Most Reliable Hard Drive That Performs?

[mx]

What hard drives do you guys think are the most reliable and performs well?

I have a Maxtor that I recently replaced in a family members computer that just did last a year.

I'm going to be purchasing two drives for a raid setup in a couple of weeks and I value your opinions.:eh?:

[XprincoX]

I would highly recommend a quantum. And most definitely stay away from WD!! :D

[Shadow ÒÓ]

LOL I'd suggest staying away from Seagate and Quantum...and highly recommend WD.

All depends on who you ask bud......each user has his own experiences with drives. I've RMA'd more Seagate drives than anything...and fewer WD's than any other.

[William]

Stay away from Maxtor.

IBM, Seagate, Quantum, and Western Digital should serve you well.

Personally, the new Seagate Barracuda IVs look really good, but WD has some great priced drives. Just got a WD 80GB 7200 and love it.

[flounder43]

I would take Maxtor over WD...

[Rooster]

prefer wd never had a problem

[Garfield]

I heard that IBM's weren't the way to go. I'm actually in the market for a new hard drive (BTW, is "hard drive" two words, or one word -- "harddrive"?). I'm going to go with WD, I think.

[flounder43]

Can I interest anyone in a couple of top-quality WD paperweights?

BTW, I have a couple more as well...(sorry, no they don't work for anything but making me mad everytime I look at them...)

[Garfield]

Are you serious??? :p

[Shadow ÒÓ]

if they're not bad...I'd be interested. PM me if you're serious.

[flounder43]

Originally posted by Shadow ÒÓ
if they're not bad...I'd be interested. PM me if you're serious.

Oh, they're bad alright, but they hold paper down very well...
I was sort of trying to demonstate my bad luck with these things, they wait for the warranty to expire, then die hard. Sorry to confuse you guys.

[Garfield]

Originally posted by flounder43


Oh, they're bad alright, but they hold paper down very well...
I was sort of trying to demonstate my bad luck with these things, they wait for the warranty to expire, then die hard.

What exactly happened?

[flounder43]

Originally posted by Garfield


What exactly happened?

Both were in computers that I had not used in a while...One for about six months, the other one month. When I tried to fire them up again, they were dead. One of them actually spins up, but is dead otherwise, and the other is a dead as a brick.

Another one that I ripped apart just to see the guts died a similar fate. It was in my drawer with some emails from a couple of years ago on it (I wanted to save them for nostalgia, I guess). When I plugged it in to copy to a much bigger drive, it was dead as well...

I never noticed anything wrong with them, they just died suddenly, without warning.

BTW, I have a Conner 170MB from 1991 that still works great!!!

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I should find a pic of this drive I've got. Takes up an entire 5 1/4" bay and basically the same size of a CD Rom. I think it's 5 megs too!

Took it out of a machine that had dual 5 1/4 floppies.

[Garfield]

If I get a WD, will this happen? That's a lot of money to spend to have a hard drive die like that. It's a pity...:(

[flounder43]

Originally posted by Garfield
If I get a WD, will this happen? That's a lot of money to spend to have a hard drive die like that. It's a pity...:(

It all depends. I don't like WD, but others love them. We just go back and forth about this all of the time, we all have are own experiences...Nobody is right or wrong about this.

I like Maxtor, but some people will tell you that is their last choice...

Nevertheless, the best priced HD's out there right now are probably made by WD and Maxtor. They also probably sell the most drives...

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I believe they all offer a 3 year warranty, and don't worry about the receipt. They honor the warranty by the serial number printed on the drive.

The smart geek always has everything backed up to a removeable source as to not have a nervous breakdown if the drive fails. Course, I've yet to become a smart geek, and have to be hospitalized every friggen time!

Drives fail...no matter which brand you take, you're just as likely to get one to last for ever, or fail soon after, as anyone else here has.

Stay away from the IBM 75GXP for now...they still have issues...the rest is about an equal crap shoot.

[flounder43]

Originally posted by Shadow ÒÓ
I should find a pic of this drive I've got. Takes up an entire 5 1/4" bay and basically the same size of a CD Rom. I think it's 5 megs too!

Took it out of a machine that had dual 5 1/4 floppies.

I remember those old drives, can't think of what they were called... MFM! That's it.

The sad thing is that not too long ago Quantum made those huge 5 1/4" inch full size Bigfoot drives...Man were they the worst.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I still have one of those too..it's a backup drive in the girlfiends computer. 8 giger! bout 4 or 5 years old and was a MONSTER when Compaq gave it to me.

[mx]

Thanks guys, I guess choosing my hard drives is going to be like playing the LOTTO.:D

:burn: :burn:

[SpeeDj]

Firstly flounder, contact WD they have a great RMA, and warranty for almost all of their drives, they have replaced mine in the past no questions asked. Well after confirming that it was indeed bad.

Next when I was working as a computer tech we used to refer to drives like so;

WD, Nice drives good solid performers. Your chevy or ford.

Maxtor, Hot to trot, pushed to the physical limit time and again. Your Ferrari, McLaren

Fujitsu, Wonderful OEM drives, just a step below wd. Your VW Bug.

Quantum, The Bigfoot line need I say more, but seriously if you are buying SCSI they are great. Otherwise avoid them.

Seagate, Another alright OEM drive, again more suited for SCSI.

Just my take, and my observations over the time. I have had a variety of drives go over the years. Avoid ones you know have problems like the plague, like the IBM 75GXP series.

J