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Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: 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.
Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: Mitsu on October 29, 2004, 05:17:32 PM: Seagate.
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Post by: beet1e on October 29, 2004, 05:33:09 PM: Maxtor
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Post by: Overlag on October 29, 2004, 05:42:39 PM: maxtor 160gig sata with 8mb cache
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Post by: Nilsen on October 29, 2004, 05:44:09 PM: Seagate or Samsung.
Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: Kaz 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.
Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: TBolt A-10 on October 29, 2004, 05:55:35 PM: Okay, thanks guys.
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Post by: eilif on October 29, 2004, 06:09:58 PM: maxtor stinks, got a 200 gig one and it didnt even work.
Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: Overlag 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
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Post by: JB73 on October 29, 2004, 06:21:15 PM: Seagate

WD close second.

minium 8mb buffer.
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Post by: ccvi 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.
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Post by: MOIL on October 29, 2004, 11:36:12 PM: Get one of these baby's!:aok
(http://www.barovelli.com/comp/mint/oldhdd.jpg)
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Post by: Reschke 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.
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Post by: Max 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
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Post by: eagl 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.
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Post by: Tabasco on October 30, 2004, 11:34:42 AM: I've been working 6.5 years at a place with around 300 desktop computers. The Seagates and Maxtors have been very reliable. Western Digitals have flaked out, but generally after a good two or three years of service. A few new IBM Deskstars have died suddenly in the last couple months.
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Post by: Deth7 on October 30, 2004, 12:40:15 PM: 28Gig Maxtor 5 years now no problems
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Post by: TBolt A-10 on October 30, 2004, 01:03:10 PM: Thanks for all the replies, guys. <>

The PC is an old P2 300MHz that I "loaned" to my brother a couple years ago. Had small hard drives that he's filled up.

I decided the price after rebate on this unit (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=294555&pfp=BRO) couldn't be beat, & I don't have to wait for the UPS guy.

I'm glad I asked, tho. There's a lot of good input here. :aok
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 30, 2004, 01:12:18 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Tabasco
I've been working 6.5 years at a place with around 300 desktop computers. The Seagates and Maxtors have been very reliable. Western Digitals have flaked out, but generally after a good two or three years of service. A few new IBM Deskstars have died suddenly in the last couple months.

What were they symptoms of these WD failiures?
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Post by: Tabasco on October 30, 2004, 01:55:12 PM: Two of the IBM's simply quit. No spinning when powering up, and the BIOS would sometimes see them, sometimes not. Probably a circuit board issue. One had a lot of important data that we sent to a recovery service (data was recovered for a hefty sum). One 120GB Deskstar was DOA.

The WD's always seem to have the same symptoms when they fail, or are about to fail, which is a loud pinging sound by the read/write arm banging around. We've had the other brands do this to, just much less often. I learned a trick when that happens that's worked a few times: put the drive in the freezer for an hour, immediately hook it up as a slave drive and get your important files off of it.

To be fair, the Western Digitals we use have been 20GB or less and used more intensively than the others.
Title: recommend hard drive (quickly), please.
Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 30, 2004, 01:58:22 PM: I had some WD drives crap out on me, I'd usually hear a "click wheeee" type of sound on boot up when the problems started... Sounds similar to your situation..