edgrale Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 My 40G IBM is about to die, found 1Mb of bad sectors today :disappoin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 about a year and a half ago, all 3 of my maxtors died within a week. maxtor replaced all 3 of them tho. right now, i'm running 3 80 gig seagates. luv em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Western Digital's HD's are the biggest piece of **** invented! I went through 3 of them before switching to Maxtor, no problems so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravel5839 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 i've been using computers for like 6 years and i've never had an hd die on me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgrale Posted July 8, 2002 Author Share Posted July 8, 2002 i've been using computers for like 6 years and i've never had an hd die on me You've been lucky, I've had two drives die on me. I've been using computers for 13 years now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 never had an HD die on me either been using pcs since 1996 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscrash2k Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 my old 20 gb fujitsu died on me the first week i had it. my older 6 gig maxtor one still works and is my secondary hd next to my 40 gig maxtor. i will never switch back from maxtor again ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick0142 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 never, and i have been computing for most of my life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaguratuS Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 I've dealt with hundreds of drives with my business and this is what I've seen. Maxtor drives are just plain cheap, the plastic is even brittle and its not rare to lose everything on a drive. Several drives had controller issues, and some would come up as slave or master no matter what. Maxtor drives also tend to have a reputation for getting bad sectors over time Western Digital are much better than maxtor IF you buy a higher end drive. They are not cheaply made but they do have a reputation for being sensitive to environments (aka fragile). The higer end drives are the ones you will most likely never have a problem with, like the WD1200JB Seagate drives are extremely reliable but they seem to be behind everyone else with HD development. They run extremely quiet and generally last a long time. Overall, if your buying a high end drive, definately get western digital, otherwise I would go with seagate. If your daring, try maxtor, but don't invest too much money in a drive from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkacow Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 sigh* i bought a quantum HD in hopes that by spending the xtra cash my HD will last longer...... but sadly this is not the case!! lousy quantum!......... my 30 gig died last week........ good thing i bought a 60 gig maxtor just in time 2 back up all my stuff!!.... phew!..... but still i thought quantum was supposed 2 be QUALITY HD's!! Back in the day i used 2 have a Western digital 200 meg HD in my 386 n' it DIED on me!........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLdFuSi0n Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 no HD has Died yet on me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted July 8, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 8, 2002 I lost an IBM 60GB 60GXP about 3 months after I got it. It didn't have anything on it yet, so I got really really lucky. In fact, it's still bolted into my system :D Oddly enough, I have two 75GXPs stacked on top of each other and neither has given out yet. They're supposed to be the crappy ones too :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azazel- Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Only HD I've had that's every died was some Conner cheap piece of crap. Other than that, none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Had a Quantum 10 gig drive in my first PC ever. It lasted for a couple of years (before I evolved into the geek I am today), and I lost most of my stuff. Took it to the shop to have them fix it (greedy *******s! they rip you off!) and got it back about a week later. But ehh, we got a 14.2 gig drive in it after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted July 8, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 8, 2002 other.none.luckily my quantum hasnt died on me yet :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viewmont Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 I built about a dozen computers for a local company and 7 of the hard drives spontaneously died. All the PCs were using high end parts like ATI and Abit but the IT manager requested Fujitsu 10 gig drives. I typicall prefer WD or Quantum (Maxtor now:( ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyy4 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Two Fujitsu drives have died on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvCtUeRcA Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 oh man! I've had 3 maxtor drives (40gb) die on me in the past two months... had them all replaced too! Have one maxtor that works and an IBM drive that has never given me a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimGuy Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 This list is long: 1) Seagate ST3491A 427 MB HDD....... 16 MB's of bad sectors before a head disconnected inside. I can still hear it shaking around here (HDD is sitting on my desk). 2) IBM DSAA-3540 527 MB HDD......... bearing cracked after continuous use for 8 years. Finally retired it today from my server :) 3) Maxtor DiamondMax 6800 27.2 GB HDD........... wouldn't take any true 32-bit operating system (Win2K, WinXP or WinNT)...... turned out there was a logic error in the lucent chip that controls I/O. Drive no longer works. 4) Fujitsu 2.62 GB HDD.......... motor spontaneously quit one day (think it was because of lightning strike that surged that poor PC). 5) Quantum 1.6 GB HDD........ Drive mount in cheap Full Tower AT (yes... AT) case fell 36" to bottom of case, denting HDD casing and putting a hole in the bottm of my poor case. The HDD never worked right after that.... but made this cool buzzing noise whenever you turned it on :) Currently, I'm using a total of 8 Maxtor DiamondMax D540XL 160 GB Drives for a total storage capacity of 1.280 Terabytes. That's the extent of hard drive failures I've enjoyed in my 15 years of computing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werejag Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 had two Western digitals die on me 2 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devobitch Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 hd are mechanical devices they like you cars will all fail it is just a matter of time i am presently repairing camcorders they too will fail because they are mechanical devices all mechanical devices fail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragaday Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Originally posted by AvCtUeRcA oh man! I've had 3 maxtor drives (40gb) die on me in the past two months... had them all replaced too! Have one maxtor that works and an IBM drive that has never given me a problem. Thats *exactly* the same as me, except they died over a 20 month period, not 2. So, erm, not exactly the same then. But close. My IBM is running like a star now though, and the maxtor is used just for holding installations of games, I won't risk anything important on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Western Digital sux! I two WD 30GB hard drives and they both crashed! I got one Seagate 40GB and it has been working with no problem turned on 6 months 24/7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 All my computers and all the computers I've built for the family have had WD. My used 6 gb WD that I gave to my mom died about a yr later but I was about to slave it to my main drive and save everything. A 13gb WD got the clicking death w/i the warranty pd. I got a replacement and was able to move the data to the new drive. That's it for me. I'm VERY happy with my WDs and I'll continue to use them. This J drive problem is a booger for me but I still have hope for it. I'm PRETTY sure it's not a HD failure. But then it's been 5 days in recovery.... anita, slowly losing hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caustiK Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 Lost 2 here, wish you'd had checkboxes - Western Digital 6gb out of a Gateway - sent me a replacement but I lost everything IBM 75gxp 45gb - these things really must be bad - started buzzing/data corruption, seems to work fine now but i don't use it cause i'm afraid it'll die and i'll lose something important - running maxtor 80gb as a replacement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts