Hard-Drive questions

[EnRich]

All you computer building junkies, I need your opinions, and why you chose what you chose. Which hard drive do you think is better, consider their all the same price.

opinions, stories, experiances?
I'll go first, the Seagates are really quite. And I've used 3 of the above, Maxtor/Western. Western being the noisest

[Xtrema]

Why buy 80GB drives when 200-250GB are only $120ish?

Seagate now owns Maxtor. Result of the merge won't be seen for years but expect more reliable drives out of Maxtor lines down the road.

Seagate also has 5yr warranty, longest in the industry. Love people who stand by their products.

But if quietness you're looking for, Samsung spinpoint is the way to go.

[Mr. Burns]

I have always been partial to Seagate.. haven't had one fail on me yet.

[EnRich]

Originally posted by Xtrema
Why buy 80GB drives when 200-250GB are only $120ish?

Seagate now owns Maxtor. Result of the merge won't be seen for years but expect more reliable drives out of Maxtor lines down the road.

Seagate also has 5yr warranty, longest in the industry. Love people who stand by their products.

But if quietness you're looking for, Samsung spinpoint is the way to go.

I keep tones of shit on my hard drive, and I find that I've never ever even come close to filling up a 80gig hard drive. Keep em votes coming guys. Can anyone else verify that spinpoint Samsung is the quietest outta these four?

[tictactoe2004]

out of those four... this is the part that had me sold.

"SATA II w/ NCQ"

that drive also has the most votes. Don't buy samsung crap, they make great DLP's but don't leave your info on a samsung hard drive.

[/////AMG]

Seagate hater here, but I still love them.
My 200GB seagate HD failed on me once, but can't complain with the 5 yr warranty!

[GQBalla]

i suggest go with seagate. most quiet and longest warrenty.

even though drives with NCQ are not needed it doesn't really do anything.

[Despair*]

Seagate gets my vote. Although I've had one fail on me already, you can't beat the 5 year warranty.

[EnRich]

I've never had a hard-drive fail on me yet, and I've never purchased a Seagate before, but I will be for the next two computers I build... You guys just take the hard-drive back to where you bought it and exhange? or send it to manufacturer?

[hampstor]

Originally posted by EnRich
You guys just take the hard-drive back to where you bought it and exhange? or send it to manufacturer?

That will depend on where you buy it from... some places will offer a replacement, some places tell you to go to the manufacturer.

[EacydeLude]

Had a brand new WD for about a month before it crapped out. My vote goes to Maxtor/Seagate!

[GQBalla]

if you buy from memory express you get a year warretny from them and than the last 4 years are from the manufacturer

[treg50]

Originally posted by Xtrema
Why buy 80GB drives when 200-250GB are only $120ish?
...

80GB drives cost less.

Brandwise? I have a WD 120GB Caviar SE, and I have no complaints. Before that I had a Maxtor, now that was noisy, but it wasn't DiamondMax. I've heard some good things about their DiamondMax line.

[arian_ma]

I've owned both the Maxtor (120 GB and 40 GB version) and the Samsung (80 GB version). I have both of them in my current computer. Both are super quiet and super reliable. But like everyone said, I've heard so many better things about seagate. I find Western Digital is just ridiculously expensive for no reason.
I'd go with the seagate or the Maxtor.

[EnRich]

whoa this wasn't even a contest

[soupey]

i used to deal with maxtor a LOT, over the last 7ish yrs i had a 40gb drive changed 3 times thru warranty...and 1 120gig drive changed once...


also have one seagate 200gb sata drive, never have an an issue with it, its only been runnin for a bit over a yr now tho

[GTS Jeff]

I've had 2 WD Caviars for 3 years that work the same as always, and they're quieter than my brand new Seagate.

[crazydriver]

always brought maxtors.. starting to get a dissapointed in their drives lately cuz of noise/heat, but never had one fail on me yet, my vote goes to seagate

[GQBalla]

ive had 2 maxtors, and 1 westren digital before and i must say my seagate barracuda is the quietest ever.

[Vagabond142]

I have always been a Maxtor guy, before their merger. Not a SINGLE maxtor drive has EVER failed on me. That is including the one I accidentally dropped from a bench top 3 feet up to a concrete floor, where it chipped the concrete but the drive was completely undamaged. That single event completely sold me on Maxtors, honestly, despite liking them before that.

Maxtor's reliability (in my experience at least) is well worth the noise penalty (my case has rubber grommets for HDD mounting so it reduces noise anyways). I've had a couple of Seagates and a whole shitload of Western Digitals fail on people who wanted them in computers I've built for them.

In all honesty, though, I'd go with either a Seagate or Maxtor 250 GB SATAII w/ NCQ from MemEx right now, as they have just done their monthly price adjustment and the HDD's are coming WAY down in price.