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What?s your favorite HDD manufacturer?

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Quantum Bigfoot FTW! Just kidding. Hitachi.
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i have a hitachi...do u? those things are like the loudest thing possible

OP, why do you need to know? if you want to know the best manufacturer, say what you'll be using it for and if temp/sound matters
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: alimoalem
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Quantum Bigfoot FTW! Just kidding. Hitachi.
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i have a hitachi...do u? those things are like the loudest thing possible

OP, why do you need to know? if you want to know the best manufacturer, say what you'll be using it for and if temp/sound matters
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LOL. Funny, I've never heard a single one of my hard drives.. I have 6 right now. I wonder why I can't hear them. 😀
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Did you ever think that your case might attract a hostile alien fleet, possibly thinking it's some kind of interstellar beacon?
 
Originally posted by: mwmorph
Samsung is first choice hitachi 2nd, WD or Maxtor 3rd

reliability for 7200.8 dosent seem too hot.
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200504/20050414ST3400832AS_7.html
more reliable than 9% of drives survyed
7200.9 has insufficent numbers to make a percentage yet on storagereview.com

Even a maxtor diamondmax plus 9 is 55%
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On the other hand, waitin for the results of the reliability survey to "mature" a bit is a good idea.
Every drive that's relatively new will improve it's score over time as "child diseases" and early DOA's become less significant for the whole.

Not saying the 7200.8 will get better than 90% of the drives, just saying it'll probably look better as time goes.
 
I mostly have western digitals, but have a couple of seagates as well. Seagate has the better waranty at the moment and tends to be more quiet, so I'd go with them at the moment.
 
I've bought Seagates because they're quiet, but the two 160GB I have 7200.7's aren't that quiet - compared to the two 40GB 4 year old Barracuda IV's I still have (that still work perfectly fine)

I've only had one drive die on me, and it was a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 160GB - with the crappy 1 year warranty. And of course it died two months after the warranty expired. But other than that I haven't had drives die on me. My old Western Digital got noisy - old WD800BB's so those went into external enclosures kept in a closet.

Still have some old IBM Deathstars (75GXP), unplugged. Not gonna risk putting anything on those.
 
Seagate in general, but i've had to improvise a bib and employ someone to come and change it every three hours because i'm drooling so much over the thought of finally getting a Raptor.
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: mwmorph
Samsung is first choice hitachi 2nd, WD or Maxtor 3rd

reliability for 7200.8 dosent seem too hot.
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200504/20050414ST3400832AS_7.html
more reliable than 9% of drives survyed
7200.9 has insufficent numbers to make a percentage yet on storagereview.com

Even a maxtor diamondmax plus 9 is 55%
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On the other hand, waitin for the results of the reliability survey to "mature" a bit is a good idea.
Every drive that's relatively new will improve it's score over time as "child diseases" and early DOA's become less significant for the whole.

Not saying the 7200.8 will get better than 90% of the drives, just saying it'll probably look better as time goes.
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7200.8 are old. the results have had plenty of time to mature. I shouldve picked up as many of those 7200.7 as i could during BF.
 
So far Western Digital. I'm still using my very first WD drive, 10gb ultra ata100. Very reliable brand.

Avoid Maxtor like the plague. Father bought a Maxtor a year ago, just had a couple nasty crashes recently, and it seems like the read-write head doesn't want to, or can't, leave sector 0. All his data, be it work or pr0n, lost forever and his Maxtor HDD = metallic brick.
 
Avoid Maxtor like the plague. Father bought a Maxtor a year ago, just had a couple nasty crashes recently, and it seems like the read-write head doesn't want to, or can't, leave sector 0. All his data, be it work or pr0n, lost forever and his Maxtor HDD = metallic brick.
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Great another Maxtor bashing post,don't know why people post threads like this really pointless.FYI never had any Maxtor or any HD brand fail yet,had an AMD CPU and Crucial memory fail so should I start bashing them now?
 
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