Western Digital, Seagate or other??

[Rhombus65]

I recently had a Western Digital HDD fail and now need to replace it.

My question is do I buy another Western Digital or is Seagate better or maybe some other company.

I appreciate any and all opinions.

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing..." -Albert Einstein

 

[Kiernan]

Maxtor has a new 16 MB cache HDD for ATA and SATA. I'm running one now and have been nothing but impressed.

BTW, this Maxtor is a replacement for a 200 GB Western Digital that died. My WD was still under warranty through them and they're replacing it for me for free. You may want to check on their website to see if you can get it replaced.

 

[mainegeek]

Rhombus65,

My first choice would be Seagate and Western as my second choice.

 

[stduc]

I've had nothing but grief from both Seagate & IBM (Hitachi) drives. I've also had western digitals fail on me. I've come to the conclusion that its the luck of the draw!

 

[DragonQ0105]

I prefer Maxtor simply because I got a Maxtor drive in my first ever PC (AMD 100MHz, 8MB of RAM, 518MB HDD), and it worked perfectly, and I've used Maxtor ever since.

Here are 2 of my recommendations:

Diamondmax10 (160GB, SATA, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache) - £58:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=78243

Diamondmax10 (250GB, SATA, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache) - £101:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=89525

 

[norty303]

There's a very long thread on here about preferences on drives. Seagate figure very well in it with only one person (iirc) expressing serious problems with them. I've been building PC's with them since 2000 with them and had no failures to date. Nice and quiet too.

 

[Rhombus65]

Thanks to all that replied.

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing..." -Albert Einstein

 

[pmonett]

I have been using Maxtor, Seagate and WD since 1992. All of these companies have good and bad products. I agree with stduc, it's more luck than anything else.
At the moment, I use Maxtor drives (for the 16MB cache and the liquid bearings). Reliable and silent is how I would qualify them.
I have a Seagate drive that dates back from 1995 and still works like a charm. It's a 30GB drive I use to test Linux releases.
I have a WD Caviar that's older than that. It's only 8GB (that's how old it is), and it still works fine.
I've also had a Seagate and a WD die on me, and they were "younger" models.
I believe that the one important thing when buying a HDD is to go for a brand name and not skimp on the money. Seagate, Maxtor, IBM and WD are all important players, I only buy from them.

Pascal.