What make HD's do you use?

[spazman]

I have Western Digital hard disks in all my machines bar my shuttle which has a 100gb excelstor

[Apex]

1 * 160gb Samsung p80 Spinpoint
1 * 250gb WD : SE

Would not use any other hard drives these days

If sammy made bigger hdds i'd have only samsung in here

[pgudge]

Maxtor & IBM

The first HD that ever died on me was a Maxtor, it was about 8 years ago, and the drive was probably about 10 years old then. I didnt care what drive I had after that as long as it worked.

Then came the system builder years, where I was getting pretty much 50% of HDs back with either Bad Sectors, Clunks, Clicks, the lot, the only drives I NEVER got back were IBM's. Back then they were a lot dearer than other makes thus probably making them a better drive ?!?!

Then about 3-4 years ago, the IBMs dropped price, and obviously quality, and became as bad as the rest. IMO. Although the 3 years warrenty and excellent (yet expensive) RMA process was ok.

I bought 4 IBM 180GBs for a RAID set about a year back and 2 of the drives didn't even make POST, 1 started clicking at me after about 4 resets and the other was fine. So that was it. Oh there was the time when I lost my 100GB+ mp3 collection on a IBM drive that scared me for live, but I won't go into that.

So after much ball ache and asking and begging other professionals for there opinions on drives (for home and small office mind you) I have started buying Maxtor Diamonds. They have 3 years warrenty on most sizes, and support ATA-133, even though I run them at ATA-100 anyway.

Thats my nonsence anyway. I have never had to deal with Maxtor with an RMA, so I can't comment on that process, Which I suppose is a good thing

[Rabs]

I dont use Maxtor drives due to their reliability compared to all the WD drives I've used, but I can say the Maxtor RMA is the best of all HD manufacturers.

My mate just RMA'd a WD drive (first one of about 15 Ive bought for myself and friends) - he sent a 180GB back and got a 200GB in return. Cant argue with that

[pgudge]

Its hard to answer questions like these, I know there not questions, just Opinion Seeking, but Even after saying that about IBM's. My main dev machine has 2 IBM drives into, one is a old 20GB that is still working a treat. and a newer 120GB.

If someone makes thousands and thousands of something, there has got to be a some bad eggs in the batch, not forgetting the number of people whom have held the HD before you got it that could have dropped and knocked it, (Transport to Shop warehouse, scan, komplett, stak), there storing process, Picking, Courier, etc.

All I can really say is that I have always felt more quality in IBM drives than others. A friend got a Maxtor about a year back and it was tiny, the drive was half height, that was cool, more air can get round it for heat purposes I suppose.

I really think its a personal choice. Someone, somewhere has had a IBM, Maxtor, WD, Seagate die on them before, and will never use them again for that reason.

[petrefax]

i like my maxtor - pretty quiet, 3 year warranty, was a reasonable price when i bought it & at the time SATA was still fairly new so got it cos they were the only ATA-133 drives available (not that its a huge increase over ATA-100, but ...)

[joshwa]

samsung(80gb)/seagate(10gb) @ home

we get maxtors/wd/hitachi @ work mainly. they all seem good - the laptop size hard drives in the new small dells seem to fail more than normal sized hard drives.

[Barry]

Western Digital

[Dorza]

Western Digital in my main and Maxtor in my secondary system. Voted WD tho Bought WD after Maxtor because i wanted to take advantage of 8MB cache

[Devilbod]

1. Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP (SCSI Ultra 320)
Capacity:36.7 GB
Speed:15000 rpm
Average Seek Time:3.8 ms
Bling!
Don't know about sound the sound of the fans drown it out , other than that fine.

2. Maxtor 91000D8 DiamondMax
For Backup
No problems at all with this drive and I've had it a while.