What make HD's do you use?

[Rabs]

Good day all, time for another poll, this time a multi select...

What make HD's do you use and why?

I'll start..

In my main system I have 2 x 36GB Raptors in RAID 0 and a seperate WD2000JB 200GB, my other rigs I have a WD1200JB in each.

I use them because they are quick and (mainly) because of the 3 year warranty that comes as standard.

Also a few years back I used to use IBM Deathstars 75GXP and 60GXP series, out of 13 I got for me and my mates 11 went back at least once

[malfunction]

Western Digital... Very reliable in my experience (have used loads at work as well as having 2 80GB SE's at home) and good warranties. Only problems I've had are 2 DOA 36GB Raptors which I'm 99.99% sure was down to the supplier's packing monkeys...

[Aaron]

Seagate in my main computer, due to its virtually silent operation.

Just build a new system for someone else and the Seagate SATA drive I put in was actually quite noisy when seeking (still silent when idle though) so I'll probably swap to Samsung for my next one.

[Applecrusher]

My new Samsung Spinpoint
Because i was told on here by most that they are good.. and it seems that way so far

[Howard]

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[Darkmatter]

IBM / Hitachi been using them for the past 4 years

[Falcon2004]

123.5GB IBM Deathstar and a 200GB WD in my Main rig and I recently sold my second rig that had a 60GB Maxtor in it. Will be buying WD from now on as its the one thats pleased me the most with the least mount of problems =)

Falcon

[r1zeek]

the Seagate SATA drive I put in was actually quite noisy when seeking (still silent when idle though)

Yeah, i found that with my Seagate SATA.

Most machines I've had have had Seagates I tend to get them mostly. I have moved more over to W.D. now after hearing so many good things about them.

[skattrd]

I've got a mix of brands and types .... very happy with all of them.
SCSI for boot + stuff I'm working on (video editing etc.) ide is purely storage.

SCSI
Quantum Atlas 10k's
IBM 15k (boot drives)

IDE
WD Caviar SE (storage)

[directhex]

a pair of wdse's in the server - one is old, and he other was to match it in RAID 1.

other than that, samsung all the way - quiet, fast, cool-running, 3-year warranty. have 2 in the server, 1 in the desktop, and gave one to the girlfriend for her birthday

[Zak33]

Hexman...you old Romantic

although to be fair your girfriend is probably in need of your hard drive ....

*i'll get my coat*

[Flibb]

Am using a WD caviar SE 7200rpm 8mb cache.
Reasons were
Price. was a good deal only a little extra over standard
Performance. Tis quick
Warranty. 3 years (hopefully shows faith in the build quality)

I was amazed at the temp of my old deathstar was damn hot, so have fitted a 80mm fan filters in front of the drive, stays well cool.

[unrealrocks]

All of the above apart from Exelsor.

My main machine runs a 120Gb Samsung SpinPoint - simple fact is apart from the raptor its the fastest drive on the market (apart from SCSI etc.) and its also one of the quietest - I don't mind paying the premium for the lower noise, lol. Also funny enough it can out write, read, find any other 7,200rpm SATA drive and it runs happliy on IDE

[turkster]

Pretty much all WD here. Mainly because they are cheap with good performance although they are noisy .
Three WD Caviar SE 80GB 8MB cache drives in my main rig.
One WD Caviar SE 40GB in my parents machine.
Various Seagates and Maxtors in older systems.

[Paul Adams]

Seagate Barracudas (PATA) - very fast, large cache, completely silent even when getting thrashed

[Clstrphbc_donut]

Im using an IBM 40GB from my first (half decent) PC, a 30GB maxtor i bought as i needed space and was skint, and a 120GB maxtor 7200 2mb (thats loud as hell) that i got from somewhere doing an offer on it (cant remember where, maybe komplett).

All to change soon though