Even the 20 mb Western Digital SCSI harddisk in my Commodore A590 still works like a charm

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.

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

seagate

of course...

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

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.

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.