Which Drive Would You Prefer?

[shorty420]

I've had my WD's for over 2 years and love them. I have had 0 problems out of them and expect many more years of trouble free life.

 

[Bob S]

Used Maxtors for many, many sytems I have built and never had a complaint or failure... until this week-end. Noticed that I've started to get spin failure. Ordered a new drive today, under warrenty. Strange that it was my newest drive.

 

[Custer]

I like WDs.

I have got a 340MB Maxtor in a 486DX2 that's almost 10 years old... still bumpin' and grindin'. At the time I thought I was hot stuff! 340MB and 8MB RAM... boy them was the days! Don't know if they're worth a flip today though.

 

[Nismo83]

I'm running 2 Maxtor drive on my old pentium 233 MMX machine and they never died on me b4 all these years.. Now i'm also running 2 Maxtor drive..

I am currently {

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Intel P4 1.5 Ghz
Intel D850GB MOBO
256MB PC 800 RDRAM
20GB Maxtor HDD (5400 RPM)
40GB Maxtor HDD (7200 RPM)
52X Creative CDROM
8X4X32 Creative CDRW
16X ASUS DVD ROM
Iomega 100 MB USB Zip Drive
SYBA Ultra ATA IDE controller card
SB live 5.1 DE
Ageing Gainward 64MB GF2MX400 --> | Upgrading to GF4 Ti4 series |
Altec Lansing ACS 56
Dlink D538tx NIC

 

[boxman]

I had liked WD, then had 2 die on me in a week, then a buddy of mine had his 100GB Special Edion die on him. Kind of warry of them now. I then thought I would give an IBM 120 GXP a try. Got an 80 GIG, flawless.

 

[Iceman]

I have had several IBM drives and have only one fail on me, but all drives are capable of failing, doesn't really matter the brand.

 

[The_Schwarz]

ibm i laugh in your face

For all those people that say that IBM drives are the best.

Recently in an Australian Computer magazine, they did a review on HDDs. The only one that they didnt review was ibm and the reason given by ibm was that they rebadge a drive from one of three suppliers, and they couldn't garantee that a user would purchase the same manufacturers drive.

This is because the drive number doesnt link up to a manufactuer, cause they just rebadge an 80G drive from one of the manufacurers as an IBM 80G hdd.

So there you go, an ibm drive that you buy will only be as relable as the drive the manufacturers own.

 

[XPletive]

We're running IBM drives here at work, and I've had to deal with
more hard drive failures that I can count.

I have a Seagate Barracuda at home... love it. Fast and reliable.

 

[Gouk]

Western Digital all the way!!!

My 120GB 8MB cache drive is just soooooo FAST!!!

 

[Jz1397-5]

yea you and me man

 

[kevinr]

I have 2 Seagate 73MB SCSI drives, no problems what-so-ever with either