Most Reliable Hard Drive Brand (Poll)

[edmundoab]

Originally posted by: gsellis
No IBM in the poll? Just kidding.

You mean the deathstar?
I had one, and it died

well Hitachi took over since then.

 

[imported_ic144]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
All my Hitachi and Samsung drives are still going strong as well.

- JaAG

Too bad the OP didn't think about adding Samsung or at least "Other" to her poll. :roll:

Samsung added.

 

[Raduque]

I vote Maxtor. All my living HDs that are more then 5 months old are Maxtors. I just bought 3 WDs (one 320gb couple weeks ago, a 250gb 3 days ago and an 80gb today) and have one 2 month old WD in my HTPC, so we'll see what the reliability of these are. My Seagate 200gb is about 5 months old. My Maxtors (like 5) are all between 1 to 3 years old and still going strong

 

[Geomagick]

I voted WD. The drive that i have had the longest is a WD one.

For me it is easier to say which drive is the most unreliable. A while back I had 4 IBM 40GB IDE drives and 3 out of the 4 failed.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

My vote goes to WD, and Quantum. My Quantum and Maxtor drives that are smaller than like 25gb NEVER die and NEVER have ANY issues. Any Maxtor drive I ever got bigger than 40gb has died on me within a year or two. I switched to Western Digitals and haven't looked back. No issues to date with my WD drives.

 

[sestrugen]

western digital for me

 

[Jen]

wd re2 drive for my storage , for operating system i use scsi seagate.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Hitachis are damn good. My 7K250 finally started sputtering recently, thats fewer failures than my 7200.8 =P. But anyways, I think Seagate and WD are pretty damn good. My Raptor has yet to fail =)

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Drives I've had fail:
Hitachi: 3
Western Diigtal: 0
Seagate: 0 (although one I got was completely incompatible with my BC4852)
Maxtor: - (haven't had one is a very long time)

After running 6+ hard drives for a long time, I've come to rely on Western Digital...

 

[imported_ic144]

Dang, I never thought I'd get that many votes for Seagate.

Keep 'em coming!

 

[mathew7]

Just voted for Seagate. I have:
1x160G ATA for about 1 year,
1x160GB SATA since january (almost 1 year),
2x80G 7200.7 from 3-4 years ago, used constantly until the 160G SATA, and one of them still used.
However, the 1st 160GB SATA drive was a total failure (was made in China), but it's replacement (from Singapore, I think) was even better than the ATA I got (according to SMART values).

Oh! And almost forgot: I had a 60G and a 15G Maxtors, a 3GB Seagate drive fallen on concrete which I still used 2 years. I got it on a complete failure of a 3G WD. It's (STs) performance was fine after all bad sectors were found. And before I had a 1.2G and a 500M, both Seagates.