Hard Drive preference?

[myth]

Just curious which do you prefer? And why!

[rajagra]

Seagate, just because they're so improved since a few years ago.
WD & Samsung not far behind.
Maxtor & Hitachi OK, but don't excite me much.

[Flibb]

Samsung spinpoint
Shhhhhhh, its quite. Cant hear it over you lot yabbering

[Nick F]

Always have WD and never ever had a problem with them.

[zaphod]

I have 4 Maxtor disks. 2 on a RAID, 1 in a USB caddy and one in an Xbox. I didn't pick maxtor on purpose I can just get my hands on then easy. They are such a quiet disc once you set the acustic Managment with Ftool.

[Tifosi]

I have
5 Seagates 20,80,160,160,250
1 Samsung 120
1 Excelstor 60
1 IBM 10

I found the Samsung louder than the Seagates, although my main seagate does make quite a bit of "ticking" when under a lot of load.

Not sure what the Excelstor disk is, but it was cheap and cheerful and just for storage.

[Timmy!!!]

My 2 fave are Seagate and Samsung. Both are good and bad in diffferent ways.

Seagate - Quietest Idle but seek is noisy.

Samsung - Quiet idle but has a really annoying extremly high pitched whine that most poeple can't hear but I can (A few nights of clubbing should sort that out) Seek is extremly quiet and it supports different levels of quietness depending on performance wanted.

[nichomach]

Maxtor, after having had a run of Caviars, Seagates and Deskstars go tits-up on me. So far, I've not had a single Maxtor go bad.

[myth]

No one likes Hitachi? I never tried one of them before or a Samsung... But I love seagates! They are reliable and fast...

[skattrd]

I've not had a Seagate for a while, but will be getting them next for the 5yr warranty.

[Butcher]

Seagates, they're reliable and fast. My Hitachis work fine though, just not quite as nice as seagates.

[ANZAC_ELITE]

I've had 6 WD hdd's, a 20, 2x40, 2x80, a 120 and No7 (200gig) due to be delivered today. I've had S.M.A.R.T monitoring tell me one of the 80's is going bad so replacing it with the 200 (yes ran WD tools, didn't repair, would rma if I could find the receipt). They have always been reliable, I guess you gotta expect one dud in that lot, though I am still using it at present with S.M.A.R.T. turned off for that drive.

[islasian]

I used to use WD, but switched over to Maxtor. Maxtors seem to be alot quieter. Plus, in our test labs, we use Maxtor and Seagates in our drive arrays

[Scarlet Infidel]

Not sure what the Excelstor disk is, but it was cheap and cheerful and just for storage.

Excelstor is just a cheap relabeled IBM 180GXP (now Hitachi) drive. Ive had several IBM/Hitachi drives and have always been very happy.

Yet i voted for seagate, its hard to explain why.

Also i hate Maxtor with a passion, even though i know they have come along a long way since the tediously slow disk i had a few years back that sounded like an avalanche.

[mike_w]

Seagate - I've found them reliable and there's the five year warranty.

[0iD]

WD, Seagate, Maxtor. All have been good reliable performers for me in the past.