Ok over all i need a idea what every one thinks is the best HD maker. We have had huge problems with Western Digital and are getting sick on there drives going bad. So just wanted to take a vote before i go and buy new drives.

This is for IDE not SCSI if that helps at all. :D

I've had good experience with Maxtor. I also have some IBM IDE drives that haven't caused any problems. The only IDE drives I've had problems with are WD (coincidence?)

I don't know if this is indicative of the overall quality of the drives -- just my personal experience.

Well I can only say AVOID SAMSUNG!!
I lost 3 HD in less than 4 month.
And know people that have problem with samsumg's HD too.

I've had problems with Fujitsu and Samsung. I've never had any problem with Maxtor.

Ok fo rnow i am staying away from WD..LOL I just ordered some new 60GIG IBM Drives i hope they do better.. LOL

I have never used SAMSUNG but thoght i would put them in the list.. :)

Maxtor??? they rank with the others like samsung, fujitsu, and the other cheap drives. WD is ok but if you want reliability and don't mind paying for it, IBM drives are the way to go.

last time I checked... maxtor ranked right below IBM drives and far above Samsung and Fujitsu.

I've used Maxtors for the past 6 years without a hitch of a problem. I also have a 1.6gb WD that came with an IBM Aptiva... these are still usable.. but had some kind of error like partition tables were corrupted (don't remember) and i couldn't fix it through fdisk or anything

IBMs, i heard, has the speed and reliability... i don't think you can go wrong with them. But then again, Maxtors, IMO are also reliable and bit cheaper in price then the IBMs ;)

i got a 40gb Maxtor 7200rpm which came with 5 more gigs (so 45gb total) and also FREE 100mb zip drive for $120 ;) that was in january - hehe very lucky deal back then

In case people here weren't aware, Quantum sold their hard drive business to Maxtor recently, so there won't be any new Quantum-labeled drives coming out. (And for the same reason, the average quality of "Maxtor" drives is likely to improve dramatically ;) ).

I suggest people check out StorageReview (http://www.storagereview.com) for performance information on different drives, since they seem to be the only organization which thoroughly benchmarks all available drives.

Seagate or IBM

the rest is common Junk

Maxtor, in my opinion, is the best available. I use to use and swear by Western Digital but recently I had problems with a drive that was under warranty. I had it replace and when sending it back there was no label for shipping. I had to pay for the shipping and when I called WD to find out why this wasn't explained when I called for support, they said "It is not our job to tell you that you will have to pay for the shipping. That is standard policy among all hard drive manufacturers." Well that is bull because I had sent back a Maxtor drive shortly before at my work and had no problems whatsoever. It was replaced with a higher sized drive and my company incurred absolutely no costs. Myself, I've never had problems with Maxtor.

I would go with Seagate or IBM also

Yep, I have never had problems with Seagate or IBM.. IDE and SCSI. Have had even a Quantum SCSI disk die on me. Right now IBM Deskstar is one of the best IDE disks you could get.

IBM by far.
I use their drives for many many years now and I never ever had any problems with them.

They are among the fastest so you can't go wrong with them and when should broke it will be replaced right away. Not repaired no REPLACED!
And if you buy 5 drives now and mention my name I get 20 percent ;-)

How do you like my new sig? j/k
Hmmm, another thread I suppose ;)



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Domenico, Senior IBM Executive, Head of Sales and R&D
http://www.storage.ibm.com/
IBM Drives are the best, forget the rest!

Originally posted by Domenico
They are among the fastest so you can't go wrong with them and when should broke it will be replaced right away.

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Domenico, Senior IBM Executive, Head of Sales and R&D
http://www.storage.ibm.com/
IBM Drives are the best, forget the rest!


Amond the fastest? What are they 7201RPM drives? Don't get me wrong, IBM drives are great but I think you may be a little biased. If I worked for IBM, I'm sure I would say the same thing unless I was looking for a new job.

Just my thoughts...

Originally posted by markblair
Amond the fastest? What are they 7201RPM drives? Don't get me wrong, IBM drives are great but I think you may be a little biased. If I worked for IBM, I'm sure I would say the same thing unless I was looking for a new job.

Just my thoughts...

We're talking IDE, so yes, IBM drives are amoung the fastest on the market. I have an IBM Deskstar which I got not to long ago and replaced my SCSI drives with it (I had a seagate cheetah 10k rpm). Offcourse it is not as fast as that drive, but it does pretty good job.

I ever experience Seagate, Quantum and Fujitsu... never had any luck of HD crash so far :). Not long ago, i've purchase a WD, let's hope it brings me the luck too :).

I heard IBM are impressive but just don't have the confidence when i think of IBM is historically famous for producing bad sectors and clicking sounds.

Mark, ever heard of for instance the IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 (15.000 RPMS) ?

Oh, that sig was a Joke ;)

Originally posted by Domenico
Mark, ever heard of for instance the IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 (15.000 RPMS) ?

Oh, that sig was a Joke ;)


Honestly, no I haven't heard of ANY 15,000RPM drives. That is fast. Of course if they are the only ones making a drive that fast then I guess they would be the fastest. I was thinking of the "standard" drives that most people can afford which is 7200RPM and hopefully not too many at 5400RPM. Thanks for the info, though. If I can ever afford something like that, MAYBE I'll look into it...:rolleyes:

Well, it's a SCSI drive and "only" $500 so that's not that bad for such a cool drive ;-)

BTW, there are more drives that do 15.000 RPMS like the Cheetah-X15 ST318451

Really, these are fast but a bit noisy...

I've been using a Cheetah 10k rpm for over a year in my desktop computer and I really do not recommend them for that! These drives are really fast, but really fast brings very noisy and very hot. I had to install 2 BIG fans that were blowing directly on my SCSI drives to keep them from melting. They are really good and reliable drives, but unless you have your computer box in another room, I don't recommend them for desktop computers. Purely server material.
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