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June 24, 2006 3:20:55 PM

Which is better?

Western Digital 250 gigs 7500 with an 8 meg cache

or

Maxtor 300 gigs 7500 with a 16 meg cache


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June 24, 2006 6:51:51 PM

Well if you're talking the same price it should be obvious 50 more gigs storage, 8 mb more cache, the Maxtor would be my choice.
June 24, 2006 7:07:03 PM

So, in your opinion, both have the same degree of reliability, etc.?
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June 25, 2006 1:03:06 AM

Seagate bought Maxtor, so if that has any bearing on your reliability.

WD is trustworthy. Most of the time, as long as you're not using the hard drive as an anvil, it'll do what it was manufactured to do.
June 25, 2006 1:38:37 AM

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So, in your opinion, both have the same degree of reliability, etc.?


Based on my own experiences, I avoid Maxtor. If I remember right, statistically, WDs are only slightly more reliable.
June 25, 2006 9:12:00 AM

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So, in your opinion, both have the same degree of reliability, etc.?


Based on my own experiences, I avoid Maxtor. If I remember right, statistically, WDs are only slightly more reliable.I have to agree, i have had many problems with Maxtor. Myself, i will never buy another Maxtor, even though they are generally cheaper. I use WD, and have never had any problems. I also have a 250GB Hitachi Deskstar.. for 1-1/2 years now, and trouble free, and Fast. Seagate is in the Process of buying Maxtor, bought i'm sure they haven't implemented any changes as of yet. GL :) 
June 25, 2006 2:24:33 PM

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So, in your opinion, both have the same degree of reliability, etc.?


Based on my own experiences, I avoid Maxtor. If I remember right, statistically, WDs are only slightly more reliable.I have to agree, i have had many problems with Maxtor. Myself, i will never buy another Maxtor, even though they are generally cheaper. I use WD, and have never had any problems. I also have a 250GB Hitachi Deskstar.. for 1-1/2 years now, and trouble free, and Fast. Seagate is in the Process of buying Maxtor, bought i'm sure they haven't implemented any changes as of yet. GL :) 

Yes, Seagate has good stuff. I worked on a project with them about a decade ago and was impressed by their tech people.
June 25, 2006 2:44:26 PM

I've trusted WD hd since my first pc build back in 1997. All of them WD hard drives have been running and no problem whatsoever. Although I haven't had any experience with other brand of hd, but one I can tell is that WD last for a while.
June 25, 2006 3:11:31 PM

I've had Maxtor's in the past that failed. Never had a WD that failed. No matter how much cheaper the Maxtor be, or how much bigger or extra features, that means nothing when it dies an early death.
June 25, 2006 3:52:28 PM

I'm surprised to hear that people have so few problems with WD, as my experiences with them have been problematic, to say the least. Every WD drive I've ever owned has died within 3 years. Every Maxtor drive I've ever owned has died within 4 years. Only drive I own that's older than that is a Seagate, and it's an old 540-meg jobber.

-J
June 25, 2006 5:20:37 PM

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Every WD drive I've ever owned has died within 3 years. Every Maxtor drive I've ever owned has died within 4 years.

-J


You are a HDD killer man! :)  :)  :) 
I'm wondering, what kind of cooling do you have in your case for HDD?
Could be temps that's killing drives?

I have Quantum Fireball 5GB from '98 - still running, Maxtor (I don't like them) 40GB from 2000 (or is it 2001?) - still running, and I recently bought Hitachi 250GB sataII and I'm very pleased with it.

Cheers!
June 25, 2006 5:52:45 PM

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I'm surprised to hear that people have so few problems with WD, as my experiences with them have been problematic, to say the least. Every WD drive I've ever owned has died within 3 years. Every Maxtor drive I've ever owned has died within 4 years. Only drive I own that's older than that is a Seagate, and it's an old 540-meg jobber.


I'd have to dig into the files to find out how old the WD RAID0 array is on my old Power PC Mac, but it's gotta be something like 8 or 9 years, still going strong although a little louder these days.
June 26, 2006 2:43:58 PM

My drives tend to get a lot of use...so I definitely don't get the lifespan that some will get out of their drives. However, I have ensured proper airflow past the drives in every case I ever own (front-mounted 80mm or 120mm fans). I haven't invested in HD coolers, per se, but I am considering the Koolance HD cooler when I finally put water-cooling in my sig rig.

-J
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