Most reliable IDE hard drive?

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I am looking to put an IDE hard drive in the Netgear LAN enclosure and looking at around 300gb of storage. As it will be used to store important backup files, I need it to be reliable. Seagates have generally done me very well, shall I go for one of them?
 
To be honest hard drive reliability is very much down to personal experience. Personally I wouldn't touch a Maxtor if you paid me but other people think they're great. Conversley people won't touch IBM/Hitachis whereas I don't use anything else.

If you've had good experiences with Seagate in the past then go with them.
 
own(ed) a lot of hdds in past and now :
About 3 seagates 2 died, one couse of personal mistake tho (short circuited bottom of hdd with another hdd) and one that actually really let me down (corrupted partition after some time)
about 3 WD, 0 died, 1 still using
1 hitachi, still lives&using it
4 maxtors, 0 died, 1 still using, but in poorest condition accordiong to speedfan out of my 3 hdd's
No exp. with samsung's

I'd get either a WD or a Seagate, or if cheaper a hitachi.
 
Samsung Spinpoints, used them for mission critical rigs for years and haven't had a failure, prolly close to 200 builds at my job (i reccommended em) and close to 250 for my client builds, Seagate has failed me and WD failed me, hate to stereotype but Maxtors do seem to fail too much for my comfort. Seagate are 2nd for reliability imo but the samsungs have proven themselves to me.
 
Owned my Samsung Spinpoint for over a year now and never had any problems at all with it but cant comment on other brands as I havent had any ;)
 
I got saegate that are well over 5 years old, running perfectly still.

Only one with bad sectors is an old 10GB that got dropped out of my pocket on my bike @ 60 odd MPH, but its still being used.

My latest Seagate is a 250GB SATA and thats been a little problematic in that it seems to be perfect until I copy a load of files from / to it and then the PC would switch off??? - Does this on all my NF3 and NF4 boards, and originally I htought it could be the BIOS because seagate have been so perfect for me, the last thing I would have thought, is the Drive!

WD are nothing but junk for me, and I would rather not bother and hold out till I get a seagate

Maxtor are a funny breed.
Their older 40GB Drives I have had one for somethign like 4 years now, and I used it for Imesh, Ares, and now Bittorrent, its my Download drive, and its been downloading and uploading half a dozen files non-stop in all this time, like I say roughly about 4 years non-stop and 24/7 too!

I would never bother with any other drive as they are so reliable.

A year or so after I realised how good those drives were, I bought a number of them to use in the kids PCs and they are still 100% spot on 3 years later.

However, the number of bigger drives I have had that have died or are dying, is ridiculous! - I am using a 120GB as a temporary drive for a bit and its been ok for a few months now, but as soon as I get off my bum, its being replaced, probably with a Hitachi or Samsung.

So, if you only need a 40GB, then the Maxtors have proven themselves to me, but any bigger and its seagate.

Only recently I have had an 80GB Hitachi SATA and thats a bit creaky I have to say, but so far seems to be ok. Its nice & fast too.

I got a mate who swears by Samsung, but I myself have had no experience with them, but as you see from previous posts, others like them, so its very likely thats my next option too!

WD however, are fowl ( Even though I have a couple of Raptors ) that are so far great, other models in their range I find unreliable to the point of being offensive to call them good.
 
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