Best hard disk drive

[dirtracer36]

Which hard drive manufacturer do you like and trust the most?
Maxtor
Western Digital
Seagate
Other brand

 

[Dutch]

Western Digital all the way. Maxtor drives are great paperweights.

 

[Smith6612]

The Western Digital Drives here as well. Maxtors are good, but they're a bit heavy. The Western Digital Drives I find run cooler, are a bit faster (especially their SATA drives) and are very light. I have two of them, one which is a 1TB drive, and another that is a 500GB hard drive.

 

[Spartan Erik]

I believe Seagate and Maxtor are one company now, but I've had no problems with any Seagate hard drives (2 externals, 1 internal)

 

[VPmase]

Hitachi - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145167

 

[kkenny]

I <3 Western Digital drives, they so far never have reached above 92(o)F with the help of liquid cooling, and they would be great for many purposes.

 

[LHVWB]

I use western digital or Seagate, and I'm wondering if there is actually any different inbetween the different brands?

 

[alexandgruntz]

Seagate is a good brand, unfortunately my Dell came with a Maxtor drive.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Alex, you know that Seagate and Maxtor are one company right?

 

[wolf693]

I have a Seagate in all of my computers. I usually go with either a Seagate or Western Digital. It doesn't matter to me!

 

[alexandgruntz]

Alex, you know that Seagate and Maxtor are one company right?

I do now.

 

[sarge_pompus]

I've had nothing but problems with Maxtor drives. Every laptop/computer I owned at one stage CAME with a maxtor drive. In every case, they died within 12 months.
W/D seems the choice to go.

 

[DeadBattery]

I use something else, it is 80gb.
It works like a charm, nothing ever went wrong.

 

[gamingevolved]

I am going with Western Digital. Their hard drives provide better performance and life expectancy over Maxtor.

And yes I agree, Maxtor makes a good paper weight.

 

[TechAsh]

I normally use Western Digital drives, they seem to be very reliable (I've not had one fail and I've had one for about 6 years).
I've currently got 5 of their drives:
A 250GB in my Topfield PVR.
2 250GB in my desktop PC
1 500GB external attached to a Linksys NAS thing
and 1 160GB in an old Desktop.

I also have 2 40GB Maxtor drives which are quite good.

 

[iholla]

To me there is not really much difference. Most of you are discussing the heat issue but as long as you have the right kind of cooling in your block, then there should be no problem. A couple of extra fans with a sucking tube are usually enough to do the trick.

The issue of speed or performance depends on the characteristics of the drive you have bought.

How much is the r.p.m? Cylinder/Sector read rate per sec? per min? How much Cache memory? power requirements e.t.c

Otherwise, i have used WD, SeaGate, Samsung and Maxtor. I have to say I am partial to WD Drives.

 

[chisaku]

I'm not really sure about what to say, as I'm not very sure about what my computer contains. (I don't want to lose my guarantee, only three more years...) My HD has worked pretty well, but sometimes it jams up.

 

[whitebus]

I've been ordering nothing but the WD 10krpm Enterprise drives. Expensive, but I trust them to outlive their warranty (five years.) May not have as much space, but I've been running them in raid-0.

For home use, you probably can't beat the Seagate's for performance/price.

 

[ashwinsinha]

Internal or external?

 

[dirtracer36]

Internal or external?

I am more concerned about the internal drives. If whomever makes a good internal, they should make an equally good external.

I have also been looking at Hitachi and Samsung.