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Most Reliable Hard Drive Brand (Poll)

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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 🙂
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 =)
 
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...
 
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.
 
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