've used Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate, Maxtor, JTS Corp, and IBM drives - that I can remember now anyway - haven't had many problems. I have had RMA experience with WD and Samsung:
Western Digital: the drive kept shutting down and resetting itself. RMA'd it - easy to do; gave them CC#, they sent me a refurbished drive drive, I installed it, and found it was doing the same thing. I sent back my drive anyway, and kept the refurb'd - once I got a new power supply, everything worked fine. Oops.

Samsung: Someone just decided to give me a dead 20GB drive he had laying around awhile. Warranty was still good - RMA'd it, got a new drive, sent the old one. The drive's worked just fine for me.

My main system has an IBM 120GXP main drive and a Seagate Barracuda secondary drive; the video station system, which is nearly as powerful as my main system, has 2 Western Digital drives in RAID 0, and a third, smaller WD drive as extra storage.

 

[saber800]

Seagate!!!

I got a Barracuda IV and its amazing!! The thing is so friggin quiet!

 

[ant80]

WD. I got a maxtor once, and it went out on me. Stayed with wd ever since. Got a 40, 80 and a 120. Hehe.