WHICH IS BETTER?? IBM OR SEAGATE

[IFICUDIWUD]

Im gonna buy a hard drive.. cause my brand new Maxtor died an early death.. What would you reccomend?? seagate barracuda-4 (40g) or ibm 60gpx..also 40 g...and why ... thanks

 

[John]

IBM cuz I said so. Good enuff?

 

[IFICUDIWUD]

I know your not my wife.... you cant say that.. lol .. only she can.. but thanks for the advice... oem comes drive only.. where to get drivers??

 

[pillage2001]

You don't need drivers for harddrives.

 

[pillage2001]

Oh, and go Maxtor.

 

[eyez]

I've never had trouble with IBMs. They have a new line out now.

 

[phas3]

If you were to choose I would pick Seagate, i have one, they are very quiet and sweet

My friend had two ibm 60gxp 40 gb. They both crashed on him.

Also I don't think you need any drivers for oem hard drives. Just need to format them and install the OS.

 

[IFICUDIWUD]

what about for setting up partitions and such.. the maxtor i had came with a floppy and somr bundled monitoring software.. didnt use the disc but did use the floppy

 

[phas3]

You can set up your own partitions through windows. Or use some 3rd party software like Partition Magic.

 

[pillage2001]

Setting up partitions?? DOS fdisk.

 

[Carrot44]

IBM Stay away from the 75GXP Series of drives. Read the Anandtech FAQ's there is an article about them I just lost mine for the same reason.

I replaced both of mine with Seagate drives

 

[pillage2001]

I've got 3 friends with 60GXp and all of them died in 6 months.

Don't get me wrong, I've got more friends in life.

 

[IFICUDIWUD]

seagate i s starting to sound good...any thoughts on seagate vs western dig vs maxtor???

 

[Carrot44]

I have had Several WD and have only lost one and it was under warranty. It just died one day have one thats a 10 gig thats several years old and running strong in a small case with 4 other drives so its got to be hot in there.

As far as Maxtor goes I shy away from them just becouse they are generally the lowest priced But they are probably good drives.

IBM hummmmmmmmm NOT!

Seagate have never tried them before but decided to get two of the 40 gig drives. Got them from Mwave for 94 each.

Ken

 

[pillage2001]

<< I have had Several WD and have only lost one and it was under warranty. It just died one day have one thats a 10 gig thats several years old and running strong in a small case with 4 other drives so its got to be hot in there.

As far as Maxtor goes I shy away from them just becouse they are generally the lowest priced But they are probably good drives.

IBM hummmmmmmmm NOT!

Seagate have never tried them before but decided to get two of the 40 gig drives. Got them from Mwave for 94 each.

Ken >>



Mind you, lower price does not mean lower quality. Quantum was said to be the one that developed the D740x. I've trusted Quantum for years and NEVER one drive went bad on me. My friend got the D740x and it's faster than the 60GXp.

 

[IFICUDIWUD]

Ive got a quantum in whay was my old presario... still runnin in another box... I like it too

 

[Bovinicus]

I had a Quantum Bigfoot a while back. It died before it had it's first birthday. A lot of people told me that line in particular had it's problems. However, Quantum is not bad. My thoughts on the situation with IBM are very similar. Indeed, the 75GXP line has some problems, but the 60GXPs don't have problems anywhere near the scale that the 75GXPs have. Some people are claiming they do, just because they got a bum drive. You can get a bum drive from any company. Anyway, in my opinion, there is no clear winner in the harddisk market right now. There are many viable choices. I still like IBM, but Seagate, Western Digital, and Maxtor also offer harddrives worth considering. Go to www.storagereview.com and check out the drives you are interesting in for yourself.

 

[veryape]

I like the Barracuda line from Seagate, other than that I like Maxtor at the moment, but the crown seems to change every couple of years for some reason.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

i have used IBM hard drives and also segate hard drives and both brands are good.

Currently i have two ibm hard drives in my systems (40Gb 60GXP and a 18Gb 22GXP), and they are going great!

Either brand you will be fine

 

[GT578]

Don't listen to people about harddrives....there are certain models from each manufacturer that sucked or were unreliable........and so far IBM60GXP for me has been great...faster than the 75GXP i had that died on me. Either one is fine and I'd just buy whatever is cheaper.......

 

[ku]

First: Maxtor D740X - because I've had nothing but great experiences with them and I've worked with them for a while.
Second: Seagate Baracuda IV - I own a 80gigger one now and it is QUIET. So quiet, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell if it is going to die or not. Wow, it's quiet. MAN! It's QUIET! BTW, it's quiet... REAL quiet. lol jk. But it is quiet. A nice drive.

 

[slicksilver]

get an IBM........they are the best out there.........my 75gxp works very well without any problems.........been running it for 16 months straight........moreover ibm support is the best you can get

Raj

 

[veryape]

I realize that a lot of you have GXPs that are running just fine, but why would anyone take that risk when they know full well that they are defective a great percentage of the time, and moreover, why in the world would you recommend them armed with that information.

 

[GT578]

I'm only recommending the 60GXP ....not the 75GXP since that model was proven to be defective....although I have 30gig thats still fine despite it being over a year old.......

60GXP is not a defective model like the 75GXP......I'm sure lots of people would agree with me on this....and there will always be people who will disagree....

 

[Pabster]

Seagate.

Some will whine that their IDE drives aren't as "good" as the others, but I've never had one fail. The Barracuda IV's are great. Silent and speedy.

And when it comes to SCSI, Seagate simply stands in a class by itself.