Most reliable drive? Have bad IBM drives

[PinkEater]

We started using IBM 40G Deskstar drives where I work and there have been an unusually large number of problems on better than 30% of with in just a few days. We use about 100 every few months. Can anyone recommend a hard drive with facts to back it up?

Side note: DDD, IBM's (now Hitachi's) diagnostic software, covers up / hides errors by default. You need to modify the shortcut and add 'non-destructive' as a parameter if you want to see if there was a problem on first pass. Even though IDE will remap a bad sector on the fly the destructive version of their test is willing to remap a much larger quantity.

 

[paparazi]

We use IBM, Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital IDE Hard drives in our system builds.5,400's and 7,200rpm models.
Seagate Barracuda IV's and V's 40-120gig 7,200's are definately the most reliable for us (fewest returns against units sold) but not the U sries, Barracuda's only.
Reviews indicate that they are not the fastest of the 7,200 drives but give me reliability over outright speed and a bonus is that they are the quietist drive on the market. Martin
Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[Grenage]

There have been reports of some bad IBM batches of late, although I've not had any real problems with them. It oculd be luck of the draw, if you buy in bulk there is always a good chance they come from the same batch.

We mostly use Seagate in our servers (as paparazi says, very reliable), and WD in our workstations (simply because they are now on par with IBM imho and not as pricey).

 

[JAZZnSAX]

Had bad IBMs and pressured Gateway to replace them with a different manufacturer. They sent Western Digitals and I have been quite pleased. ATA 100, 7200RPM, 40G Western Digital drives, btw.

 

[PinkEater]

Thanks for the information. We have been finding out that several other companies have had bad luck with IBM. They seem to like to call the Deskstar drives 'Deathstar'.

 

[deecee]

i have used WD's, Maxtor's and Seagate. I must say i am happiest with the Seagate but the Maxtor is not far behind. I have just had bad luck with WD's. Im 1-4 in WD's

Average I guess if you play baseball! [Hammer]
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[seanform]

I had bad luck with Western Digital. Maxtor are good but now I am using Samsung and hardly had any problems

 

[drewmich]

Pink,

Did you say you had the IBM/Hitachi DDD-SI software? We lost our copy and it is a hassle getting it replaced with Hitachi now. Send me an email if you do. Thanks

Andrew Roach
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[BJDobson]

I've had two Maxtor drives fail on me in the past six months which, to me, is catastrophic. Two in six months? What are the chances? It's only me!!!

I'm going with WD next time.

Brenda