[POLL] Best HD Brand

[NetGX]

Yeah althought I have a WD now, traditionally I like the seagate drives more

[ReAnimation]

Hitachi/IBM. They really have shook off the 'deathstar' name, its a pity more people don't check them out.

[beh]

I have never tried an IBM drive so someone tell me why are they so bad.

[xplatinum]

beh : IBM Deathstar

ReAnimation : I had a 120GB IBM and it clicked... then I returned it and the guy gave me an hitachi saying that since they handed their storage their division to hitachi they didn't have the problem anymore... now it clicks more than before !

*beep* *screeeetch* *click* *screeeeeth* *beep*

What a lovely noise :crazy:

[sitzmar]

Back in the day, IBM made the best drives, hands down. Everybody knew they were the best. Then there was the whole fiasco with the 75GXP line. Its a shame that everyone bases their opinion of IBM/Hitachi on (imo) their only failure. Hitachi is producing some awesome drives nowadays, with performance that matches or beats western digital's drives.

Breakdown

#1 IBM/Hitachi - Great performance, quiet, run cooler than the WD's ( owned 3 )

#2 Western Digital - Great performance, quiet, can be tricky in some systems ( owned 2 )

#3 Fujitsu - They make excellent laptop/pocket hd's ( owned 1)

#3 Maxtor - No real complaints, just your average hd (owned 2)

#4 Seagate - barracuda? more like sucksacuda.. am i rite? ( owned 1, supported 30)

[sgtLENIN]

Western Digital. I LOVE my 250 gb WD external disk! :D (looks like a cheap motel when them lights :p). My WD internal disks also work well. My computer is on 24/7 so i should know.

[Draco]

Western Digital gets my vote.

The SE drives are a great buy. 7200 RPM, 8MB cache and a 3 year warranty. I currently own 2.

[-=SD=-]

I hope I love my Raptor, I do have their 20GB version, no problems with it.

Never owned another brand for a HD, so I can't really say :p

[Dreams_Hopes]

Western Digital :)

One of my IBM HD died on me but it was replaced by another Western Digital 120GB 8MB Buffer 7200 RPM HD :)

Got three of them now plus another 80GB WD HD and one sad IBM 40GB.

Maybe the IBM one will follow its twin brother soon. If that day come, I will bury them both together hehe

[DarkLordSouron]

my vote goes to Western Digital

i got an 120 GB HDD 7200 RPM 8MB Cache memory

never got probz.. with it

also got an Quantum Fireball 20 GB HDD 5400 RPM 2MB Cache memoy

[Samoa]

Forgot to mention,

I have a DaimondMax Plus 7200rpm:

120gig ATA133, 20gig ATA133, 80gig 8mb cache SATA

I have had no problems with them, and love the performance of them. (Y)

Have 6gig Seagate and a old 20gig Maxtor, both work well. Just wouldn't boot as Master on my system, and still hasn't yet. Might on this older system though...

[yanman]

Western Digital.

I, like Ponch0, has owned every brand of HDD up there in the poll. I'd have to say:-

WD and Quantum (before Maxtor) has to be the best HDDs I've ever used.

IBM, Maxtor, Fujitsu are great HDDs too.

Seagate probably has some issues with me or something, but I've only had one successful Seagate drive touch my hands. ROFL.

[mimeryme]

Of the ones listed, I've only been burned by IBM (DeathStar).

[jaffa]

Where is Samsung? :(

Samsung has great drives. Espescially the Spinpoint Series.. Quit and fast :) .. there was a review last at uncle toms and the samnsung came out pretty good. in fact better then the maxtor :o .. i like maxtor but they make too much noise imo.. now i hae this spinpoint 160GB SATA from Samsung and it's just :wub: ... Samsung must get more credit.. lets start by putting it in the poll :shifty:

[snippet1]

Best? Seagate.

Best Value? Maxtor.

[linsook]

i've dealt with samsung, fujitsu, maxtor and western... never had problems with any but prefere western digital and recommened it.

[nekrosoft13]

pools don't proove anything

thats just based on opinnions

and this poll votes are useless

[SpikePringlesBro]

Maxtor all the way, their DiamondMax Plus series kick ass, i'm using a 30gb one atm, i cannot hear it AT ALL, it's fast, i did sumthin to it a few days ago, and now my XP load time is about 15 seconds :D

[eds]

Ive owned Maxtor, WD, Seagate, and IBM hard drives. The only brand that hasnt conked out on me within 6 months is Seagate. I currently own two and I vouche wholeheartedly for them. And theyre whisper quiet. Of course when you have 4 case fans you really cant hear a thing.

[darkmark327]

Seagates are too slow for my tastes (cheetahs notwithstanding). My vote goes to WD, but I crave speed so I bought 2 deskstars (plus the WD drives without FDB are too loud...quite an issue when you've got 4 of them...my system is damn near silent once the WD go into power saving and spin down; the deskstars are very quiet), but I don't trust their reliability (rightly so, one of them was dead when I got it) so I have them mirrored. I only had one maxtor drive, which failed, but I realize that it happens. Thankfully it gave me ample warning, so I wasn't burned. Besides, WD has the raptors, which I crave.

[QuarterSwede]

Western Digital here. Although, my father had a Seagate drive in our old 386SX 16MHz computer that still works perfectly! Now that's awesome reliability.

[darkmark327]

Well that beats my WD 330 MB drive from a 486 40MHz that still works : \

9 years old now...wow.

[HEPB]

I got old Quantum 20Gb 5400 drive and it works perfect :) Btw i voted for Seagate :p

[GTX]

I found some old systems from a junkyard that have Maxtor drives in them. The drives are less than 200Mb, but they still run perfectly. And I found them in a junkyard! Who knows what kind of beating the drives went through.

[eXclusive]

WD you silly goose :rolleyes: