Again, best hard drive maker?

again gotta go with WD.

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Are Hitachi drives any good?
I found a place in my town that sells them really cheap.


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-Shigeru Miyamoto

I voted WD, but Seagate run them a very very close second. Maxtor, on the other hand, can go take a very long jump off a very short pier.

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yeah theyre decent, i have only worked with one and had no probs at all with it.

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WD, then Seagate and Maxtor.

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...*raises hand*...

I had an IBM Deathstar. And it died the most spectacular death. Most drives go quick and quiet. Not this one. It's death throes lasted several hours before it threw the biggest hissy fit and right royally went tits up. So like you, I wouldn't touch the Hitachi's with a 10ft barge pole.

Seen so many Maxtor drives fail at work. Several hundred, maybe more.

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The deathstar uses the dark side of the force. It was fate.

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Wonder it it's fate extended to me smashing it to pieces with a hammer for an hour in the garden? It didn't get my data back, but boy did it make me feel better.

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After 17 votes, it looks like I can already call WD the winner with 58% of the votes.

"A delayed game will eventually come out, a bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto

Had 3 Maxtor's die on me - 1 after 1 month

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Maxtor owned me by the looks of it

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Till they realized the worthlessness of it...

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Erm, no I'm not, and it actually has no bearing on what I say.

I know an awful lot of people with Raptors, and they are extremely pleased with them. Raptors are a cheaper option than going SCSI for PC's now with native SATA. It all boils down to preference. You prefer SCSI, others prefer Raptors. Doesn't mean thay are a POS unless you have catergorical proof.

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You sure are high and mighty....

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My Maxtors served me very well so far. My 40 GB Diamond Max D740X is still working fine after 3.5 years of use. My 80 Diamond Max Plus 9 has been great since I bought it. After 1 year of nearly 24/7 use, it doesn't have any problem and very silent.

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I'm all for the competition.

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Well have U320 15K RPM SCSI Maxtor Atlas and Seagate Cheetah (1st generation).

In the ATA line I've got 1st generation Western Digital SATA, some quite old Hitachi Deskstars (in SATA/USB enclosures) and a newer Hitachi Deskstar (SATA-1).

As you can see I am unbiased!! I would just like to settle the IBM Deathstar myth... Well trust me I've had my Hitachi Deskstars running 24/7 for years for out problems (except the one I blew up by reversing the +5/12V lines - but every story has a silver lining as I got a full refund and got the same drive at a fraction of the original price!!)

BTW I am talking about 250Gb PATA drives bought shortly after that capacity came out when IBM and Hitachi were still in partnership.

For ATA interface drives they are still really fast with low access times. OK they will die if you don't actively cool them... but then more fool you if you're building your own system!!

So in summary Hitachi is dissed far too much. Their ATA drives aren't that noisy and they are fast and reliable!!
I wouldn't buy anything else at the moment for 'big' storage (i.e. 250Gb plus). (The new 500Gb Hitachi SATA drive is obviously rubbish - but everyone makes mistakes :-)

U320 SCSI is great but try building a multi-Petabyte file-server system out of them. Like what I have :-) You would need to be Bill Gate$ or something!! They are great for fast storage for booting from and local process workspace.

Just my $0.02.

Robert

yeah definitly West. Dig. cos there name sounds so cool and ermenomical?? whereas Seagate sounds like a childrens toy. And as far as im considered those are the only two real brands.

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Seagate reminds me of Seamen, which is pronounced semen, which reminds me of my pron collection, which keeps my drive hard, which causes the semen to escape, which is one of the reasons I don't like Seagate...but that is another story...

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I have a 2 gig drive...

It is pretty much down to just WD, Seagate, and Maxtor. The others are budget brands and you get what you pay for with them.

With Maxtor, they are pretty much hit or miss. Their drives that fail early, fail REALLY QUICKLY. Their drives that don't fail early typically last a good while.

With WD, you have a trusted brand who has been around for ages and always been high quality. They have one of the best customer service departments and they fulfill their RMAs quickly and reliably. Points against them however is that they typically fail in year 3 or 4 of ownership and WD recently (a couple of years ago) went from their great 3 year warantee to a lackluster 1 year warantee on most of their lines. Some still carry the 3 year but most don't.

With Seagate... well my first experience with them was a bad one. They refused to honor their warrantee and blamed the WD drive on the same IDE chain for the failure. I was most displeased. Only recently did I give them another chance because I saw they offered a 5 year warantee which was pretty much unprecedented in hard drives. So far I havn't had an opportunity to test their RMA department again as none of the now 4 seagate drives I have bought has failed. Also perpendicular technology is looking to be pretty nice.

In the end I had to vote Seagate but it honestly is pretty close between them and WD.

By the way, if you list Hitatchi and Samsung, why not Fujitsu. I'd rank them all pretty much equivalent at the bottom of the heap but Fujitsu is still out there making hard drives.