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[Mr Skrunts]

I know there are a load of members interested in computers on the forum.  The last couple of years I have lost touch with whats happening.

I use a lot of hard drive space purely for storage, but end up moving some large chunks of data about at times.

Over the years I was a fan of the Fujitsu drives and then Hitachi.  Used to feel that Seagate were slow and lazy and Samsung rattled as if they were about to fall apart.

Last 2 years I had a 300 GB Maxtor fail on install, annother maxtor fail after 6 months.  Eecenly, I had a 320 and 500 Hitachi go down on me, saying dynamic drive - offline, could not get them back online whatever I tried.

Had to bite the bullet over the last few days and format the hard drive partition with the system on it, but did a memory upgrade in the mean time.  (Long story, but this motherboard only wants to work with the 2 stix that were supplied by mistake 2 x 512 by ebuyer. so now back on 1 GB)(Can talk about memory in annother thread - Keeping this to hard drives)  All installed, all data on other partitions still safe.

Just reformatting the 320 and 500 Hitachi drives having sacrificed all saved data, 1st drive (320) slit into 3 and formatted.

Shut down and attached the 500, tried to split into 5 parts, seems XP Pro would only let me have 4 (did all as primary though - dont kow if it made a difference)  all going smooth.  Opened IE6 had heard the hard drive lock, machine came to a standstill, reboot and all seems ok.

Right, the reason for the thread.  My question is?

What do you rate as the most realiable brand of hard drive.

Am talking Sata II with a minmum of 16mb cache.

TIA.  

[Mr Skrunts]

What do you feel is the most reliable Sata II Hard Drive Brand?

TIA.  

[Entwood]

I'm a tad out of touch now, having closed my little "side company" down 2 years back, but I always rated Western Digital, over the 5 years I had the company I must have used around 150 hard drives, early years were Maxtor and I had a 30% failure rate .. changed to WD and the failure rate dropped to less than 5%

HTH

[Brian T]

I've got 5 Seagate Barracuda's in different sizes and systems at home and I've not had a problem yet with any of them. 2 of them must be 4 years old and are still whirring away quite happily.

[Martin_1962]

3 working Seagate, 1 Maxtor blown and at work Maxtor blown

Fujitsu lap top are good too - have a 100GB in my Pace Twin

Now being recommended to get Samsung for my next PC

[Mr Skrunts]

I'm a tad out of touch now, having closed my little "side company" down 2 years back, but I always rated Western Digital, over the 5 years I had the company I must have used around 150 hard drives, early years were Maxtor and I had a 30% failure rate .. changed to WD and the failure rate dropped to less than 5%

HTH

Was in the same situation up to about 3 years ago.

Had 2 Fujitsu issues, Both caused by me.  Dropped something on my desk, ended up with a bad sector (the only time that I ever suffered one)  and annother was a hard drive I fitted in an alluminium cooler, had not seen the DO NOT COVER THIS HOLE LABEL  :-/  

But it;s only recent years I am suffering failures, they just dont make them how they used to.  :-/

[theolodian]

WD have generally been good to me, and quiet.  Been really really harsh on SATA2 drives, and find them to be very reliable by and large.  Dropping lappy's doesn't go over well though.

[Dodger]

Maxtor are RUBBISH! had THREE go awol in the last 6 months, two of them new, (replacements!!) Nasty pieces of  pooh in my opinion

Current Western Digital been going for 6 years now, (40gig) and has outlived all three 'Maxcrap' ones.   Want to replace it with a bigger one, but it's so reliable, can't be assed!

[Mr Skrunts]

WD have generally been good to me, and quiet.  Been really really harsh on SATA2 drives, and find them to be very reliable by and large.  Dropping lappy's doesn't go over well though.

Certainly doesnt help.

Who makes the 10K RPM Raptors, is that Western Digital?

Any one got one?

[HerefordElite]

My WD has been going strong for about 5 years now - bit noisy though

[Jimbob]

Had many WD's all been good.

Had to swap one out nearing 5 year warrenty - no worries dead easy.

They let you 'pay' by giving card details, they send out new drive, you sen own back at your leisure (1 month i think) and they dont take any money  

[SteveD]

Agree with the coments on the Maxtors, they're awful.

I'll have another 60 SATA2 Seagate 500GB drives for sale soon again with 3 year warranties - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260277298244

If anyone is interested PM me and I'll deal outside eBay for OOF members with +50 posts & should be able to do a bit of discount.

The drives will be here at the end of the month.

Admins - if i'm not allowed to put this here please bin it!

Ta  

[chunk]

Had seagate for 9 years now various capacities never had a failure.

[mantahatch]

WD have generally been good to me, and quiet.  Been really really harsh on SATA2 drives, and find them to be very reliable by and large.  Dropping lappy's doesn't go over well though.

Certainly doesnt help.

Who makes the 10K RPM Raptors, is that Western Digital?

Any one got one?

Yes got two of them in two systems, 100% reliabe to date 18 months old. But they don't seam to run at 10,000 rpm under windows, more like normal 7200 rpm drives. Unless I have done something wrong. If you use the supplied software to test the drive it will spin up to max.


HTH

Mike

[Marks DTM Calib]

Pretty much every manufacturer has had trouble with the higher speed drives on the multi platter technology in the last few years, its only since the advent of the fluid bearings that they have got better.

I have just had my 80G western digital die and replaced it with another (I already have one) Samsung unit.....and I rate the latest Samsungs.