Hard Drives,IBM or Western Digital

[Dave65]

I have had many IBMs go bad I think I have been through 6 in the last year,I get them from Gateway,and when they go bad,they send a new one,but I asked the last time for a different drive instead of IBM,I read in Maximum PC on how there are many people sueing IBM over the failure of there drives,and I mentioned it to the tech guy and he is going to send an 80 gig Western Digital,but I was wondering if they are any better or are they worse.I thought it might be heat,but the last one was kept cool and it failed..
Thanks

 

[Randy]

I can only speak from my personal experience with Western Digital so far I have not had one problem with them. I have on in an old HP pavilion (3.2 gig caviar) and I have a 20 gig 7200 rpm in my main rig at home and a 40 gig 7200 in my rig at work The only hard drive I have had fail on me is a Maxtor 10 gig that came
from Gateway.
Randy

 

[jazztrumpet216]

My past experiences with Maxtor have been limited but not good. My dad's Dell came with a Maxtor 20 Gig in it and it failed in 6 months... they sent back a WD 40 Gig (like the one in my Dell) and it's fine. I use WD 40 Gigs in my other two rigs as well. I even have a WD 540 MEG drive in an old 486 down here that is roughly 7 years old and it's still cookin along nicely as well. My recommendation is WD, though some people swear by Maxtor as well.

 

[RoadWarrior]

The only bad Western digital I've ever had was a full height 40Mb one that was flaky when I got it. Everything more modern that that one I've had from them has performed fast and flawlessly. I've had quantums go bad on me, and I've seen some flaky Maxtors, though not had one personally go on me, and come across a few dead seagates, so in my book WD is the best so far, Seagates second but I've always found them slow, Maxtors 3rd, quantums 4th. Had one older IBM that was a royal *****, not enough to go on I thought, but I wouldn't buy any of thier current line given the stories.

Road Warrior

 

[craigiz1]

No problems with my WD 40Gig 7200. I used it to replace my Maxtor that had an issue with Windows XP, but I kept it as a backup storage drive.

 

[Dave65]

Western Digital it is then,no more IBMS
Thanks guys

 

[BadThad]

I just RMA'd a 60 GB WD 7200 drive that was less than 2 weeks old. I will never buy another WDC drive nor an IBM drive the rest of my life. FYI, WDC bought HDD technology from IBM...their drives are pretty similar...especially with respect to failure, lol.

I replaced the failed WDC 60 gig with an 80 gig Maxtor....ahhhh...I love Maxtor!!! Been running for 2 months now flawlessly!

 

[Cooler666]

the IBM 120GXP series are much faster than the Western digital 80GB and below.

 

[cyber mouse45]

I’ve got three WD drives and I haven’t had a problem yet. One of them is two years old too.

 

[Ridenow]

I personally think that Seagate drives are the most reliable. Where I work I see Maxtors fail almost daily and am not fond of them at all.
This topic is frequently brought up and the consensus is that none of them are as reliable as we would like.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Seagate SCSI drives are generally very reliable, dunno if they put quite the same effort into their IDE models. Possibly the opposite way round with Maxtor. Just since you mentioned "at work" I figured they might be SCSI arrays.

 

[cw823]

Actually I think if you knew who owned Western Digital you wouldn't have any idea which to buy. Compare the two drives next to each other. If you're buying IBM, you're buying IBM. If you're buying Western Digital, you're buying IBM.


Both have good warranties....as long as you have a credit card to give em for express RMA.


I've also had great luck with Maxtor....just ordered a couple of the new ATA-133 drives for a RAID setup.

 

[Cooler666]

I've had many failures with Western Digital drives and so have my friends, i'm not buying one again I rather by IBM or Maxtor (since they bought quantum) or seagate SCSI.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Yeah I wasn't really aware the recent WDs had that, ahem, marginally reliable pixiedust technology or whatever. If thats what their current drives are built with it might be wise to give them a miss. Shame though, I've always liked their caviar drives.

 

[Dave65]

Gosh I guess,it is a hit and miss situation,I guess I will close my eyes and choose one

 

[Wolfmist]

I'll have to post my limited experience. My most recent drive is an 80 gig Maxtor, which I like very much. Only about 2 weeks old though. MY 2 previous hard drives were a 40 gig, and a 27 gig IBM desktar hard drive. Both are still running. My first hard drive is an old 15 gig or so quantum thats still ticking.

Guess I've just been lucky with no failed hard drives for any of my PC hard drives. I had one for an old mac that was a POS. Of course all macs are POS so its not suprising.