Which HDD is most reliable?

[cpcpatrick]

I am going to buy a new 120GB HDD, I am looking for the 4 big brands, namely Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital and Hitachi? Which one is the most reliable from your experience?

Regards

 

[smitbret]

I like Western Digital and Seagate for reliability. Never lost an ounce of data to either brand. The same could be said for the IBM/Hitachi drives I've used, but I don't have as much experience with them. I've had two Maxtors absolutley die on me in the past 6 months. They were both 40gb 7200 rpm with 2mb cache drives. Both about 8 months old and installed on different people's computers. Sounds like a bad batch of drives.
-Brett

 

[DJ_Kuehn]

I've never really had too much in the way of physical hard drive failures, with 2 exceptions. I had a 120mb (yes, MEGABYTE) conner die on me once (back on the good old 386dx40 days, but that probably doesn't count and I had a 1 gig 1024mb Maxtor die once. My old machine has a 18 gig 7200 WD in it (best IDE drive available at the time) and its been running practically 24/7 for about 6 years now I think. It has been rock-solid, never a single problem at all, and now I'm pretty faithful western digital fan.