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My Seagate cheetah 15k is the best I've used. Really fast, reliable, just a damn nice drive. Screamed like a banshee though.
For OS and games....74GB Raptor...very nice!
For data I like my 120GB WD EIDE drive(s).
Funnily enough the drive I liked best at the time was an original IBM SCSI Deskstar. It was far cooler and more reliable than the Seagates I had been using. It was retired from its 3rd computer after 6 years due to being too small, but was still going strong.
I have to say I've always found Seagate's RMA a pleasure to use - even if I had to send it to Holland. They replaced one Barracuda in its last few weeks of warranty within a few days with no questions asked.
I have about 3 Quantum Fireball 3.2GB drives in my drawer that get shoved into test machines, and used for general crap. They haven't given up yet!
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Fireballsforgot about those...I have one of those somewhere
No one has mentioned IBM....?
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
*Points to Thorsson's post*
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My IBMs have all been fine, they just were as good as the cheetah.Fireballs
No one has mentioned IBM....?
really...blimey.
I know that long ago IBM's were proper drives...buit then recently they had a few.....problems
Long ago IBMs were the Badger's nadgers. But that is long ago. For some reason HDs seem to go in cycles, the cr*p ones get better and the good ones get cr*p. My worst record with HDs has been in my work Compaq Laptop. Two failures in 6 months.
An old old hard drive made by a company called Coner don't even remember what size it was. Made in Scothland! or my IBM120Gb Deskstar...
'Twas Conner. Used to make good HDs. AFAIK they got bought by Seagate. Maybe why Seagate drives improved...
15gb IBM GXP75
Still runing to this day, still fast, just keeps going.
really...blimey.
I know that long ago IBM's were proper drives...buit then recently they had a few.....problems
This is wat happens when your on the bleeding edge of hdd tech.
The pushed the design of hdds to there limits and it didn't pay off.
But then without that we whould not have the large cache on hdds, the giant read heads, the faster spindel speeds and so on.
a lot of early tech went into the gxp range that many other manufacturs have used.
Best drive I have had, or should I say the only drive that hasn't packed up on me, is my old 6.4GB Seagate! Its still running well! I have had other seagates, and numerous IBM drives, and they have all packed up at some stage!
Currently got 2 Samsung drives in my machine. They are the quietest I have ever had and I really hope these don't give in like all my previous drives!
Ant
My 1.1gb WD Caviar... still going, even though I threw it across my room, and it's been dropped while running several times.
YES! I have a drive that has survived a dropping. It's ace getting one up against the manufacturer's recommendations.
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