POLL: Who makes the most reliable Hard Drive?

[JoPalm]

Are the Seagate 8MB cache drives good? Right now i'm still using an IBM but I'm gonna need something bigger soon.

 

[Lonyo]

I have an 8.4GB Fujitsu, been running for years, a 37GB IBM been running for 4 years, a WD 600BB been running 18 months and a WD800JB running for 1 year.

Haven't ever had a HDD die on me

 

[LAVAB84615]

i like the wd and seagate drives...

 

[Torghn]

This has been down for a bit. I'd like to get 100 votes on it so fell free to add your imput.

 

[Chaotic42]

Seagate. I've had nothing but *horrible* experiences with Maxtor.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Seagate. My 200gb WD is corrupting, even after formatting. Just like the one that this was the replacement for!!

 

[nick1985]

who the fvck voted for IBM??? are you on crack?



seagate BTW...then maxtor/WD

 

[alzan]

Even though I've used Maxtor, WD and Seagate for my personal machines; I voted for Seagate. They seem to be heartier over the long run. At work, the machines that go out in the field are running DOS 6.22 with Conner (remember them?) 254MB hard drives. They're slow, but they take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

alzan

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by: alzan
Even though I've used Maxtor, WD and Seagate for my personal machines; I voted for Seagate. They seem to be heartier over the long run. At work, the machines that go out in the field are running DOS 6.22 with Conner (remember them?) 254MB hard drives. They're slow, but they take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

alzan

I had an ollllllld macintosh performa 636CD with one of those Coner drives haha. Good times...

 

[StraightPipe]

Originally posted by: Torghn
I would like 2 80gb+ 8mb Cash Hard drives for a raid 0 set up. The maxtors are cheaper, but the Western Digitals have a 3 year warrenty. Makes the choice tough.

I've got that setup, its great.

check out www.storagereview.com

 

[sharkeeper]

I'd say Seagate.

Fujitsu builds 'em like a tank too.

Cheers!

 

[sharkeeper]

who the fvck voted for IBM??? are you on crack?

Probably the same people that think we never landed on the moon.

Cheers!

 

[SilentZero]

I prefer WD.

I have heard alot of good things about seagate also, just never ran one yet.

 

[BFG10K]

I've had the best experience with Seagate - not one of their drivers has ever failed on me. Also they're extremely quiet too.

 

[beatle]

You'll never be able to figure this one out. Everyone has had problems with certain brands of drives, but nothing I know of seems to stick out, aside from the IBM 60GXP/75GXP drives of a few years ago. Good reliability should be based around a company's RMA process. I waited at least a month for both of my 60GXP drives to be replaced. I had a Quantum (bought by Maxtor) hard drive die a few years ago. Since I allowed them to charge my credit card (and then credit it back when they receive the defective drive) they cross-shipped with me, which was in my hands within 3 days. I've never had to use WD's or Seagate's RMA service, so I can't vouch for them. I would hope that Maxtor's policy is similar to Quantum's.

 

[Kharlia]

Western Digital SE (I've never had a problem with it).
Seagate is nice too; just to me; I think Maxtors are snappy. :| Don't really lik'em.

 

[dszd0g]

The most reliable are the Seagate SCSI drives properly cooled.

For IDE, Western Digital SE.

If you put a Seagate SCSI 15K drive and a Western Digital SE in the same system with out any cooling, the WD drive will probably last longer. If you add a hard drive cooler, the Seagate will most likely last longer.

For high speed drives proper cooling has a huge impact on reliability whether it be SCSI or IDE. I think more people cool SCSI 10K and 15K drives properly because it is absolutely necessary for them. Fewer people use drive coolers for IDE drives.

That isn't too say Seagate SCSI drives live forever. Last place I sysadmined enough data to get good numbers we had about 2TB worth of 2-18GB Seagate 7200 and 10K drives, the older drives tended to fail at around 5-6 years. Almost all drives were in constant use. It was very rare for a drive to fail before that age. It was very very rare for a drive to fail while running, it was almost always when an array was turned off and back on or when a drive was taken out and plugged in somewhere else that it failed. We tended to replace drives around the 5-6 mark where they were failing, some we beat some we didn't. I do not know how long the ones we beat would have otherwise lasted. This is out of memory, but I am pretty sure in the archive somewhere I give a better account at the point when I still had access to the reliability data.

 

[jar5tyle]

I like Seagates the best, no problems

I've had a few WD's, they aren't too bad, 2 of them had the "clicking sound" for awhile, but I just installed the patch, and it was fixed

 

[NateSLC]

Originally posted by: Torghn

Originally posted by: sunase
I've bought at least a couple from pretty much all of the above and IBM is the only brand I've used that hasn't died a few times on me yet, and the majority of my drives are from them (employee discount ^^). I was fortunate enough to miss out on the one bad model.

I had several of IBMs bad model and none of them have died on me. The only IBM drive that ever died on me was one of their newer ones. I would probably stick with IBM if there RMA process wasn't such a headace. WD and Maxtor ship the replacement drive first. IBM shpped the replacement drive 2 weeks after I sent mine in.

Argh! How can you both be so lucky? In a sick twist of fate, I read this post yesterday and this morning... scratch scratch scratch... Why is it always three in a row??! I about murdered the cat in a frenzied rage when she was using the litter box....

That makes 3 for 3 now. 1 75GXP and this is the second 60GXP. None lasted much longer than a year.

 

[sharkeeper]

This just happened about 25 mins ago!

40GB 180GXP drive belly up. No surprise, right? Well, the bastard started singing. This was quite entertaining so I recorded it!

Song of Death courtesy HGST.

Luckily no loss, everything was backed up.

Cheers!

 

[likwidkool]

personally I am a Maxtor man, but I think i need to try one of them Seagates. Sounds lik eevryone has done very well with them.

Also I am surprised so many people are behind WD. I have no problems with them, but every computer show I go to, there is always more than a few people who make comments about never ever buying a WD again.

 

[compudog]

I have never sent a Seagate back on RMA. I have had more WD's fail than any other. Of course I have had more WD's as well so naturally.... My next drive will be a Seagate.

 

[pennylane]

My Seagate has been reliable so far and is VERY quiet. I don't think I'd ever get another hard drive.

 

[Torghn]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
This just happened about 25 mins ago! 40GB 180GXP drive belly up. No surprise, right? Well, the bastard started singing. This was quite entertaining so I recorded it! Song of Death courtesy HGST. Luckily no loss, everything was backed up. Cheers!

Wow, that's crazy.