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Opinion What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? Got two Western Digital drives, exactly the same model (WD10EADS-00L5B1) Both have bad sectors, and I have them since February '09. Found out on google that a lot of WD's nowadays are unstable, and that this model has a lot of problems, especially for bad sectors. I got 3 WD raptors 74GB though, running fine 1 for some years, another two 1,5 years. Got a Samsung also running for 1,5 years now, a Maxtor for 2 years, another maxtor for 5 years.. I think...
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Since you did not specify IDE, ATA, SATA or SCSI. No comparison on speed. 3200, 3500, 3600, 3700, 4200, 4500, 5400, 7200, or 10k rpm etc. I picked the maxtor since I'm using one in my system. The Maxtor's Atlas 10K IV has an incredible read write speed.
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for a longer life i choose seagate, my 5 year old 1.9 gig reformated hundred times and been burnt one time, is still alive and kicking
QUOTE (bryandel @ Dec 28 2004, 02:55 PM) I want to see which brand is more reliable in handling data, longer life and fastest access time.  I voted for Maxtor. I had a six year old 6 gig drive, and its been reformatted lots of times, since I tried lots of linux distros and reformatted Win98 almost every 6 months. It was reliable enough for me, I can't recall any major loss. As for access time, I think that all depends on the type and speed of the drive itself. Hope that helped!
I have used Western Digital and haven't had any problems. I think you'll find that people stick with what they know and trust. As well there are things like the age of the drive and what it going to be used for to take into consideration.
I used to use Maxtors all the time, but they seem to go bad after 5 years in my experience. Western Digital is normally what I use. All but one of my Western Digital drives I've ever owned still works. I've heard great things about IBM Deskstar drives, and I'll be giving one a try in my Macintosh when I get a bigger hard drive for it.
Only harddisk that has broken in my use was Seagate.
Currently I have three samsung drives in use and have had no problems. When I bought my first Samsung I had consern it to be noisy, they were generally concerned that, but in practise I did not notice any difference to other drives. I've had a very same drive in active use for several years now and it's working like charm. Because of the good experience and Samsung's rather customer friendly pricing policy, my next drive and drive after that was Samsung too. Yep, the Koreans definately know what they are doing.
I dont know about all of the cryterea together because I have had either a fast hard drive with short life or a slow one with long life. I have an old seagate that is horibly slow and noisy but it has been steadily pumping out reliable data for about 7 years. on the other hand I have had Maxtors with blazing speed and had to return sevral of them under warinty for replacement. My last one died about 2 months out of warinty. I have now switched to Hitache/IBM. I havn't had it long enough to say anything about durability, but it is defanatly fast and quiet.
I got one Seagate which has lasted for over an year and has some bad sectors i guess.. The performance has dropped pretty much.
Recently, a month back I purchased Samsung because they are giving 5 Years Warranty. Now who the hell would ignore that 
Actually i'm joining the topic to see waht's the best.. cause my maxtor failed badly...
and i have read in other topics in this forums that maxtor is not so good as u might think Latest Entries
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What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? Got two Western Digital drives, exactly the same model (WD10EADS-00L5B1) Both have bad sectors, and I have them since February '09. Found out on google that a lot of WD's nowadays are unstable, and that this model has a lot of problems, especially for bad sectors. I got 3 WD raptors 74GB though, running fine 1 for some years, another two 1,5 years. Got a Samsung also running for 1,5 years now, a Maxtor for 2 years, another maxtor for 5 years.. I think I would go for Maxtor. I'm quite done with WD, unless they are more expensive and longer running models like the Raptors, instead of those cheap models that aren't fabricated anymore after a few months.. -reply by b-ry
NOTHING IS STABLE
What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? Everything is cheap today day, cheap industry worldwide, all the HDD are poop from China. I used all the brands for over 25 years on IT and even Fujitsu fail. Do backups of your stuff in disks cd/dvd but also the disks have a limited life in number of years, storage medium can accelerate the damage on the shinny face of one blank media like humidity, so if you have some important stuff like the pictures or video of your kids born you have to renew your backups every few years.
Western Digital 120GB IDE WD1200JB High End ATA-100 7200 rpm
What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? Purchased this WD HD in August of 2005 - unrecoverable sector manifested itself after a BSOD about a year later. Unfit to use as OS drive I used it as a OS backup slave since then. On my return from a trip to Singapore this dude must have gone asleep forever. On startup I received the famous reminder that BIOS unable to load because of no drive attached... Everybody in this biz knows what that stands for, bad controller, bad cable, drive ko. A dealer checkup confirmed the latter. With three months out of warranty, I have decided to drill four holes into the WD 1200JB before deposing it, and to replace with one of the brands that stand for quality, reliability and longevity. I am running two PC's side-by-side. The nature of my work requires 24/5 top performance and a stable operating environment.
Hope this info helps those who are still seeking. layaguara
I have a Hitachi hard drive (used to be IBM's hard drive division) as my main drive with a Seagate enterprise-grade hard drive as my data drive. My Macbook has a Seagate drive built into the system.
I am currently using 2 X 500GB Seagate hard disks on my new computer. My old Seagate 120GB hard disk on another older computer, approximately 5 years old, did suffer some bad sectors not because it was bad quality, but that it has been heavily used in its life (e.g. moving large files, installing and uninstalling programs a lot when testing software). I personally think Seagate hard disks are more reliable, but it is obvious that hard disks will fail over time and it just depends when it happens.
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