Author Topic: recommend hard drive (quickly), please. (Read 544 times)

TBolt A-10 · « **on:** October 29, 2004, 05:15:50 PM »

sorry to post this in General, but there's a lot of traffic here.

please tell me which brand of hard drive (parallel ATA) is the best for reliability.

i'm used to using Western Digital, but i'd like to hear your preferences, too.

thanks.

Mitsu · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:17:32 PM »

Seagate.

beet1e · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:33:09 PM »

Maxtor

Overlag · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:42:39 PM »

maxtor 160gig sata with 8mb cache

Nilsen · « **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:44:09 PM »

Seagate or Samsung.

Kaz · « **Reply #5 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:44:43 PM »

Doesn't matter, they all die sooner or later of course YMMV with each brand. I'm currently using WD myself but I'd use any of the top 3 mentioned here.

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:55:35 PM »

Okay, thanks guys.

eilif · « **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2004, 06:09:58 PM »

maxtor stinks, got a 200 gig one and it didnt even work.

Overlag · « **Reply #8 on:** October 29, 2004, 06:19:01 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Kaz
Doesn't matter, they all die sooner or later of course YMMV with each brand. I'm currently using WD myself but I'd use any of the top 3 mentioned here.

i have no dead drives here (touch wood (kaz head)) i even have a 10 year old 800mb Maxtor still running now! lol

JB73 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2004, 06:21:15 PM »

Seagate

WD close second.

minium 8mb buffer.

ccvi · « **Reply #10 on:** October 29, 2004, 07:08:21 PM »

The only harddisk I ever had that died was a 420 MB disk made by WD.

If you need reliability get a raid.

MOIL · « **Reply #11 on:** October 29, 2004, 11:36:12 PM »

Get one of these baby's!:aok

Reschke · « **Reply #12 on:** October 30, 2004, 10:10:49 AM »

Go Seagate...yes I have a maxtor but I couldn't get the Seagate that I wanted that day and I needed the part to get the computer up and running.

Max · « **Reply #13 on:** October 30, 2004, 10:26:21 AM »

I've got a 40 GB Maxtor which is running sharp as a tack after 5 years. Consider Seagate & Maxtor to be like Heinz or Hunts Ketshup...that is unless you're a Del Monte fan

You didn't mention a size either. Unless you store a lot of graphics or MP3 files, a 60 GB should be more than enough. If you've had bad luck in the past, grab a service contract with it.
Best Buy sells Maxtor or WD 80 GB int HD's for $89.99. Cya at the Mall.

DmdMax

eagl · « **Reply #14 on:** October 30, 2004, 10:35:49 AM »

I've had good luck in the long term with western digital drives, but my latest purchase was a segate barracude 7200.7 (ST3200822A) 200 gig drive because the segate barracuda drives are ALMOST as fast and are a lot quieter.

http://www.storagereview.com has a ton of charts you can search through to compare their review results. They have a huge database of almost every drive made in the last several years.