Large IDE Hard Drives - Which ones are best??? and where can you find ratings?

[Xtreme11]

I just noticed some great prices on large (40GB or larger) Seagate, Samsung, and some other brand hard drives, and wondered where I could find ratings on them, and if they are as good as my IBM deskstars and WD Caviers? I'm interested in the 7200RPM/100UDMA bracket because that is what seems to be the biggest bang for your buck, and all newer computers can use them fairly well as upgrades or new system builds (sure, SCSI may still reign according to some of you hardcore power users, but not when I can get twice the drive for half the price). Thanks for your views and help on this issue as Anandtech hasn't done many reviews on the actual drives, although their RAID section is pretty darn cool!

 

[TunaBoo]

<< I just noticed some great prices on large (40GB or larger) Seagate, Samsung, and some other brand hard drives, and wondered where I could find ratings on them, and if they are as good as my IBM deskstars and WD Caviers? I'm interested in the 7200RPM/100UDMA bracket because that is what seems to be the biggest bang for your buck, and all newer computers can use them fairly well as upgrades or new system builds (sure, SCSI may still reign according to some of you hardcore power users, but not when I can get twice the drive for half the price). Thanks for your views and help on this issue as Anandtech hasn't done many reviews on the actual drives, although their RAID section is pretty darn cool! >>


These are general sterotypes I have aquired from working in the industry:

Segate - Now owned by Maxtor. Not quite as good but they are pretty decent
Samsung - Not used much, so I cant say
Western Digital - shoddy, stay away if possible
fijistu - stay far far away
maxtor - very reliable, also very fast
IBM - arguably the fastest, pretty quiet (for 7200 drives) stay away from 75GXPs, but 60GXP's are okay (I use 60's and maxtors in my personal systems)

 

[Remedy]

Since when is Seagate owned by Maxtor? Its Quantum who is owned and merged with Maxtor, Seagate is still in control of what they do. Also as i remember from a Computer show i went to, Western digital drives are made by IBM. I think must be the less quality basket they toss the IBM drives in and western Digital picks them up, or some other way. I don't know if it still holds truth but i may be wrong too...

 

[Deskstar]

One evaluation site that tests and posts results of hard drive performance:

Hard Drive Evals

 

[Remedy]

The thing about web reviews i notice now is that, they don't test real world scenrios. So its hard to say what can happen when you actually purchase the drive and go home with it, fire it up. One review might say a Western Digital isn't good because it isn't as fast as a Ibm. My point is this; if it stores data and for a good enough price then it doesn't bother me what that drive got on a Benchmark cause its doing exactly what i want it to do. That is store data and not flake out. Thats why i bought my Quantum LMs last year on a pricewatch vendor for dirt cheap now you can get a 30 gig 7200rpm drive for around 100 dollars, it aint no Ibm but it does the same job. IMHO atleast

 

[TunaBoo]

Brain fart, the blue is gettin to my brain