POLL - BEST Hard Drive Manufacturer? :ctrlaltdelpc:

The only drive I don't like is Maxtor.
The WD Raptor is awesome.
I don't know enough about Fujitsu and Samsung.
Seagate needs to work a little harder to get back on top.

If i could vote twice id go Seagate nad WD but went with WD cause i have more of them without fail.

Haha Fireballs... ive still got 2 that work... They are AWESOME

Seagate... thats why they are #1

Western Digital or Seagate.

over here, seagate is usually 5€ more expensive than WD
but Seagate has a 5 year waranty...

IMO Seagate wins

and why hasn't this vote bug been fixed yet? (not being able to see your results)

Seagate hands down for me. Only company of all my drives that hasn't died yet, Have around 5 seagate drives, two of them are 6 years old in a raid 0, still purring along. So far half of my WD drives have died. You can't beat seagate's warranty either. WD only supports 5 year on a select few HD's (Raptors mostly).

i'm totally amazed by the number of votes Seagate got.

When i was a teenager, i used to work for an OEM as a technician, and within the company, Seagate was always considered the cheapest/least quality option.

And where is IBM? HP/Compaq? Quantum? Adaptec? CMS? Overland?

I'm sure at least a few of you guys have seen HP/Compaq fiber channel drives. They are second to none. You will only see them in the top of the line Proliant servers.

Adaptec SAS drives are the best in the world. Don't believe me, ask IBM.

I think this topic should have been called "What is the best mainstream hard drive manufacturer"

And for that i stand strongly against WD.
But I must say that Seagate has a very good warranty department

U asked where is IBM.... it was sold to Hitachi and they are on the list.

U asked about Quantum.... they bought out Maxtor or vise versa.. well I assume they bought them out because a couple of years ago when you bought a Maxtor drive in box and opened it, it said Quantum on the drive. I still have an 80GB Quantum Maxtor drive. And apparently, according to the guy above Maxtor was bought out by Seagate but..

When i first started building computers around 1999 I bought Maxtor all the way and everyone of them died...and died quickly. All CompUSA drives were rejected Maxtor drives that's why they were so cheap.

I then switched to WD and all of them died. They lasted longer than Maxtor but, all eventually died. I think I might have 1 160GB left but that's it.

I now have 4x 160GB WD hard drives sitting here all dead. 2 of them brand new just out of the OEM warranty which is 1 yr. Yes I checked them all on WD's website.

I now have:

1x1.5TB
1x320GB
3x300GB
2x250GB
3x80GB

All Seagate and the only one that does not work is 1 300GB. All 3 of the 300GB's were shipped from out of state to a friend and then a year later to me and one died in transit. Most of these drives are several years old and all have lasted longer than any Maxtor or WD I have ever had.

I also have a Hitachi laptop drive that is like ancient and still kicking. It came from a 1GHz IMB ThinkPad. T23 I think but, it's old.

That's my $.02

I have an old fireball being used as a paperweight arond here somewere... resilient old thing though, still works.

I'm not loyal to any company (for HDDs anyways).
I've never had a drive fail on me.
I remember for my 3rd computer, my mother went over the top and splurged for a 80GB HDD, then my next had 80GB, then the next had 80GB (2005), then the next had 80GB (2007), then I finally got a 250gb (2007) and finally got a 1tb (2009). Only until I got the 250GB did I finally start filling the HDD anyways.
Though my first comp (not actually mine, but whatever), didn't have a 1gig... but my mother kept using that beast for 5 years (just for taxes).
I current use 2 seagates and 1 WD, and all are just running fine.

I have 3-4 HDDs laying around atm, and 3 more inside my comp...