Maxtor vs Segate vs IBM

[philkf]

the ibm i had was a IBM 180GXP 80Gb 7200rpm ATA100 2mb Cache Hard Drive

 

[Leo154]

hey philkf .. is the ibm drive good with you.. is it behaving?

 

[G-Lizard86]

Get a WD (no option i know) but i had a 40 gig version for 2 years, and it's still working fine, now i have a second one, 80 gig's 7200rpm, 8mb cache, working for a month now, no problems what so ever. It seems that Samsung and especially Fujitsu are very good, at least mine is, i still have a 6 gig Fujitsu working in another computer for some 4-5 years now....

 

[G-Lizard86]

Oh you bought one allready...well....anyway..good luck wit it..

 

[Leo154]

well naturally i would've got the WD 8mb cache but i couldn't... too bad

i heard that thing goes as fast as scasi,is that true?

 

[G-Lizard86]

Yeah....it's scares the crap out of me...it's way and way faster than my 40 gig 5400rpm one....that cache and rpm of that thing are fabulous..

 

[Leo154]

lol..

 

[G-Lizard86]

/me drools over monitor

 

[Taurus]

Originally posted by Leo154
i heard that thing goes as fast as scasi,is that true?

only in burst speed tests. in real world tests it's anywhere between 0 and 10% faster than the 2mb version.

from the results i've seen, anyway.

 

[spikemic]

first choice > seagate
second > maxtor then newer ibms almost even
never choice > wd dont like them for myself, would never put one in a box i built for someone else

 

[G-Lizard86]

Originally posted by taurus
only in burst speed tests. in real world tests it's anywhere between 0 and 10% faster than the 2mb version.

from the results i've seen, anyway.

They say the bigger cache also results in a longer lifespan...

 

[Zedric]

Originally posted by G-Lizard86
They say the bigger cache also results in a longer lifespan...

Theoretically, yes. Less operations on the acctual disk means less wear and tear. But what difference it does in real life, if any, is hard to say.

 

[jvjb1983]

I don't know about you guys but I have a Western Digital Caviar 22100 IDE with 2.1 GB of storage. And I've ran this thing in the ground day after day since I bought it, and it keeps

"going and going and going"

I know all th rest of my drives are not western digital but any new ones sI get will definitely be Western Digitals.

 

[G-Lizard86]

I'll for how long she lasts....

 

[Henyman]

/me has a maxtor 40gb 72000 VERY quite......dam fan makes lots of noise though

 

[spikemic]

72000? wow that must scream!!

 

[Nick M]

People are very biased towards HDDs

Personally all the WD's I had, each and every one of them, died.
Maybe the company does not like me.

I couldn't care less. I trust IBM and Samsung, I have a Samsung 6GB 5400rpm, she spins every day, and has not been turned off for at least a month now.

And I had that drive since 1997.

 

[Henyman]

wOOt Oem rulez

 

[Grymblayd]

My first build had a Maxtor ( forgot the model #) and it ran for over four years no problems.

Then I had a system with a 40gig WD and 6 months later the drive failed.
A new one arrived ( same model ) and 1yr later it showed signs of fatigue.

We use Seagates downtown and they have been running quite well.

I just bought 3 x 80 gig Maxtor ATA133 HDDs, 2 of which will be running in RAID 0.

My vote obviously is with Maxtor.

 

[RazerBack]

I'd stick with IBM but then they sold their HD division to Hitachi.
Never had a problems with the IBMs. 2 hd - Raid 0 main OS , and another 2 hd for storage and backup. The Raid ones are always kept cool from the front intakes in the Lian-Li case. Been running like that since August 2001.

Maybe I'll have to switch to Seagate once the SATA drives are widely available, hey, that would mean a new computer.