which hdd brand is best durability?

which hdd brand is best durability?

  • hitachi

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • seagate

    Votes: 11 31.4%

  • western digital

    Votes: 20 57.1%

  • fujitsu

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • maxtor

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • samsung

    Votes: 3 8.6%
  • Total voters
    35
bomberboysk said:
lol, and you could have got an Intel ssd these days for around that price:P
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The Intel Solid 80 gigabyte State Drive is the next piece of equipment I am wanting. With read speeds over three times faster than my current hard drive it is sure to speed up my system. Until the price gets below $100 I'm not even going to buy. I can't believe anyone would dish out $350 for one.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Have you noticed the SSD's have no cache?

I've heard this creates a bit of a lag or delay when they're accessed.
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That isn't what I've heard about the Intel Solid State Drives. I have read that the Intel drives have very fast read speeds (over 200 megabytes per second). But who wants to pay $350 for an 80 gigabyte hard drive?
 
I guess really what I would look at is customer service satisfaction and warranty. I have had several Maxtor drives go bad on me over the years but I was always able to advance RMA them over the interwebs under warranty. No questions asked, and they delivered quick.

I voted for Samsung, not because I think they are the best but they are the ones I have been using in my builds last couple of years. Cheap, and so far they are great. I never once had a single problem with them. The may not perform as much but I don't do anything really with my rigs other than simple things where disk I/O would hardly make a difference.
 
Read/write speeds are one thing, and cache is another.

I did hear they would be putting RAM onboard to counter
this "lag" effect.
 
Born n' raised on Western Digital. They rarely ever give up. I had one that was failing horribly (would take hours to just format), it actually made it through and installed 98.

Then it crashed.

But I've had all positive experiences with WD. No failures yet *knock on wood*
 
oscaryu1 said:
Born n' raised on Western Digital. They rarely ever give up. I had one that was failing horribly (would take hours to just format), it actually made it through and installed 98.

Then it crashed.

But I've had all positive experiences with WD. No failures yet *knock on wood*
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You were born in a hard drive? How did your mom fit in there to give you birth? Or, wait a minute...you are a robot aren't you?
 
tlarkin said:
You were born in a hard drive? How did your mom fit in there to give you birth? Or, wait a minute...you are a robot aren't you?
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He said born "on" Western Digital, which means he was born on the WD research facility. Definitely a robot.
 
Well first of all, Seagate and Maxtor are the same company now.

In my experiences, Seagate is the best. They haven't failed me yet and I've had several WD drives fail on me.
 
bomberboysk said:
Hmm, dont think there would be that much of a need for cache when you have access speeds of 0.1ms...
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cache is still faster, and seek times get longer when more data is on the drive. Plus the I/O is a bit slower than cache.

Soon, solid state will become cheap and fast enough we won't use mechanical hard drives anymore.
 
tlarkin said:
cache is still faster, and seek times get longer when more data is on the drive. Plus the I/O is a bit slower than cache.

Soon, solid state will become cheap and fast enough we won't use mechanical hard drives anymore.
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true, especially on the last part. In the next few years, only thing your gonna see hard drives are for large storage and cheaper budget machines, most mainstream rigs will be running ssd's.
 
bomberboysk said:
True, especially on the last part. In the next few years, only thing your gonna see hard drives are for large storage and cheaper budget machines, most mainstream rigs will be running SSDs.
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The biggest bottleneck in most modern systems is the hard drive (as you know). 60 to 80 megabyte transfer speeds if I am not mistaken. I sure can't wait for solid state disk hard drive technology to mature and come down in price. 200 megabyte read speeds and higher sure sound great to me.
 
Nevakonaza said:
Well i would say that Seagate is the best..but thats my opinion.

Ive had a WD fail me:cool:...but cant say there not good just because one fails.
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Yeah I would go with seagate. All the seagate HDD's I have had have been amazing and I have a WD that a computer will read but it wont let boot so it has to be a slave drive
 
It would be nice if they could figure out how to make normal RAM non-volatile. I would gladly pay a few hundred even for a small SSD that can do 8GB/s.
 
gamerman4 said:
It would be nice if they could figure out how to make normal RAM non-volatile. I would gladly pay a few hundred even for a small SSD that can do 8GB/s.
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Well, there are ramdrives out there that use a battery, but they can only hold data for a few hours at best..
 
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