Who Makes The Best IDE Hard Drive?

[LasombraB]

Topic Says It All.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

Myself, i like the MAxtor Diamondmaxes.

The IBM is the best IDE hard drive, but the compatibility issues, although not IBM's fault, make it less of an option.

 

[LasombraB]

What Compatibility Issues?

 

[Noriaki]

I like the Quantum Fireball Plus LM for it's excellent seek times.
Apperntly it's fairly loud though.

I personally love the IBM 75GXP, and it's what I use, though with this Win9x issue that might not be a great choice....it seems that this issue doens't happen in Windows NT, so when Whistler comes out this guy should be back at the top of the list.

Personally I also very much like Western Digital, though they have a bad rep lately.

I'm going to say overall the IBM 75GXP is the best, but the Maxtor DMax+45 is a good choice to if you use Win9x.

 

[roc919]

My vote to the IBM 75 GXPs, but wasn't there a post about problems with them on winME?

 

[dcdomain]

Might be talking about the raid feature on the Abit board? Not sure. [update]: Whoops... guess not. Never heard about those WinMe/98 problems before...

Anyway, I hold the same view, I personally buy Maxtor because they have been so great recently. Best bang for the buck. To me, the extra money isn't worth it for the performance you get on an IBM drive. If money isn't an issue, get the IBM drives.

 

[LasombraB]

What Is The Problem With The IBM Drives???????

 

[AmdEmAll]

Maxtor DiamondMax

 

[Noriaki]

The 75GXP has an issue where if your CPU is fast enough win9x will shut down the system before the 75gxp has a chance to finish writing all it's cache data out to physical disk, and you can have lost/corrupt data.

There is a patch from Microsoft to fix this.

 

[AmdEmAll]

by the way, where is the poll?

 

[Moving Target]

Maxtor, IBM and WD are the only drives I will buy.

 

[Fumiup]

It wasn't just the IBM drives that are affected. Any hard drive with large caches is affected by it. It only pertained to users of Win98SE/WinME. Microsoft has released a patch for Win98SE/WinME.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Ive only heard the IBM GXP drives were affected. Where did you hear it was all high speed drives?

 

[dmw16]

IBM, no doubt.

 

[Dulanic]

The IBM or Maxtor.... IBM edges out slightly in performance and Maxtor edges out for price/performance.

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

ibm is the best. dont get wd

 

[Fumiup]

I meant large caches. Computers with large caches and fast processors shut down too fast before the cache is flushed so you lose data when shutting down, because the cache of the HDD is not entirely flushed when Windows is turning off the computer

 

[erub]

Own 1 IBM 75GXP, and two Maxtors (27 gig and 8 gig) - both are fine. I have a dead WD on my hands here, well it is so trashed of bad sectors I consider it dead. Don't buy them.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Like everyone else, all I can offer is anecdotal evidence. But
I have dealt with a lot of IDE hard drives over the past couple
of years, and the only ones that have failed are Western Digital.
At this point, I wouldn't recommend WD to anyone.

IBM and Maxtor are both nice. Quantum are fast enough,
but are WAY WAY too loud. No excuse.

For price/performance, Maxtor has been the market leader for the
past year or so...

Kwad

 

[MulLa]

I like the Quantum but I guess I won't see much of them very soon

 

[pillage2001]

IBm and quantum!

 

[LXi]

Quantum, Maxtor and IBM(I dont like them anymore due to negative influences by IBM zealots)

Maxtor is my favorite.

 

[Jaraxal]

IBM invents and patents more new technologies than any other company. They many not kick A$$ on personal computers per se, but their technology rocks. It's hard to argue that.

That being said, you simply can't go wrong with an IBM drive. Seagates aren't that bad either. I have yet to have a problem with the 6 Seagates I have at home, nor the 100+ I use at work.

Don't buy Western Digital? Huh? WD licenses much of their drive technology from IBM and for most purposes are very nearly identical. Heck I still have a couple of 6.4GB WD drives from about 3 years ago that are going strong. And my 18GB WD works just as well as the Seagates I have.

I have very little experience with Quantum or Maxtor.

What you will find though is a whole heck of a lot of brand loyalty. There are those that speak from experience and then there are ZEALOTS. Your best bet is to take your own experiences and meld it with what you read/hear from other people.

My list? IBM, Seagate, Western Digital. I won't buy anything else. But I'm not going to bad mouth the other brands ...

 

[Imported]

I've always had good experience with IBM and their harddrives. Sure, I might have broken the molex pins on my 75GXP, but they replaced it at no charge.

 

[Mem]

IBM & Maxtor in second place.