Whats Your Brand

Which Brand of HD you buy?

  • Seagate

    Votes: 18 51.4%

  • Western Digital

    Votes: 12 34.3%

  • Hitatchi

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Maxtor

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Samsung

    Votes: 2 5.7%
  • Total voters
    35
Twist86

Twist86

Active Member
So I asked a few people on the forum for some help picking a new hard drive. I have a 2mb 100gb PATA that after 7 years was dying (quality baby!!!!!)

So I picked up a 250gb 16mb SATA from seagate. Tho I am curious what brand you all go for and why!
 
western digitals are very very affordable in my experience, and of the three that i have, my oldest, a WD 40gb caviar, has never faltered in the slightest.
 
Seagate for me, but that's just because they've always had the best deals when I buy hard drives.
 
Seagate has lower failure rates. They also are one of the oldest HDD companies.

I have a Samsung on one of my other computers - not by choice - but I'll wait and see how long it lasts.
I have a Seagate on all the rest.
 
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i go for seagate , always have done always will , i have never had any problem with their drives at all and so i see no need to change manufacturers , i did at one time consider getting a WD raptor but i couldnt afford it
my parents computer has a samsung in it and they have had no problem with that either however it is a pretty noisy drive but it makes up for it with speed
 
My main rig runs WD drives, my backup rig runs on SCSI Seagate drives, and my home server runs on Samsungs. ALL have worked great for me. The newer Seagates are really fast, as are the WD 64000AAKS and Samsung F1's.

Notice however that I don't have any Maxtor drives currently running. That's because every Maxtor that I've ever bought ended up dying.
 
ive got a seagate thats around 11 years old, it's still kickin' i just looked at the sticker and it says warrenty is void if it experiences a shock in excess of 350 G's how do i obtain that?
 
seagate. .........hands down .
Nothing against WD. I wanted a good mechanism.
WD has always been reliable like a timex watch.
Forget Maxtor.
good choice.
 
I like seagate but know I get Samsung for all my new system I put together at work. They run fast and quite and so far no issues with them.
 
just a noob said:
ive got a seagate thats around 11 years old, it's still kickin' i just looked at the sticker and it says warrenty is void if it experiences a shock in excess of 350 G's how do i obtain that?
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Don't ask me why but when you say 350 G's I think 1.21 gigawatts from Back to the Future.
 
same as Stranglehold, depends.
but in my desktop it's a (sata) Samsung 160GB and an IDE Seagate 160GB also
 
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