I am looking for a 60+ GB hard drive, was looking for some recomendations from the crowd. This will be for use in a personal machine and I am wanting a 7200 RPM drive at least.

I used to be a big fan of Quantum but they were bought out by Maxtor and I had 2 drives fail from Maxtor so afraid to fork out money again.

Suggestions/Comments

IBM rules for hard disks.
Just my 2c.

I agree with Walter. IBM hard disks are good, Seagate are good too.

IBM all the way.

my GXP 60 was everything I could hope for, especially reliability. It seems to be just one of many reasons for taking these babies. Well worth it.

Aloha

go read www.storagereview.com

I love IBM HD my buddy had a IBM failed and the one big prob was they want it packed a certain way for the waranty or they will not cover you so keep your original box around just incase

I cna not remember what HD are made in teh same factory as the IBM but would check out those to

I've bought 4 IBM Deskstar 40GB 7200rpm's and 1 of them crashed. 1 I have not used yet and the other two are working very good. They're really quiet and fast (usually 15+ MB per sec between them).

I agree that IBM hard drives are the best, and fully recommend them.
Seagate's have also improved of late in my opinion, I have a couple running in my machine currently - very quiet, fast, and impressive.

Matt

IBM's are great, try the new GXP 75 series...

ALoha
anybody read this ???
http://www.storagereview.com/IBM_complaint.pdf

I am against class action suits but interesting to rad
my feeling is a lawyer wants to make money so he started it

I've never had a problem with Western Digital...

Originally posted by JTY
I've never had a problem with Western Digital...

Western Digital is the devil's work.

:mad:

The Western Digital WDXXXBB series are pretty quick and stable. We run those in all our EIDE servers and not one problem.

My current machine has an older Western Digital Enterprise, not IDE... but, it works great.

Apparently you guys don't read www.slashdot.org as much as I do.

:-)

There is quite a big discussion on the whole 'IBM drive crashing phonomenon' in this thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/04/0050238&mode=thread .

Dan

Oh, and Seagate drives rock.

I once part owned a computer store, I sold out my 1/4. The drive that has the least problems is Maxtor. Out of all the computers we worked on, many had Maxtor and I remember only one having to be replaced. Even though we didnt make much off them, I pushed our customers to buy Maxtor instead of the others.

The high performance Western Digital WD200BB has been a reliable performer for me. I suspect the larger sizes in that series are also good, since they are built ont he same architecture.

Hmmm after reading this thread... I am backing up my data from the IBM to the second drive.... hehehe better safe than sorry

I have had 2 WD drives crashing on me.... when I returned the first one, I got a replacement from the computer shop.... it was brand new, then after using it for a day it started making noise and died... they gave me a Fujitsu replacement and it has been working fine so far (1-2 months now)

I do currently have a IBM hard drive, not sure if it is one of the models that is on the class action lawsuit or not, but have had no problems. My other hard drive is a quantum fireball and it runs great.

Just looking for that extra space, so far people like the IBM/Segate combo. Others like WD, which is interesting. I might give the WD a try again sometime soon.

You need to be more specific than just saying brand names. A brand's 5400rpm IDE drive could be rock solid and reliable, and their 7200rpm drives could pass much bad wind.

Every company has its cycles in product quality, usually corresponding to specific product lines. For that reason I tend to skip over recommendations that just say things like, "Connor drives rock", because it tells me nothing about which drive was used.

Forget the model number, but I had a WD 15.3 gig drive @ 7200 RPMs and it went bad after 6 months. I did replace it before I lost my data and replaced it with an identical Maxtor drive. I now have 2 of them, one serving as a backup.