Whats your favourite HDD Brand

[Pob255]

I'd say it changes over time, first one brand then another, I'd also like to add that we've got a room with 16 pc's in it they've been running roughtly 12hours a day, 5days a week for 5 years now
two years ago we had 10 HDs die in a couple of months (IDE 40Gb Western Digital I cannot remember model)
I replaced with Seagates, as they were a slightly cheaper replacement cost. none of them has died yet. but at the same time the 8 remaining WesternDigital's are still going strong.

[Magnets]

I like WD, my seagate 7200.10 320GB makes clicky/chirping noises, it's quite fast though.
My old WD was silent

[Trash Man]

Only ever used Seagate in my 11 years on PC building so far. In that time I have only had 1 die on me.

[this_is_gav]

All the WDs I've bought in the last 7 years or so (my first PC that wasn't made out of old biscuit tins) are still working to this day, both at work and home - not even a bad sector among them that I'm aware of.

I've only bought 2 Seagates (both dead within the year) and a Samsung (perfectly fine so far) for my own use in that time.

[tigerboyce]

Ive only ever bought WD as they are the best from what ive heard and have good warrantied and CS. only had 1 fail of about 10

[RRRuss]

My Seagate 7200.10 makes weird noises too Magnets... it's very annoying!!

I had a 74GB WD Raptor in my old PC, I may move that over to my new system, it was quite noisy though.

I have read that the Samsung Spinpoints are very good??

[DragonStar]

Samsung, quiet, cheap, reliable, fast, what more can you want?

[5cupa]

i like seagates but also now buying samsung

[derchris]

no one said they have not been reliable for you, but you asked a question and we gave opinions. :-0

No, I'm saying this because so many in here prefer Seagate over Maxtor, even though they are the same company.

[this_is_gav]

They aren't the same drives though - think of the Maxtor brand being Seagate's budget branch now.

[Koolpc]

Samsung
Seagate

[wmsteele]

Another vote for Samsung, quiet, cool & reliable. Have been very impressed with the newer 400Gb & 500Gb models, very fast and a cool operating 23c-25c temp.

[Mad-Max]

I only ever touch Western Digital now

[Giraffe]

As 32G would be more than enough for me, I'm waiting for the solid state drives to come down in price.

Meanwhile, running Samsung with OS and Maxtor 8 as slave.

Peter.

[wraithblader]

Seagate
Western digital raptors. Noisy but fast