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Western Digital, Maxtor or Seagate for your next hard drive.

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are current drives just not as well built as older ones? I've been thru 4 drives in the past 7 years (seagate 120mb, fujitsu 1gb , wd 4gb, wd 120gb). The most recent one, the 120gb WD failed in about a year. The other drives made it to the obsolesce graveyard without a problem.

anyway i just RMAed the WD 120GB tonight. XP crashed. The drive just started behaving weird after the crash. Ran datalifeguard and got a "raw read error rate" below threshold.
 
i like both wd and maxtor, i have never used seagate, but i have heard good things about them. i was practitcally maxtor only up untill last month, when i bought my raptor. 5 year warrenty w00t. i have had 1 maxtor fail on me, and maxtor's rma is excellent.
 
Most recently I have had drives from Maxtor and Western Digital. I have used Seagate, but that was SCSI and years ago. Anyhow, I have had no problems with any of them. I'd buy whichever had the capacity I wanted and was the least expensive at the time.

\Dan
 
I'm on my third replacement drive from Maxtor (4 drives total!) but they do have a good, painless RMA procedure. I don't really have much experience with Seagate, but haven't heard anything bad about them. A friend got a Seagate in his computer and it's whisper quiet, so that's a plus.
 
I'm on my third replacement drive from Maxtor (4 drives total!) but they do have a good, painless RMA procedure
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I could care less how the RMA procedure is, if the drive fails it's still a PITA to replace it. And with the capacities they have now it's not feasible to have backups of absolutely everything even with DVD-R discs. I want a drive that won't fail, which is why I stick to Seagate SCSI drives as much as possible. I do have a 120G IDE drive because it was so cheap, but I ran it through a torture test for 2 days straight before I put any real data on it.
 
Definetely Western Digital. I have 2 Caviars on my system for over 2 years and had absolutely no problems with neither one. I also have a Maxtor on another system, and is working fine also. But if I was to buy a new HD, I would go for a special edition (8MB) Caviar.
 
This whole question depends very much on what you expect from a drive. For instance, I still have running Seagate drives from ~7 years ago. Try finding a Maxtor drive from then (they were cheap, and very cheaply made). I hear they're slightly better made now, however as evidenced in this thread people still have problems with them. I use Seagate almost exclusively because of their reputation for quality over quite a long period of time, and many of their newer drives are VERY quiet. Drive sizes and CPU speeds have gotten to the point where I'm now more concerned with how loud it is and how much heat it generates. Both areas Seagate IDE drives do very well in. I'm actually considering VIA for my next computer simply because paying to air condition a room heated by a recent beast from AMD/Intel is not cheap.
 
I am very happy with my 2 x 80Gb WD 8Mb drives which I bought after my last IBM drive bit the dust. I don't really understand why people say WD are noisy drives because these two are practically silent.
 
Out of that list I would have to go with Seagate. I prefer IBM or fujitsu though. The WD 10k rpm IDE drives look interresting, and I wouldn't mind getting a couple (hint hint 😉). I have some WDs and Maxtors in a machine or two and have never had problems with them.
 
I have had a Maxtor 20gb drive for like 5 years now and it never has given me a single problem. I am not sure what these other guys are doing to there HDs to make them fail so much? I have a WD also and no problems yet but I do feel Maxtors are better. Seagate are good I had a Seagate once but long time ago, no problems with that one ether.

Do not wash your HDs ....
 
I guess I've been pretty lucky. My server has 120 gig WD and 120 Maxtor and they've been going strong. It's on 24/7 and files are constantly being moved around on it. I also have a 45 gig IBM and a 30 gig maxtor and both are perfectly fine. My 1.6 gig maxtor from 1996 has some bad sectors though. :Q😉
 
i've had all fail seagate,ibm,maxtor,wd.my seagate fail after 3yrs,maxtor 1yr,wd 6months,ibm 1 1/2 year,but i also had one that has never failed yet and is still in use til this day which was the wd drive thats 6yrs old.I think it's more towards luck of drive you get.although i'm happy with my 120gb maxtor 8mb i just got.it wouldnt surprise me if it broke down on me because already i heard a funny click couple weeks ago during everyday usuage that i've never heard again or before
 
I bought my first 9 gig Maxtor back in 94 or was it 93.... and that sucker is till going in my nephews computer. since then I bought 6 maxtors drives over the years 3 x 30 Gigs 2 x 40 Gigs and 1 80 Gig and all are still working. My 30 Gig secondary drive is at least 5 years old. I wound't hesitate on Maxtor again.
 
wd = hd's seem to fail, but an excellent rma system
seagate = less failure, but rma system sucks @ss
maxtor = not too much experience at all
any ibm = all have failed on me, will never use for mission critical purposes
 
Originally posted by: NicColt
I bought my first 9 gig Maxtor back in 94 or was it 93.... and that sucker is till going in my nephews computer. since then I bought 6 maxtors drives over the years 3 x 30 Gigs 2 x 40 Gigs and 1 80 Gig and all are still working. My 30 Gig secondary drive is at least 5 years old. I wound't hesitate on Maxtor again.
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I didn't know that they made hdd that large back then....not IDE any way.
In 93 I purchased my 500 megs hdd for more than $600.00, therefore I can only imagine the 9GB hdd would cost some where close to $20K. However, the 500megs WD hdd lasted me to 97 when I replace it with a 3.2GB hdd.
 
It is kind of funny this thread was revived. I've been thinking about making a large capacity file server at my house recently. Running out of disk space 🙁
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It is kind of funny this thread was revived. I've been thinking about making a large capacity file server at my house recently. Running out of disk space 🙁
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I was thinking on the same line, last week, because Futureshop.ca at my home town had 120GB Maxtor hdd on sale after rebate for $99 CAD which is about $70 USD.
 
Originally posted by: lowtech
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It is kind of funny this thread was revived. I've been thinking about making a large capacity file server at my house recently. Running out of disk space 🙁
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I was thinking on the same line, last week, because Futureshop.ca at my home town had 120GB Maxtor hdd on sale after rebate for $99 CAD which is about $70 USD.
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Rock on! I'm not at the point where I have looked into prices yet, but next month I might start. Last time I checked, I had about 3gB usable space on my 36gB drive 🙁
 
Seagate or Western Digital NEVER EVER MAXTOR. My high school district already had 20 die in 2 years on brand new P4 machines 😱
 
I'd buy another WESTERN DIGITAL hd if I were concerned about reliability. I still have a 2gb & 6gb WDs running to this very day, that are over 6 years old.
 
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