[POLL] Best HD Brand


Which brand of HD is, in your opinion, the best ?  

226 members have voted

  1. 1. Which brand of HD is, in your opinion, the best ?

    • MAXTOR
      49
    • WESTERN DIGITAL
      111
    • IBM (HITACHI)
      14
    • FUJITSU
      1
    • SEAGATE
      51


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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:

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)

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

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...

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.

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:

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.

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.

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