What's your favorite harddrive brand?

[neiroatopelcc]

 

 

[andy5174]

Seagate is not in my consideration anymore due to their crappy quality these days.

WD BLACK is my favorite now, nevertheless it is noisy compared to other drives!

 

[lothdk]

I have used most brands for my own, family and friends builds as well as work related, and have to say I prefer WD.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Seagate is not my consideration anymore due to their crappy quality these days.

WD BLACK is my favorite now, nevertheless it is noisy compared to other drives!

compare it to a hitachi 7200rpm 2tb drive and you'll find it very quiet I promise.

 

[jsc]

I have pretty much standardized on WD.

 

[Chainzsaw]

Seagate.

I've used them throughout the years and they have been always reliable, not to mention they were usually quieter than the rest.

Western Digital would be my second best option - they have been great speed demons, but seem to lack the reliability of my seagate drives i've had.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Since seagate owns what's left of maxtor I would never dare buy a seagate drive. I know they're the only manufacturer shipping retail drives that work in both raid and desktop enviroments equally good, but just the idea that there could be a hint of maxtor breakdown technology in them makes me ignore them completely.

 

[Chainzsaw]

One more thing...

Hitachi/IBM? LOL

Anyone remember those Deathstar
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[dgingeri]

I swore off Deskstar drives back in the Deathstar days, after losing 3 in 2 months. After that, I swore off WD and Seagate due to every one I had failing from a 6.4GB Seagate to a 20GB WD. I spent some time with Maxtor, from a 20Gb drive to a 300GB drive, but then they got bought out. I never had issues with them despite others complaining. I then went back to Seagate from my 300GB pair to a 1TB pair. Recently, though, I bought 3 750Gb WD Caviar Black drives, mostly because they were so much faster, and I had heard they improved reliability.

I still don't trust Hitachi or Samsung at this point. I haven't seen any evidence that they improved their reliability. Toshiba laptop drives are the ones I would stay away from the most.

At this point, due to the warranties of various drives and my lack of finding bad drives, I'd say my top is Seagate, but a very close second would be WD.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

the deathstar drives were only bad between 10 and 80GB - because of humidity collecting inside the drive. Those were bad days....
as for WD - I've had 3 raptors break, and one 8GB drive - and 9 500GB drives ... but in contrast I've probably had to scrap over 50 maxtor slim drives (between 20 and 80gb) ... I however was running raid boxes with 16x hitachi 250gb sata drives for 3 or 4 years (scrapped now) without any issues of note. Never sent a drive in for repair. They're just so damn loud that I'll never buy another one.

 

[dallasjoh]

Western Digital Black!!!!

 

[andy5174]

Don't just vote. State the reason of your choice, otherwise this thread is meaningless!

 

[MrLinux]

Depends on the job (requirements, size, interface etc), some times WD is better, other times it's a Sammy, last year Seagate would have been a consideration (but probably not now).

Every drive manufacturer has high and lows, at the moment WD are on a high and Seagate are suffering from the fall-out from the Maxtor takeover followed by the 7200.11 fiasco; Sammy F1's wern't too good, but the F3's make-up for it.

To be fair to Hitachi, the DeathStars were bad when IBM were making them, Hitachi got stung (Big Time) when they bought the company and have done a first class job in getting them sorted, if you need a PATA drive Hitachi should be on the list.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

What's wrong with the F1? I've only ever bought two, but I don't recall having had any problems with them and I haven't heard of firmware bugs like those of seagate either ....

 

[MrLinux]

I have (personaly) had quality problems with F1's, (DOA's and failures within the first few months etc.), Every F3 I have used (so far) has been 100%.

Only problem with Samsung is they are a very big company, the HD business is a very small part, so after sales support (when something goes wrong) is often left to the reseller...

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Okay - support is where wd shines - drives do break, but they'll be replaced and the process is very simple. In fact I've even dropped a wd drive in the parking lot and it was replaced - they could somehow see it was broken prior to me dropping it. hitachi support sucks balls in comparison, and with seagate I've had a broken (new) drive sent in twice without them fixing it - I then tossed it into the electronics trash container.