Best HDD manufacture?

[jellybeard999]

I like the WD AAKS drives atm

 

[setter]

western digital drives are the best ive ever used, seagate aint bad either on a side note i heard that seagate are getting rid of 900 people in one of their factorys over here. always liked their products and i knew it was helping the local economy

 

[MumboJumbo]

Issn't there a lottery with getting loud seagates?

And ive had maxtor drives die on me as well. Would never touch them again.

 

[muzzler]

always stuck with seagate here........never a problem with them

and yes, we've had our redundancy notice for next year at the segate limavady plant.
900+ jobs..a big blow to the local economy.

 

[yantorsen]

Hmm..have you been buying the WD drives from the same seller? Sometimes it's possible they have been given a terrible batch.

3 different retailers, but the same hard drive model.

 

[Kobrakai]

My order of preference:

Western Digital
Seagate
Samsung
Hitachi
Maxtor

 

[yantorsen]

My order of preference:

Western Digital
Seagate
Samsung
Hitachi
Maxtor

mine:

Seagate
Hitachi
Samsung
Maxtor
Western Digital



my mate at work advised me not to get WD drives before I built my PC because he's always had problems with them, but I didn't take his advice because everyone on these forums said WD drives are good, unfortunately I lived to regret it.

 

[lsg1r]

My order of preference (and you'll probably think me mad but I've had no issues with them)

IBM Hitachi
Seagate
Western Digital
Samsung
Others
Maxtors - hate the bloomin things

 

[Kobrakai]

My order of preference (and you'll probably think me mad but I've had no issues with them)

IBM Hitachi
Seagate
Western Digital
Samsung
Others
Maxtors - hate the bloomin things

Maxtor really do suck, I had 4 die on me in the space of 6 months. I’ve had 3 WD drives that have lasted me 4 years and counting.

 

[lsg1r]

Maxtor really do suck, I had 4 die on me in the space of 6 months. I’ve had 3 WD drives that have lasted me 4 years and counting.

Maxtor is the only brand I had fail on me, ibm have been the most stable out of the lot for me, the western digital (pre buy out) I have is sounding like its about to die

 

[Abz]

I have always used Maxtor (IDE and SATA), for about 8 years, in term of qulity its a bit noisy after a while and had one die on me on the past 8 years.

I have recently bought a Seagate 2.5", as I was told they where qulity. Never like Seagate, funny how its one of the best now.

I also used Deskstars for RAID0 (still running). Deskstars where always branded as Deathstars :S

 

[yantorsen]

tbf all of my WD's that I've had have arrived faulty, as oposed to waring out, although I'm yet to be sent one that actually works, just RMA'd my last one, got the new one on friday, and that ones faulty aswell!

 

[3t3P]

First maxtor drive 120gb is fine to be fair
2nd one for storage, 250gb, resonated from day one, it still works right now, but resonates my whole case have to have feet of tsunami dream on bubble wrap to minimise conduction & amplification through floor boards

will replace soon with a samsung spinpoint 500gb I should imagine...

 

[MumboJumbo]

tbf all of my WD's that I've had have arrived faulty, as oposed to waring out, although I'm yet to be sent one that actually works, just RMA'd my last one, got the new one on friday, and that ones faulty aswell!

sounds more like someone in the delievery keeps killing them or your killing them then.

Someone above said like they ahd 4 broken in a row or something. Im sorry but tahts either totaly taken out of proportion or they are doing something stupid with them.

 

[player]

Samsung
Western Digital
Seagate



in no particular order

 

[Pulse]

in order of preference:
Samsung
Seagate
Western Digital
Hitachi
Maxtor

all in all. Don't buy Maxtor drives, i've had 3 in the last year, and they've all broke down.

so strange, everyone says maxtors are awful yet i've had 2 (1x40GB, 1x80GB) since my 1st rig 4 years ago and still work perfectly, recently put the 80GB in my sisters shuttle, the 40GB went out of service a while ago when it got replaced with 2 250GB Samsungs, which i love as they are so silent. and in my rig thats all i demand, dont need speed. looking to get another samsung 500GB soon

 

[Slackworth]

For me it has to be either Seagate or WD.

The drives are generally quick, reliable, and offer a great all-round package without hurrendous costs.

They are also the two vendors that support OcUK the most in terms of sales and the warranties offered to customers.

 

[memyselfandi]

My order would be:

IBM
Samsung
Seagate
WD
Maxtor

but it would really depend on the specific models I was looking at, for example there were some IBM models which were nightmares which thankfully I read about in advance and avoided. Samsung would have been top but for a 500GB drive which I got last week which failed when I went to partition and format it so I get to experience their RMA process ... (phew their diag util takes a long time to run when the system is spitting out media errors).

Every Maxtor drive I have had has failed fairly quickly and a lot of friends have had issues with WD drives, (but again I would look at problems with specific models and I don't think some of my friends have enough cooling around their drives).

 

[JayMax]

I get to experience their RMA process ...

Aside from the fact it failed, but I've found Rexo to be exceptional with turnaround time and customer service, 3 days I think for my last return. I know it's a wierd thing to say but I rate Samsungs more highly due to their RMA procedure.

 

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

Apart from my close to four year old 36GB WD Raptor 'C: drive', I've only ever been a Seagate owner.

I've never seen reason to change brands in 10 years of DIY PC building. They work, they're quiet and out of the dozen or so I purchased over the years, not one has failed. Good enough for me.