Seagate or IBM Hard Drive

[dmw16]

Im trying to decide whether I want a 20.4GB 7200RPM ATA/66 Seagate Barracuda or a 15GB 7200RPM ATA/100 IBM 75GXP. I am really torn between the 2 of them. I love my old IBM drive, but I have also heard great things about Seagate. So what do you all think?
thanks,
-doug

 

[oldfart]

IBM

 

[heng1028]

IBM here

just get my new 75GXP running

just a silly problem wasted my whole evening

but i can see the difference of 75gxp and 34gxp

quieter and faster

Highly recommended

 

[Sunner]

IMO Seagate make great SCSI drives, but their IDE drives are of alot lower quality.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

IBM, known for good quality and my personal experience with the RMA department could not have been better...my drive was making more noise than I thought it should so I called, I was on hold for less than a minute, literally, and they sent me a new drive

 

[xyyz]

I have 3 Segate IDE drives, 3 Segate SCSI drives, and 3 IBM IDE Drives... I prefer the IBM drives... they don't make nearly as much noise. I've had to send each Segate IDE drive back for replacement because after a year they became defective.

Segate aren't bad at all... don't get me wrong... but if you have the choice... go for IBM drives.

 

[Binary]

oldfart, heng1028, Sunner, Sir Fredrick and xyyz have pointed you in the right direction, follow it, IBM all the way

 

[damocles]

My 3 week old Seagate Drive just died on me. I know this could happen to any drive, but it makes me suggest IBM

 

[borealiss]

either's good. i'd get ibm for eide, seagate for scsi.

 

[gtd2000]

Well I've been using a Seagate 6.4GB 7200rpm for the last 2.5 years and thought it was very good, however i have now just installed an IBM 30.7GB 7200rpm and wow - I say go IBM so quiet and smooth - booting up sounds like standby mode with the Seagate.
Actually both have been fine for me but now that I know...I'd choose IBM next time too (so far...)

 

[AMB]

I, personally, would go with a Maxtor drive

 

[Oyeve]

hehehehe....Maxtor. Good one. Anyway, that is a tough question. I have many seagate and IBM drives and both are superior to all other brands. I guess money would be the decision maker for me. Whichever of the two are cheaper I would go with that one, being both brands are excellent.

 

[Mem]

IBM is your best bet of the two.

 

[DaddyG]

The SCSI Seagate Cudas were the absolute best. EMC used em in all their systems and smacked IBM pretty bad. Seagate quality on their IDE drives went down the crapper, haven't tried any in a while.

 

[Dulanic]

<< hehehehe....Maxtor. Good one. Anyway, that is a tough question. I have many seagate and IBM drives and both are superior to all other brands. I guess money would be the decision maker for me. Whichever of the two are cheaper I would go with that one, being both brands are excellent. >>



I wouldnt put down Maxtor so quick man. Maxtor is starting to get more recongition around here for their extremelly good customer service and their drives are very fast and a great price.

 

[Rookie2000]

No one has mentioned Western Digital.
What about the new 7200rpm drives with 9ms access and 2-meg buffer?
Are they any good?
I haven't bought a HDD in a couple of years, but had very good experience when I was using them.
Service was execellent then. Now?

Because of the satisfaction, I naturally lean towards WD. But I know things change fast. I like what I've seen and read on the IBM GXPs, and am leaning towards the 45-meg. But still wonder about the WD?
Any comments?

And thanks.

 

[Oyeve]

&quot;extremelly good customer service&quot;

You have to ask why their customer service is so good. Compaq has excellent customer service also but I wouldnt recommend any Compaq product except the ipaq pocket pc. I've noticed that the companies and products with super excellent customer service are usualy the products that have to be returned quite frequently. They NEED great customer service! I've seen a very high failure rate at work with maxtor drives. Something like 6 out of ten systems with a maxtor drive needs to have the drive replaced within 1 month. Thats too high a failure rate. And I am not talking about 10 systems, I mean 100s. I beleive you get what you pay for.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

Well I have had both brands, the Seagate is nice and is a little slower, but I would go with the IBM, I have the 75GXP, and it is pretty quite, and fast. They make their Platters better then most any other HD manufacturer.

 

[Rigoletto]

I only remember for their bad IDE reviews Seagate. I had a seagate drive for my Amiga and it made irregular noises. They seem to be occupying the low performance end with IDE, and not saving much money on &quot;really&quot; good drives IMO.

 

[miniMUNCH]

Just put together a new system last night with a 45GB 75XP. I used to have a 10GB WD. Wow! Big difference! And man is the IBM quiet...I was wondering if drive was even working while it was going through format and install AND I had the case open! How's that for quiet?!

And fast?! Don't get me started! The drives seems as fast as a year old Seagate UW SCSI drive I have on another system.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

IBM!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah baby!!!

 

[Carl Uman]

IBM. I've used 10+ IBM drives and only once had a problem. Could have RMAed it but didn't mess with it as it was a smaller dirve.

 

[xyyz]

I love WD drives... i still have a 1.2gig that I bought in '93 or something... and it's still runnin

WD is starting to use IBM technology... supposedly on some models the two are almost identical.

 

[damocles]

I also wouldnt disgard Maxtor so easily. We use them as our HD of choice at work because we find them cheap and reliable (yes reliable) and I am talking about several hundred Pcs.

 

[Drifter]

I have the Seagate Barracuda 30.6 gig ATA II .Have to say i'm very happy with it.I seen a review in ZDnet between the Seagate 30.6 gig and the DESKSTAR 07N5640 75GXP 45GB IDE ATA,the Seagate came out on top for it's speed. As for the noise between the two the IBM is better.I got two fans running on the case which makes more noise then my harddrive. Over all I didn't find this drive being noisy as people claim. You can't go wrong with either of them there both good drives.