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What?s your favorite HDD manufacturer?

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You can't bash hard drives they all have their ups and downs. I remember 5-6 years back seagates where built into cheap e-machines and died all the time.

A few years back Deskstars where sitting on top of the world, then suddenly they started arriving DOA and they fell from the ranks as top then.

Right when the WD Caviar line came out they where the baddest rave around and I had two of them fail on me one behind another and I saw them crap all the time for others too.

Fujistu had a rave as well around 5-6 years back but that seemed short lived as well.

No, the truth is hardware failure is inevitable, I guess you could just say some of us have just walked past the bad for many years while others never seem to escape it.

But there is one thing I can guarantee and this is I know. I have beat the hell out of 5 generations of hard drives harder then anyone around here and with no failures in 6 years on such abuse and with that success that just keeps where I'm at and still using the same brand.

So when that day comes if it does and I start getting bad failures too, then I'll look at something else. 😉
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
Originally posted by: Sunner
Prefer Seagate, mostly because of their 5 year waranty.
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Maxtor Maxline III has a 5 year warranty and the 16mb 300GB SATA is the best value in this range.

I'm on my 5th generation of Maxtors, 6 years running now and I have never had a problem with one of them yet.

Running now 2 of the Maxtor Maxline 300 SATA 16mb, installed XP from format to desktop in 17mins. 😉
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I ordered a Maxline 3, it came DOA.
I sent it back
I ordered another Maxline 3, it came DOA.
I sent it back for a refund.

How is that for quality?

WDSE16 is better

 
So I had 2 WD Caviar die on me back to back when they first came out, how's that for quality too?

I haven't looked at a WD lately, but when they came out, they felt like tin cans in your hand, as in real light feeling cheap and you could tell the metal used to build them was cheap quality.

Maxtors have always been heavy and built with very solid materials to handle shock in case of dropping them, not to say others aren't. I'm just comparing this to WD is all. Maxtors are built and feel like mini tanks, solid and not to heavy either.

You can't judge a whole company around 2 dead hard drives. I'm not denying that there are many failure rates out there, because there are. But at some point or another every manufacturer has had failures, no one is exempt.

All hard drives can and will fail and have.....


ALOHA
 
Personaly I have mostly WDs just cause I've gotten the best price per gb on them and they've been fairly reliable (have 1 250 gb fail recently it was my backup drive in an external enclosure) I have a fair number of Maxtors but just based on recent evidence I'd stay away from them (friend of mine has had 4 dm9s fail recently in a row and only 1 was a replacment) this is all for desktop drives, for 2.5" laptop drives HGST is king I'll take a Hitachi drive any day of the week I had a 30GB 75GXP fail but had plenty of 60GXPs that worked fine had good luck w/ the D740XL's from maxtor (realy a quantam drive in disquise) and I had a 100GB WD SE drive fail (was realy a friends drive he just sold me the warenty replacment which was new and still works fine) still have some seagate 7200.7's and .8's in service that all still work fine.
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
You can't bash hard drives they all have their ups and downs. I remember 5-6 years back seagates where built into cheap e-machines and died all the time.

A few years back Deskstars where sitting on top of the world, then suddenly they started arriving DOA and they fell from the ranks as top then.

Right when the WD Caviar line came out they where the baddest rave around and I had two of them fail on me one behind another and I saw them crap all the time for others too.

Fujistu had a rave as well around 5-6 years back but that seemed short lived as well.

No, the truth is hardware failure is inevitable, I guess you could just say some of us have just walked past the bad for many years while others never seem to escape it.

But there is one thing I can guarantee and this is I know. I have beat the hell out of 5 generations of hard drives harder then anyone around here and with no failures in 6 years on such abuse and with that success that just keeps where I'm at and still using the same brand.

So when that day comes if it does and I start getting bad failures too, then I'll look at something else. 😉
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See the thing is...all manufacturers have had rough spots. WD had a series of bad Caviar drives. IBM were awesome and #1 until the DeathStar. Seagate had problems.

The only company that doesn't follow this is Maxtor. They have always had problems and still do.

They are the most failure-prone based on data I've collected from a large number of machines.

They are also the HOTTEST running drives ever. I've never had a hard drive run hotter than a lot of Maxtors...though I don't know about the new MaxLine III ones, but I'm sure I'll start seeing some dead ones coming into my shop soon enough.

I have had them run virus scans and when they are done with the disk they cannot be touched because they are so hot.

Oh and as for all hard drives failing....I have a few MFM drives at the shop that still work great. Not that they get used anymore but they work.
 
OdiN I just ran a virus scan and the disk was hardly what you would call hot, mildly warm would be a better definition. I'm running two of the 7L300S0 Maxline III drives.

What drives do you like?

ALOHA


P.S. I guess for 6 years running strong, I've been one LUCKY bastard! 😉
 
P.S. I guess for 6 years running strong, I've been one LUCKY bastard!
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Hehe I have running HDs from different brands for about hmm 11 years now,oldest HD I have got still in use is an IBM which is 8 years old followed by a maxtor that is 4 years old.

PC hardware will fail,people have to relize no brand is perfect,in the end it is pot luck no matter what you say.
 
Yeah mine too, I was so impressed I bought another, so running 2 now. Oh I love ALL that hdd space now!

600 gigs for $260, hehe 😉
 
All I know, is that after a 160gb Seagate 7200.9 wasn't compatible with my RAID controller, I will never order Seagate again. So Seagate and Maxtor are out of the question for me. I currently have 7 Hitachi's with no problems.
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
OdiN I just ran a virus scan and the disk was hardly what you would call hot, mildly warm would be a better definition. I'm running two of the 7L300S0 Maxline III drives.

What drives do you like?

ALOHA


P.S. I guess for 6 years running strong, I've been one LUCKY bastard! 😉
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Currently I prefer WD and Seagate. I have 10 WD hard drives at the moment. 2 74GB Raptors, 2 WD1200JD, 1 WD1200JB, 2 WD2000JB, 1 WD2500JB, 2 WD3000JD


As I said I don't know about the MaxLine III drives as I have not had any in to work on yet being that they are so new. But most of the other ones 1-2 years old run very hot, excluding their little slimline ones.


I service probably about 400-500 PC's from various brands each year includin custom built rigs and HP/Compaq/Sony/Dell/SystemMax/Micron/Gateway, etc. I can stack up all of the bad hard drives that have come though my shop and the Maxtor pile will be at least twice as high as any other brand. It has been this way the last 7 years I have been doing this. That is why I would never put a Maxtor in my own machine and I won't sell or recommend something I wouldn't use in my machine myself.



12/06 EDIT:

Guess what happened today at work? I replaced another dead Maxtor and one of my other techs replaced a dead one too.
 
(I dont care how stale this bump is)

WD, samsung and then Seagate.

I've had a WD160 and Raptor for over 2 years of hard use and they havent failed(knocks on wood, I know the score and I don't put that much faith in WD). I bought a Seagate acouple years ago, it was DOA, replaced and had it work for about 6months then another RMA. Seagate has supposedly improved lately, unlike Maxtor..

Maxtor used to be reliable and I have a very old 10gig somewhere that still works, however I've bought 5 Maxtors from 20-160gig with a 100% failure rate, 3 of them broke quickly enough that I could RMA them and I use them lightly as backup drives. All my Maxtor failures were "Chirp of death" and this is due to the garbage bearings or weak actuator in them.

If you own a Maxtor and it still works, thats because you havent hit its life cutoff of 1000hours. Funny thing is I have a mac smurftower with a 5 year old 60 gig Deathstar still alive and well in it.
 
Maxtor is junk IMO.

Before my current HDD, I ordered a Maxline 3 from Newegg. When I put the HDD in, the BIOS detected it but Windows XP did not want to install on it, after about 5 installation tryes the HDD started chirping and the BIOS would not detect it. I sent it back for an RMA replacement, I received the second Maxline 3 and it worked fine for about 30 minutes then it started to freeze and chirp. After 1 month of the headache and after I RMA'd the second Maxdie 3 I then settled on my current HDD.

Thats 2 brand new HDD's from Maxtor DOA, I will never in my life buy another AWFULL POS like Maxtor again.
 
Seagate rocks.

Once my HD got busted, so I sent it in for warranty. Only 4 working days after my box arrived at their location, I already had a replacement HD in my hands! I didn't even know they were done processing the warranty!

 
Seagate has been rock solid for me so I voted for them. However I really want to get some Raptor drives now that I know just how fast they are.
 
I like WD and Seagate the best. I am running an Hitachi Travelstar 7200 RPM drive in my notebooks, works great.

I once received 2 DOA Maxtors in a row. I will never again buy Maxtor.
 
Anyone who voted for Maxtor obviously hasn't had a maxtor drive in the last 2 or so years.

Seagate and WD are about tied at this point in time for me. I voted Seagate though for their warranty and customer service.
 
I use Western Digital and Maxtor.
I have never had any issues with Maxtor and I'm un-sure as to why they have such a bad rep.

I've owned 3/4 in the past. Currently am still using a newer Maxtor SATA 300GB (got it free by the way, mate had one spare and just gave it to me, sealed and all!) one along with my Western Digital 3200KS.
 
I'm a fan of WD, they're excellent all around.
However, Hitichi drives are very quiet, I have one in an Apple iBook G4 and you can't ever hear it. Fujitsu and Toshiba make some nice, fast UltraSCSI drives that are going to have a home in my next rig.
 
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