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Whats the best hard drive to stay on 24/7?

I don't care what anybody says but I'm telling you that 5 RMAs for 75/60GXP drives has left a bad taste in my mouth, and I'm never going to buy another one again. Given I only owned 2 of the drives, and had to RMA them several times each.
 
Originally posted by: ai42
I don't care what anybody says but I'm telling you that 5 RMAs for 75/60GXP drives has left a bad taste in my mouth, and I'm never going to buy another one again. Given I only owned 2 of the drives, and had to RMA them several times each.
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I have bought about 6 drives (some for friends) from IBM in the past three or four years. They weren't all ordered at same time nor were they the exact same size or model. But they all were pretty much junk. After some time of use all you would hear is a cranking sound. I sent one back to IBM but it just did same thing eventually. Even though I haven't bought one since IBM's hard drives are Hitachi, I won't touch another one of their drives for a very long time. I have a few maxtors that I have used for past year and half that work fine. I never let my drives turn off either. But I have had western digital drives that worked fine in past running 24/7.
 
I been running "Western Digital" and "Seagate" for years! Also always on as well being used for low end servers, gaming, audio/video editing, just about anything that could stress them suckers. IBM just blows of late that's all I can say about that so called "Company" ...

--Idoxash
 
I run western digitals in all my computers (and the ones I build for people). These run 24/7 just fine. I have a couple IBM OEM drives (they came in older IBM computers I've repaired/upgraded) and they all have bad sectors.

Even though I haven't bought one since IBM's hard drives are Hitachi
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Can Hitachi do anything computer-wise right? I've had 2 Hitachi Pixie monitors (one 17'' I bought 5 years ago, and it died 2 years ago, and one 15'' that was given to me broken, about 1.5 years old). I do have a 20 year old Hitachi stereo reciever that works great though!
 
Had a couple IBM 60gxps that died right away but have the 100gxp running great. A bad series doesn't mean their new ones are the same. Also had good experiences with quantum/maxtor, WD and seagate. Had a couple fujitsus, one died.

Best thing for 24/7 is scsi raid in a server, thats what they're built for.
 
Originally posted by: Sid59
Originally posted by: markOpoleO
Any HD brand.

Yes even new IBM drives.
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pfft

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Yes, you can be SURE other HD makes will follow suit.

You don't think the decrease in there Warrenty lately are by shear chance do you? They know HD's are a touchy business. That makes perfect sense seeing most IDE HD are not meant to run 24/7. If you want something to depend on, SCSI was made for that reason 😀 This is all imo though.



 
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