What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? - Who has longer life?

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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.
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What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? - Who has longer life?

bryandel
I want to see which SATA harddisk brand is more reliable in handling data, longer life and fastest access time.

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NilsC
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. smile.gif

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r3d
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 biggrin.gif

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Phil
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.
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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!

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coder2000
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.

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the empty calorie
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.

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Hercco
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.

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ouachiski
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.

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OpaQue
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 tongue.gif

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rapco
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

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xboxrulz
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.

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Atomic0
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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jay
seagate

of course...

mine is almost 10 yrs now without a bad sector and still running. laugh.gif

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geo
did anyone has a bad experience with Western Digital, cause mine crashed after only three months.. mad.gif

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darkken
I just had a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 120gb SATA drive die on me. I read up on the forums that the diamondmax 9 series had the common occurrence of the controller on the drive failing. It was a horrible sound when I was playing Oblivion and the hard drive makes a wrenching sound and then goes silent. I waited for the game to crash and sure enough it did. Lost all my data on the drive; luckily being a IT professional I always make backups but I didn't have my latest save files backed up yet. So I now have a Western Digital...lets see how it does.

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