Hard drive maker?

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aristoquack

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Hi,
I'm building a non-gaming computer & was wondering does it make a difference which hard drive manufacturer I choose? I see that WD seems to be the most expensive & Seagate & Maxtor are a bit cheaper. I want to get a 500g drive & was wondering if anybody has any feedback on the drive makers. Thanks.
Stewart
 
They are all good. People will try and tell you stories about X manufacturers drives being terrible and prone to failure but what it really means is they had one fail on them and refuse to buy them anymore. Some of the longest living drives I've ever had were cheap drives that people said were crap. I would just find one where the price looks good and go with it, hard drives generally come with up to 5 year warranties now so they are usually pretty reliable.
 
I think the Western Digital 500GB won a test in a magazine over here recently because of it's read/write speeds, you're talking a 1-2MB/s advantage though over the Seagate. Also, Maxtor are now generally seen to be the cheaper Seagate drives since the latter took them over. Like Cromewell said though, most drives are the same.
 
Samsung drives are actually quite good. They had some very respectible reviews and I think they were on top of newegg's 500GB drives in terms of ratings.
 
I do not know Fujitsu manufacturer 3.5 inches HDD or not if yes than Fujitsu should be a more reliable HDD
 
cureently all my 2.5 inches HDD are Toshiba, Hitachi and Fujitsu, all these are very reliable drives had been using it for the past 5 years. still going well
 
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