(poll) Who makes the most reliable hard drives

[splice]

I run Maxtor, WD, and Seagate...All are great drives and I've never had one go bad....yet.

I think the Seagate BIV is my new favorite though... really quiet and fast

 

[BFG10K]

Seagate all the way - fast, dead silent and extremely reliable.

 

[CTho9305]

Seagate. My 30 meg (yes, megabytes) seagate is still going strong .

Samsung's suck. Maxtor and quantum haven't failed me, but I haven't had them for as long as the seagate

 

[cutty]

Surprise or not? My selection is the IBM.
Almost all my harddisks are working fine, but I have 3 IBM harddisks and there are more are working for my parents and brother, they are all fine. So I think I should honor them here.

 

[snaf]

Western Digital - mine is working almost a year now stopping only for couple of hours per week. Its 80GB 7200rpm

 

[CubicZirconia]

Maxtor, Seagate, WD...personally I don't think one brand is any more reliable than another. Aside from the recent IBM debacles, it seems that no one brand fails more than any other.

 

[eplebnista]

Maxtor

 

[xenolith]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
Samsung's suck. Maxtor and quantum haven't failed me, but I haven't had them for as long as the seagate

I have a 4 year old 6.4GB Samsung IDE hard drive that has had a single (cashaholic) Windoze 95 install on it for all 4 of those years and it's still going strong.

EDIT:
Although, I did vote for Maxtor simply because I've built many many systems with them and have had no problems.

 

[Maverick2002]

Are we being current? If so, why is Quantum listed? And why is IBM up there? For those 120GXP lovers, you need to read this.

 

[AppleTalking]

The IBM 40GB 60GXP drive in my main rig (purchased before all the problems started) is still going strong after more than a year of hard use . . . *knocks on wood*

Still, I voted for Western Digital. I purchased two dozen of their 20GB drives for a lab about a year and a half ago and not a single one has failed. IMO, both Maxtor and Western Digital have good reputations for reliability - I've got a four year-old Maxtor 10GB 7200rpm drive that's still in excellent shape, albeit at only 15-20 MB/sec

Nick

 

[Belegost]

Over the past 5-6 years I've used Western Digital drives almost exclusively in my own, and my clients' computers, I have had no failures personally, and none of my clients has ever complained about them. I have used a few Maxtors and Seagates in client rigs, and the Seagates also performed flawlessly, out of the four Maxtors I used one did come back dead within a couple months. Not exactly a large sample set, but not something I enjoyed dealing with, bad for my reputation.

 

[PuppettMaster001]

seagate fast reliable quiet and all I have ever owned

 

[Carl Uman]

They all have ups and down. I've drives from all companies listed fail.

 

[SupermanCK]

i use maxtor, wds, and segates before...and i like them all...
only encountered a problem with wds 45giger...haven't had time to try to fix it...got bunch of mp3s on it...and p0rn...heehee
but i like their new special edition 8mb cache drives....had 2 120gb in raid-0 right now...fast as hell...almost always the first to load in while playing Counterstrike

 

[microAmp]

One Maxtor, never had problems, 4 years old.
One IBM 25GXP, no probs. 2-3 yrs. old.
2 WD (20G, 120JB), 20 G never had problems 2-3 yrs. old. 120JB is too new to say, but nothing yet.

 

[neutralizer]

Personally, I have several machines with various hard drives. I had bought a Quantum that I had RMAed 4 or 5 times before I got one that worked. Even so, it ran slow as a slug. That one is still running after 4 years. I have had another Quantum crap of out on me, and 3 Western Digital Caviars crap out, but these crapped out long after the warranty expired so I guess they are pretty reliable. I have a pretty reliable Seagate hdd in another one of my comps, and it is running fine after 3 years. I had a Deskstar 60GXP that crapped out after 8 months, and I don't dare touching another IBM hdd. I also have a Travelstar in my lappy, and all I can say is that it is loud and slow... Right now, I'm using a WD800JB to replace my failed Deskstar, and it seems fine, but I have only been using if for couple of weeks. I had a friend though who had a WD800JB raided that blew up and then the master boot record failed though... And my vote goes to WD for being reliable over the years and very fast.