Hard disk brands to buy or avoid?

[Arthur]

My Seagate is playing up, if I leave it on for a few days I get all sorts of weird errors. When it's cold it's fine. This is my second Seagate to give problems.

Anyone else had problems with any particular brand? Or a brand they've never had problems with?

[ADIDAS]

I ONLY use IBM, Maxtor Diamond, and Western Digital for IDE HDD.

Hope this helps.

:)

[mnh]

I had the same problem with my last comp, when the comp have be on for 1-2 hour, did it come out with a lot of errors.
I tried everything...but nothing worked, so I just bought a new comp

[gse]

seagate has diagnostic tools you could use to check the drive for bad blocks, if it's a drive problem, could be million other reasons

[Arthur]

The problem is where the bad blocks turn up - they seem to be the "high-traffic" areas of the disk, which kill windows with VFAT errors and various other blue "screens of death".

I gave up after the 2nd re-install-- now when I get bad block errors after a windows crash I just switch off without fixing them (if I fix them it breaks windows because of the lost data that was in the bad block), let it cool a few hours, after which Windows runs fine and scandisk can't find any disk errors.

[gse]

replace the drive ;)

[Arthur]

Hence the title "Hard disk brands to buy or avoid?"

:)

[gse]

seagate is good brand and I know they very quick about rma. But hardware is hardware and can fail regardless who made it. You can try IBM, also good stuff

[ProgGod]

Only consider seagate or IBM, i could tell you about the hundreds of bad disks we have had with the other brands.

[donger]

i've had excellent luck with seagate drives, and *gasp* quantums (which i actually do think IS luck). I've seen fujitsus & WDs fail right and left, so I try to stay away from those.

hope this helps
donger

[Much0S]

only good drive out there: Maxtor's Quantum line. I've had over 150 quantum discs NONE of them have failed. On the other hand i *do* have had western digitals failing, seagate's failing and the older maxtor one's failing (before they took over quantum technology).

Ofcourse there's a part luck, but there's a part quality as well. Best to my knowledge quantum discs are the most expensive discs out there, and seagate's are cheapest.

I know some ppl with good stories on seagate as well, but i've never had any luck with them.

IBM's are midclass, neither very good, nor very bad.

[RaiDeN]

I agree with Muchos..

Maxtor Quantum is very very good.

[emgee]

i have 2 seagates in my box,one of them is 2 years old,the other one 6 months.
i use the computer more than haevy,and never ever got a problem til yet with seagate.

you give your computer sometimes an shut if you are not happy?
you fixed the drives?
earthquakes in your area?
a girlfriend who gives your puter sometimes an shut?
:D

[wired1]

Seagate and IBM work the best, Western Digitals failure rate is too high... Im not sure about Maxtors now, but they used to suck...

[DialerNET]

Originally posted by donger:
<STRONG>i've had excellent luck with seagate drives, and *gasp* quantums (which i actually do think IS luck).r</STRONG>

Why do you say that?
I almost ALWAYS buy Quantums, and never ever had one fail. I have one that's been running for years and not a sign of even a bad sector.
I've tried alot, and Quantums (the Fireball range) have been the most reliable for me.

Jason.

[DemonWolfe]

I now have 5 PC's in my office and they all have Maxtors in them.

Seagate is always one of, if not the, most sold drives world wide.

Doesn't make them quality though.

When I ran a PC repair shop, I replaced more Seagates than anything. Also, I would never mail order a Seagate drive, because UPS bangs them around to much and they are very impact sensitive.

Want a good deal on a hardrive, go here: http://www.pricewatch.com/2/26/78-15.htm

:D