Its all in the question.

I've had good exp with all HD's except the kind FDC uses. I like IBM a lot since they're very well performing.

If you can find Quantum drives I'd suggest them... Unfortunately Quantum was bought out by Maxtor though...

Next to that I'd go Western Digital.

I've seen more WD drives fail.... I'd not use one! I work at a small hosting/dedicated server co with over 100 servers, and most of the WD's I've seen have failed after a couple of years of use.

I've had 3 IBM hard drives fail. I would never buy an IBM/Hitachi hard drive again.

Maxtor HD's are in all my workstations/servers :)

SCSI is the answer to your question.

Didn't Quantum name some of their drives "Fireballs" for a reason?

I like the quality of Seagate drives, especially their SCSI ones. However, I'd expect Maxtor & WD to top the most used HDs list because they're the cheapest.
I'm also currently testing out Samsung drives (since they include 3 yrs warranty), so far so good, but a little bit slower than Maxtor/WD.

Seagate's drives are awesome. Well worth the price.

I like seagate barracuda

WD's and Maxor are nice, and work good for servers.

Seagates are better for more abusive users.

I LAN Party a lot, and WD's and Maxtors tend to die or start going bad after about 6 months of LAN Partying monthly, so I am assuming that they cannot handle the jostling of the case and the travel as well as Seagate. My seagate drives I have had for over 2 years and they are still running great.

Although, I do use WD's 120gb SE drives with the 8mb cache, I just replace them when they start to go bad (find a deal, 120gb se drives for $50 after rebate at Circuit city and the such) and then I sell my existing WD 120gb for $20 after I back up the data.

When used in a server, that isnt moved around hardly at all, Seagate, WD and Maxtor perform about equal in my book.

But I do agree, that SCSI is the way to go, unless you go DMA 133 with a couple of 10,000rpm IBM IDE Drives. SCSI is really better for the fast seek times for serving many many differnt small files (web host)

I always use either WD or Maxtor, for workstations or servers. I haven't seen my Maxtor fail in 2 years, and my WD is relatively new so haven't had time to test fully.

WD's. 8MB buffer :cool:

@ amish_geek: I think the cause is more likely the heat production. I've got WD drives here and as I'm in the middle of building 2 new PC's for myself, I haven't got extra cooling on them at the moment and I'm noticing they are getting really, really hot. I usually have my 7200 RPM drives well spaced behind fans or in cooling racks and don't notice any problems then.

I would never buy another IBM drive. Have read many horror stories and have had some myself with them. 2 of my IBM drives just all of a sudden failed not long after I bought them. I must add that IBM was very good on the RMA. Had them replaced within 48 hours on both occassions.

I've just bought a new Maxtor drive, with liquid bearing, and I must say so far it's very nice. It doesn't make even the slightest bit of noise and is no slower that the Western Digital drives I have (as far as I can see).

We've had significantly less problems with the Seagates than the WD drives, and both have 8MB cache available. My vote is Seagate.

I voted Seagate but I also think Western Digital and Maxtor are good enough, but Seagate just pulls out on top.

I've replaced over 75 Quauntum drives in the past 3 years. Hope Maxtor has better luck with them.

WD 10,000 rpm Raptors are the way to go.

BTW for you IBM lovers, they sold their hard drive business to Hitachi and there is no such thing as an IDE 10,000 IBM/Hitachi Drive

Hey I want too buy server parts from local stores not off sites! Don't local stores like Best buy, Future Shop, Radioshack etc. sell server parts like processors, hardrive,ram, ports? If they do please tell me. If you tell me they should sell them because a server is like a p.c, too me:rolleyes:

The results so far are very interesting, as far as I know Rackshack only use Seagate & Western Digital.

Originally posted by Globex Hosting
Hey I want too buy server parts from local stores not off sites! Don't local stores like Best buy, Future Shop, Radioshack etc. sell server parts like processors, hardrive,ram, ports? If they do please tell me. If you tell me they should sell them because a server is like a p.c, too me:rolleyes:

You can buy some parts at BestBuy, like harddrives. However, some parts they sell may not work in servers. Most servers are rackmount (wide and thin) and most parts from a electronics store are designed for towers (narrow and tall). Plus those types of stores don't always have the best prices. You'd be better off buying some OEM parts at a computer show or online. You'll save alot of money that way.

Drives fail. Anyone who is responsible for large numbers of machines will likely have a grudge against one vendor or another. In my case it's IBM (50% failure rate on one batch of drives). I've also lost a few Seagates.

Currently I kind of like Maxtor. None of my Maxtors have failed... Yet.

kingpcgeek- There are a such thing as IBM 10,000rpm IDE drives, at least there were. I saw them advertised online a while ago, I'll see if I can find them again, but I have heard/seen them advertised, and know other people who are aware of them as well.

Found it: http://www.superwarehouse.com/IBM_146.8GB_IDE_Hard_Drive/32PP0765/p/142875

For as long as we have tested, Seagate delivers the best results. Nice speed, reliable, etc.

We've used some IBM 120 GB drives but those run just too hot for me, I once tried to remove one of those that had been working for about 1 hour on a computer that had only a small fan on the back of the case (for cooling purposes) and it was almost impossible, it just burnt.

Originally posted by amish_geek
Found it: http://www.superwarehouse.com/IBM_146.8GB_IDE_Hard_Drive/32PP0765/p/142875
That is a typo on SuperWarehouse's Web Site. The product they are selling is a SCSI drive, not an IDE drive. There is no IDE drive around that sells for $2900. http://www.buymicro.com/default.cfm?loadlist=820030

WD is the only one selling a 10,000 rpm drive because they no longer sell SCSI drives, thus they don't cannibalize the lucrative, higher price SCSI business.

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200303/20030320WD360GD_1.html

I would vote for seagate because I had no problems with them at all. There hd's are very reliable and strong. No problems for a year, so far:) Well i think wd is cheap but not good, since mine burned out in 4 months:stickout:

Seagate and maxtor, too many storys recently about ibm and wd crashing

QUANTUM? rofl

roflmao

Anyone who has worked as pc tech or field engineer or in tech posistion involving quantumn hdd's (compaq deskpro's anyone?) should be able to tell you how much these drives suck. Im glad they were bought out.

Once when I was remote field engineer covering 1st citizens bank branches on this half of VA and all the WVA branches we had so many quantums dieing at a time that me and the admin were swapping pcs out for people using pcs from people that were on vacation and at one point had to use our own desktops. That was in a datacenter in Roanoke that had like 100+ people at it.

I would put my 2 cents in with Seagate, WD, or IBM for performance.