Best drives for reliability?

[zack]

I'm looking for a new HD. I mostly want it to be reliable, but with decent speed and quiet. In my current system I have a Maxtor 91010D6 10 gig 5400 rpm and a Seagate ST-33223A 3.2gig 4500 rpm. The Maxtor is very noisy, and I can't even hear the Seagate.

They both seem pretty fast to me, but my friend says once I try a 7200 rpm drive I won't go back.. So which ones do you recommend.. I am leaning toward Seagate for their reliability. I have one that's over 7 years old and it's still running well on my 486 linux box.

I have had a Western Digital in the past too, It worked fine before it died less than a year after I got it. I have seen a few of those drives go bad at school too.. Are they any better nowadays ??

 

[Arrow]

I would recommend Maxtor as a good reliable brand. Their drives are very good performers as well. As for Western Digital, they don't seem to be too reliable and I wouldn't recommend them.

Rob
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[AMD_Man]

As for Western Digital, they don't seem to be too reliable and I wouldn't recommend them.

That was in the past. It seems to me that they are very reliable now.


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[Lars_Coleman]

I agree with Arrow. I haven't actually had another one of the Western Digital drives since they came out with newer models, but I only had to buy one to never buy another. My personal preference I guess ...

Anyways, I think the Maxtor drives are very reliable. I have about five of them in two different systems and I have had them all for about six months to a year running about 24/7 without any problems. I would have to add that I feel that a lot of reliability in a hard drive has a lot to do with handling. I have delt with a lot of customers that yank hard drives out of the case, slam them on the table, touch everything on the drive, and then expect to put it back in the machine and have it work the same as when they pull it out. The way I usually put it is that they are a mechanical device and they will fail. It's a matter of when? You have the best car manufactures out there making lemons, and that's the same for any hardware manufactures. Anything that is done on an assembly line isn't 100% fail proof!

 

[Arrow]

A couple quickly failing WD drives a year or two ago was enough to keep me away

Rob
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