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maxtor vs western digital

This is no better. If there was, everyone would buy one brand. I have Seagate, WD, and Maxtor. My Maxtors and WD's have had the same trouble free service.
 
What CalvinHobbes said, although I'd like to add that several people will probably come rushing in telling you one brand is reliable and the other isn't (or maybe that both suck). By and large, there are no overall reliability differences between brands (each has the occasional bad batch), and performance differences are between MODELS, not manufacturers.
 
All my maxtors have died, none of my western digitals or seagates have died. I still have some 250MB WD's from the early 90's that still work. I only had a few maxtors though and may have just had bad luck, but I won't get them anymore.
 
Maxtor has a reputation of being somewhat less stable, although they ARE great innovators. They used to be a lot better in the past, right now I'd typically go with other companies.

Western Digital's Raptor line is hard to beat at the tasks they excel at, I'm not sure of their modern Caviar line. Seagate's Barracudas are stellar performers, I have bought the most of these in the past few years.

Some other notable mentions, but not through my personal experience are Fujitsu and Hitachi (IBM).
 
Originally posted by: svi
What CalvinHobbes said, although I'd like to add that several people will probably come rushing in telling you one brand is reliable and the other isn't (or maybe that both suck). By and large, there are no overall reliability differences between brands (each has the occasional bad batch), and performance differences are between MODELS, not manufacturers.
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Absolutely agree here.
 
My Raptor started developing bad sectors after a year. WD sent me an advanced replacement so all is fine now. I've never had a Maxtor drive die on me. Not saying it couldn't though.
 
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
This is no better. If there was, everyone would buy one brand. I have Seagate, WD, and Maxtor. My Maxtors and WD's have had the same trouble free service.
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Yes, I have similarly good experience using both Maxtors, WDs, as well as several other brands of HDs.

 
I've used at bunch of hard drives and only had one die on me. It was an old 500meg western digital that died about 8 months after buying it new 🙂 I think I paid $150 for it back in the day.

I've also seen a 10,000rpm seagate scsi drive die, but that thing was hammered 24 hours a day every day for several years (in a general server/web server/database server)
 
WD or Seagate for me

And Seagate only since they came out with their Barracuda IV line. Their old drives were garbage, but so were most back then.

 
I have an antique 120GB 2MB Cache 5400RPM Samsung drive that is at least 5 yrs old that still works perfectly and it's been on close to 24/7 in various computers I've had. I have Maxtors, Seagates, and WDs and I like them all, I usually just go by the price. Except for my two Raptors 🙂
 
WD 1800JBRTL (Caviar) died after 2.5 years of service. It should have lasted longer, but I replaced it with another WD. My next build will be Seagate.
 
None. Only Seagate. In all my years of IT only maxtor and WDs have died on me. Mostly maxtor. But if push came to shove and seagate was not on the plate I would say WD.
 
Neither. They both suck but if you have to pick one of them, I'd go with WD, Maxtor has died out on me a couple times in the past.

My vote goes to Seagate, or Samsung
 
Seagate here. I've had my first Seagate since March and am loving it and you can't beat the 5 year warranty. Don't know if Maxtor or WD offer that.

Not to mention they are quiet.
 
The biggest difference right now is Seagates 5 year warranty. As far as quality, speed etc. they bare pretty much equal. Just make sure the packaging of the drive isn't damaged ie. some stupid guy in the store dropped it, and you should be good to go.
 
Don't know about the newer Maxtors but the ones from a year or so ago ain't much. Between me and my sister I've RMA'ed several over 2 years. Non of them totally died but made the clunk of death noise.
 
While I've seen my share of WD drives fail, I can at least say that WD has always been very easy to deal with on getting RMA's.

Not only that but alot of times if they dont make that model anymore they'll just send you a new (or refurbished) newer model. This has been especially true since the 8meg cache thing has caught on.

Maxtor on the other hand was hit or miss on the RMA's.

Samsungs used to be garbage too but their spinpoint models have been quite good.
 
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