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computer_kid1
10-15-2005, 04:57 PM
What make is the best?
What are their advantages and disadvantages?

Western Digital?
Seagate?
Sterling_Aug
10-15-2005, 06:45 PM
Western Digital is my favorite for price/performance balance.

Maxtor is my least favorite for drive crashes and noisy drives right behind Quantum for the same problems.

IBM is the most expensive and the most reliable.
Midknyte
10-15-2005, 07:26 PM
www.storagereview.com

It's pretty much a toss up right now. I've seen drives die from each vendor, so nobody is perfect. Seagate has 5 year warranties, though.
JacksterMan
10-15-2005, 07:55 PM
Don't buy a Hitachi or IBM drive!!!

They are infamous for their "Deathstar" Hard Drives:
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/

This is only a small report of it, I'm sure someone has a link to other pages. There was this one page with hundreds of dead IBM drive reports on it in the forum discussion. Does anyone have the link?
Sterling_Aug
10-15-2005, 10:46 PM
IBM does not sell the Deathstar anymore.
Midknyte
10-15-2005, 11:10 PM
Hitachi are some of the fastest drives on the market now. Deathstar is old news. Maxtor and WD also had bad batches of drives before.
Bigjakkstaffa
10-16-2005, 08:49 AM
IBM/Hitachi are more or less bullet proof in terms of reliability and speed and are my preferred choice. I have recently dabbled with Maxtor though as they offer some of the quickeest drives going and thus far i have no complaints. FInally, when buildign for other people i tend to go with Seagate because i have had plenty of good past experience with them and the warranty is simply brilliant.

--Jakk:t
G
10-16-2005, 05:08 PM
All I buy are SCSI, P-ATA and S-ATA Maxtor HDDs and no failure on mine or client machines.

Try the DiamondMax 10 SATA from Maxtor - I have 4 of them and they are inaudible and first-rate.

http://tinyurl.com/bxrfh
computer_kid1
10-16-2005, 05:58 PM
All I buy are SCSI, P-ATA and S-ATA Maxtor HDDs and no failure on mine or client machines.

Try the DiamondMax 10 SATA from Maxtor - I have 4 of them and they are inaudible and first-rate.

http://tinyurl.com/bxrfh

Thanks G!

I have just ordered one of these;
here (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=12027096235&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=89525)
pandaz3
10-16-2005, 06:17 PM
I have two working 40 gig IBM Deathstars going for four and a half years each and no problems, I buy mostly Seagate as they really seem to do more research before releasing a new model ( That and I used to live near one of their facilities) I also have several Maxtors. I do have a surviving Western Digital, but had two WD's fail a good long time ago (1.6 and 4.0 Gig models)

My local store handles only WD and Seagate so I buy Seagate usually.

I would buy Hitachi (IBM) or Samsung with out fear ..... Maxtor has been good to me but I have hated their software utilities. I think they have improved them though. They are good drives.
G
10-17-2005, 06:58 AM
Nice choice.

Ebuyer.com and Microdirect.co.uk (check out the specil offers page) are two places I use. Ebuyer.com mostly.

With HDD storage, internal or external, now cheaper and with larger capacities, there really is no excuse for uses to run out of backup space or not to have implemented solution backup - both passive (imaging) and active (backup program like Genie Backup Manager, etc).

Data lost and data recovery would be significantly reduced if users would just do the above.