Need some HDD recommendations (NO WD RAPTORS!!!)

[gyrene81]

Wish I had your luck Tequilachaser...as it is (as MrRipley pointed out) since IBM sold the rights to their hard drive line...the deathstar has been a dawg...at least in a business environment...(which reminds me, I should check the make on the last 4 450GB SCSI san drives I've had to replace   )

I guess we're all agreed the Samsungs are dumpster fillers too...hehehe

[TequilaChaser]

Wish I had your luck Tequilachaser...

please don't voice it 

now watch em all go tits up and make me eat my own words......( found that wood chair  I needed to knock on btw..... )

was thinking of getting a WD raptor for future use, until I saw

Raptors have a higher than normal failure rate among hard drives.

is just hard to pick any PC part anymore with out reading pages and pages of reviews...and then it's still a gamble, having ordered a new part from newegg just to have it be DOA when it arrived........then doing RMA and etc.....

guess we all got our preferences ........ I'll stay with my unfavored hitachi HD's until I have a problem out of em......

so noone mentioned fujitsu drives.... anyone care to comment on that brand?

[Delirium]

I agree with you on the Raptor drives, I've had 4 of them die on me just this decade alone.

[RTHolmes]

so noone mentioned fujitsu drives.... anyone care to comment on that brand?

started using fujitsu drives years ago for upgrading laptops, decent specs and very low power requirements compared to others. never had problems with them so have been using them in desktops too, again with no major problems

[Skuzzy]

Truth of the matter is, no matter what HD you chose, it could die on you in a day.  As far as SATA drives go, I consider them all commodity product not to be used for data which holds any importance for you.

All my data files are stored on a SCSI based file server at home.  I use the SATA drives to hold all nonvolatile data, such as the OS, and Programs.

I have suffered failures of every brand of IDE/SATA drive ever put on the market.  One of my SCSI drives in my file server is now 15 years old and still running (24x7) like a champ.  I'll swap it out this year, just because it is a high risk for failure.

Now, I absolutely do not like a couple of companies at all.  Hitachi as all their drives are based on the old IBM Deathstar technology.  WD is the other company I do not like.  Their roots are based in the Tandon drives.  The best hit-n-miss drives ever made.  Inconsistency was Tandon's strength and from what I gather WD is still doing that proud.  WD has always excelled at commodity, but not so much in quality.

[gyrene81]

LOL...any of you guys ever see Western Digital's old assembly plant in S.D.??? If you ever did, you would have never bought a WD drive...I used to drive by it every day to and from work. People would stand outside in their white coveralls and hair caps to smoke. Aside from the "industry standard" failure rate at the time, if you did a sector test of their hard drives, you would find somewhere near 10% of the drive had bad sectors on it...  (that was back when the 250MB hard disk was considered big).

Still I've had a lot of luck with them...1 failure in the past 10 years and that was on an old 40GB IDE.

Anyone remember the old Micropolis drives? Talk about dumpster fillers...holy cow, I don't remember a single drive lasting more than 2 yrs max.

As for the Fuji drives...I think they're dumpster fillers too...kinda hit and miss on them. Didn't Fujitsu at one point make "deathstar" based hard drives? I could have sworn IBM gave them licensing rights to their hard drive technology...been wrong before.

[Reschke]

Well I just ran out and picked up a Seagate 1TB AS series drive just to get my new build up and running. I should have it completed by the end of the day...as long as work that pays the bills doesn't interfere...