Hard disk shopping

**manavo11** · Feb 9th, 2004, 07:29 PM

What company would you suggest? At the moment I have a Maxtor S-ATA 160 GB on my PC... Will I have any trouble connecting another one? Setting them as C, D and stuff like that? Or should I just take it to the store?

Thanks

**IntelSucks** · Feb 10th, 2004, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by manavo11
What company would you suggest? At the moment I have a Maxtor S-ATA 160 GB on my PC... Will I have any trouble connecting another one? Setting them as C, D and stuff like that? Or should I just take it to the store?

Thanks

NOTE:I am probably going to be called stupid because of my opinions, usually by VisionIT, IdeasMan, or Kasracer but I am going to post anyway.

Go with Western Digital...I have had nothing but problems with Maxtors...in my opinion they freaking suck!

Its ok though...I WOULD go with a western digital because personally I have never had anyproblems with them.

**manavo11** · Feb 10th, 2004, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by IntelSucks
NOTE:I am probably going to be called stupid because of my opinions, usually by VisionIT, IdeasMan, or Kasracer but I am going to post anyway.

Go with Western Digital...I have had nothing but problems with Maxtors...in my opinion they freaking suck!

Its ok though...I WOULD go with a western digital because personally I have never had anyproblems with them.

Thanks for your response

Any opinion for Seagate?

**made_of_asp** · Feb 12th, 2004, 12:38 AM

Hello

I have'nt had many drives in the past, but i'l add my exp. anyway:

Seagate - 1 failure [ HDD came with a lot of bad sectors], 2 good hard disks with no errors [ Barracuda IV]. The failed hard disk is an old 5,400 rpm 20 gig.

Fujitsu - Not very good experience. Bad sectors tend to appear.

Maxtor / WD / IBM - Never tried.

**W01fgang** · Feb 12th, 2004, 01:24 PM

I used Maxtors in large amount 5-6 smallest 10Gig and 80Gig, with the 80 running on RAID.

Western Digital in my personal experience is very reliable and innovative. Never had any failure except that ancient 340MB HD.

Seagate has always been mixed. Some HD in some batches are more prone to Bad Sectors and failure while other are fairly reliable.

I believe it has more to do with where are those HD are made and batch.

I like Maxtor because i also realized i could fix their HD failure and undetectability more easily. I collect Bad HD from all over the office and bring them home and discovered they are almost all fixable. Now i got more than 20 HDs at home with a nice file server.

**Kasracer** · Feb 12th, 2004, 03:26 PM

I currently have over 280GB of space with 3 Maxtor drivers and none have skipped a beat.

My friend had a WD drive and it died on him the first week he used it.

Maxtor == WD. Both are very great quality and, usually, it's luck (or bad luck) that one of the drives die of either brand.

Seagate is also fairly good, almost as good as Maxtor/WD IMO, but not quite.

IBM stopped making hard drives I believe (if they didn't, they should). IBM made the WORST hard drives ever made. I think the fail rate was like 50% or higher on those damn things. They have caused me much angst (and I never even owned one!).

Hope that helps, and yes, 'IntelSucks' is an idiot

^^^^^^^^^ THIS IS CALLED A JOKE MARTY, NOT AN INSULT SINCE HE WAS WAITING FOR THE COMMENT

**manavo11** · Feb 12th, 2004, 04:10 PM

Thanks for all the opinions

**IntelSucks** · Feb 12th, 2004, 05:01 PM

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**dis1411** · Feb 13th, 2004, 12:42 AM

i use maxtors, no problems
i dont know anyone thats had a problem with a maxtor
i do know people that have had Western Digitals die on them

also, there were several articles that came out a year or 2 ago about WD's drives and lack of quality in them

and for the love of god dont take your computer to the store!!
just plug it in and it'll be ready to go.. a maxtor will even come with a fool-proof disk that does the fdisking for you

**IntelSucks** · Feb 13th, 2004, 12:59 AM

I think it is all just a "luck" thing because you know when you have a HUGE production of the same hard drive SOME of them are gonna be bad. When it comes to Maxtor, I have had nothing but trouble but NEVER had problems with Western Digital. It's different with everyone.

**manavo11** · Feb 15th, 2004, 04:21 PM

Originally posted by dis1411
and for the love of god dont take your computer to the store!!
just plug it in and it'll be ready to go.. a maxtor will even come with a fool-proof disk that does the fdisking for you

I didn't take it to a store, don't worry

I got a Seagate after all and like you said I just plugged it in and it worked

Thanks everyone

**W01fgang** · Feb 15th, 2004, 06:00 PM

Some batches are worse than others. regardless of brand. Usually, production of new drives is more prone to QC problems.

I am glad IBM sold their HD unit to Hitachi 'cause they gave me so much headache.

Maxtor had some minor software hiccups which caused it to be undetectable, never detected any Bad Sectors though. This could be fix with Maxtor's own HD Utility software.

Ever since Maxtor swallowed Quantum, things are looking up with more reliable goods. I could still recall years and years ago, Maxtor had a crappy reputation.

I agree with previous post, it's something of a luck thing.

**manavo11** · Feb 16th, 2004, 08:58 AM

Maxtor bought Quantum?!?

**W01fgang** · Feb 16th, 2004, 11:47 AM

Originally posted by manavo11
Maxtor bought Quantum?!?

Yup and used up quantum's whole inventory of metal casing and plate.

There were some earlier maxtor HD that looks exactly like the Quantum Fireball.

I'm actually waiting for the next generation of serial ATA combine it with WD's 10000RPM HD

**cid** · Feb 16th, 2004, 01:46 PM

Maxtor hardrives suck. I have known 3 pretty good hardrives go down with the same error within the warranty time.
I have used Western Digital and have recomended them to every one. I have never had a problem with them. I havent used seagate that much because they are normally expensive.

Actually the only company to ever give me or my friends trouble is MAXTOR!!!

**manavo11** · Feb 16th, 2004, 03:43 PM

Well I don't think the Seagate I bought was really expensive... I got the S-ATA 160 GB Seagate for 140 euros...

**W01fgang** · Feb 16th, 2004, 05:40 PM

140 Euro... that's about right in USD. You're paying the standard retail price.

For that price, i would prefer to get two 80GB with 8MB buffer at 7200RPM.

This allows two independent sets of read-write heads to operate simultaneously... less stress, less heat, slightly higher system performance.

With frontal mobile racks, you could change HD without opening the case it self. With extra $$, you could hotswap.

**plenderj** · Feb 17th, 2004, 04:02 AM

Originally posted by W01fgang
slightly higher system performance.

If you had a dedicated IDE RAID controller card - otherwise it would be the main CPU performing the disk mirroring/volume extension work.

**manavo11** · Feb 17th, 2004, 04:58 PM

Good to know I wasn't overcharged

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