New hard drive suggestions please

MartinBen · 6 Feb 2008 at 19:38

I have a Samsung T166 hard drive that looks like it is about to fail on me so I have quickly copied stuff off it.

Question is now what to get?

I have been reading how W/D do not seem to be much good and am worried about getting a new Samsung.

Hitachi, Seagate or Maxtor (didn't Seagate buy them recently?)

rpstewart · 6 Feb 2008 at 19:42

WD AAKS or Seagate 7200.11

Maxtor are basically finished as a manufacturer (bought by Seagate) and Hitachi are lagging behind in the 3.5" arena.

MartinBen · 6 Feb 2008 at 19:48

Thanks for reply.

I was thinking of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 500GB.

smsmasters · 6 Feb 2008 at 20:19

How long have you had the t166 for and was it purchased from OCUK? I'm worried as I have one too.

balls · 6 Feb 2008 at 20:25

smsmasters said:
How long have you had the t166 for and was it purchased from OCUK? I'm worried as I have one too.

Just because one drive dies doesn't mean that all are going to. I've had multiple drive failures from multiple drive manufaturers. If I went on that basis the only company I would buy drives from now would be samsung only ever had one drive, a Hj401 and its been going strong for about a year or so

As RPS mentionned, the main two drive manufacturers are Seagate and WD atm, however for the quiet lovers the samsung drives have always been top notch, but the fault statistics for all of those three are going to be relatively similar

MartinBen · 6 Feb 2008 at 20:27

smsmasters said:
How long have you had the t166 for and was it purchased from OCUK? I'm worried as I have one too.

I purchased it from another company - not OCUK - and got it about 14months ago so probably out of warranty.

My other 2 hard drives are also Samsungs - once of which is 3-4 years old now and going strong (touch wood!)