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