Harddrives

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Whats your prefs, maybe even say why..

Western Digital
Seagate
IBM
Pick N pay no name
Maxtor *spit*

[Ruslan74]

I think Western Digital owns Seagate now ( correct me if i am wrong ) but the best drives IMO are WD, their awesome Raptor series are some of the top SATA drives out there.

AFAIK Toshiba also makes HDDs.

[sss]

seagate..... best warranty 5 years... have about 10 of them.. had 1 in my car for about 2 years and it still works

ALL MY WD's have FAILED!!!!!

Maxtor have some serious compatibility and speed issues.. they just dont cut it!

I tested a Samsung the other day... nice and fast... nice and quiet... just dunno if it will last!

[sss]

my raid setup with seagate 7200 drives beats the raid setup with wd raptor 10k drives!

[stoke]

All my maxtor's failed in less than 8 months.
All my Western Digitals forgot how to be master/slaves in 7 months.
All my segates except for one which was partnered with a W/D are still going .. the one is 5 years old.

SEGATE FTW.
It's gotten so bad that I will not touch any other brand.

[TG]

I'd go with Seagates any day.

I've had plenty of WD's that have failed (specially after warranty expires).
Fujitsu aren't too horrible.
Maxtor *spit* *kick* *spit*
IBM - Aren't they just rebranded versions of mainstream drives?

(The drive that just failed in this server was a Maxtor *spit* *kick* *spit*)

[Ruslan74]

i can vouch that IBM is simply rebranded versions of mainstream drives, although they do pass through some form of IBM tests before being approved by IBM themselves.

[sss]

i'm not a fan of toshiba either.. especially their mobile drives are crap!

[Bass]

Have had too much hassle with Seagate - other than the one I have *just* replaced - failed within 10 days - was probably just the bad apple in the batch though (I hope !)

[doobiwan]

IBM drives are now Hitachi btw. They were very good drives until the GXP recall :( Haven't touched one since.

-I'm still running my 5 year old Quantum 40gb (first gen 7200rpm) as my primary OS drive, although it sounds like a dust buster, I've never had an issue with it.
-I've never had issues with Maxtor. Maybe I'm lucky
-WD - I swore off them many years ago because they went through a terrible phase, although the Raptors are EXTREMELY droolworthy
- In my experience - Seagate performance is usually below par, but they're quite quiet, expensive but have decent warranties.

So that probably doesn't help a bit ;)

[stoke]

Yea ... bass is testing segate's mobile drives ... mebbe we should have a distinction for mobile drives.

[sss]

u mean "Haven't" ??

[sss]

my laptop drive is a seagate.. its pretty damn fast!

[doobiwan]

Last time I bought a drive was 3 years ago. Things change . . . ;)

[Bass]

Lol @ Stoke - the only reason it can be classed as "mobile" is from all the trips the PC has done between my house & the supplier ... :(

[stoke]

:oops: ... oh ... I thought that it woz a laptop drive.

[Bass]

Nope - a nice shiny new Seagate SATA II 16 Mb cache, 300 GB HD :D

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Fanks for replies guys, I have my eyes set on a seagate SATA II barracuda, still cooking my budget for the size, hoping for 300GB's or more :)

[sss]

320s are the best price at the moment

[Alluvium]

WD . never failed me, i chucked out one once...

it was an OOOOOOOOLLLD 8 gig really old, i just had enough of it it became a paper, weight not cause it broke, but cause it was just to small in size

[Askari]

My 3 month old Maxtor SATA seems to be on the way out.....what a ballache.

[Darnit696]

I only have Maxtors... mostly cause thats what Sahara Stock... the prices are good and until this week I never had a problem with any of them. But within a few days my 300gig packed up and Dukeys 200 gig carved dirt. No problem with warranty just swopped out but its a pain in the backside moving all the gigs around.

IMHO Seagate are the Rolls Royce of drives... like Rolls they are pricey... I think you in the end you weigh up your need to store junk vs the value of your data. I would aquire a Seagate if I was going to use it for valuable data and Maxtors for the collecting of junk data...

[sss]

but seagate arent expensive!!

[stoke]

It's prolly hexpensive to Darnit cos he cannot buy segate from Sahara ...
You've gotta try to remember that Darnit lives like in another country and timeline :p:p:p.

[sss]

dem ppl in cow country!!!!

[fivel]

Check out these specials....what do you think?

http://www.cyberdyne.co.za/promo/index.html

[Ruslan74]

:woot: 250GB for R758? not bad... around an odd R180 cheaper than the rest....

[doobiwan]

@SSS Where do you get your seagates from? DCC?

The best I can do is R549 for a 160Gb SATA I 8mb, as oppossed to R479 for the equivalent SATA-II Maxtor. Although the Seagates got a 5 year warranty.

EDIT:
@Useless:
Maxtor 250Gb SATA-II is R712.5 from Sahara
Seagate R740 from Eurobyte
Hitachi R648 from Eurobyte.

Speaking of which, anyone had any experience with the Hitachi's?

[sss]

i get mine from rectron