Storage forum: Poll: Which brand of hard drive do you trust most?

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I got the wrong message. So my response was, I don't have a clue. So the resulta are oing to be flawed

Of Seagate, Maxtor and WD, only Seagate drives have never given me any trouble. My Maxtors (4 in all) had a habit of playing up when they got too warm - probably because the circuit board just sat on a set of contacts and flexed with the heat. My WD's have had about a 30% failure rate. Seagates? No failures. Most of these drives are in use 24 hours a day, and I've even had Seagate 500GB and 750GB drives in those fan-free external USB cases with no problem at all.

in the CNET community newsletter.

Sorry about that guys! The weekend was calling way too early!

I've corrected in the Newsletter archive page, so you can vote:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4002-7600_7-6781419.html

-Lee

SEAGATE IS THE BEST because of 3 little words: Five Year Warranty. They also have the highest ratings (that I know of) for impact threshold. So you may be able to throw them on the ground and have them still work; although, I wouldn't recommend it: it voids the warranty! Not to mention the fact that every single Western Digital drive I've got now has a screwed up track 0, which means I can no longer use them as a master drive to put windows on.

On another note I hope the IT guy(s) responsible for mislabeling the topic have now been FIRED! Now, whenever I read your emails I'm going to have to make sure you've labeled the topics right, basically make sure you know what you're doing. So shouldn't I be paid for doing your job?

Seems like someone changed the poll question but not the answer selections or vice versa. The question that headed the poll that I received read:

Which Microsoft Windows version would you consider the worst?
(Please click on button to vote)

Fujitsu (Why?)
Hitachi (Why?)
IBM (Why?)
Maxtor (Why?)
Samsung (Why?)
Seagate (Why?)
Western Digital (Why?)
Other (Which brand?)
I have no idea

The email asks what version of Windows do I consider the worst. That would obviously be Vista, but for some reason all of the answer choices are hard disk manufacturers?!?

Oh, I see, the question was supposed to be which brand of hard disk do I prefer. Well, I have never had a problem in the sense of drive failure/lost data. However, if I had to choose a brand, it would be Western Digital, because they have the best compatibility, meaning they work with pretty much any computer or motherboard. I have a Western Digital hard disk in this computer, and I am very happy with it.

I like Seagate drives. That's because Seagate makes them well, and because they have posted a utility that makes it possible to work on them fairly easily if they get off-track. I'm speaking of "Sea-Tools." You can usually get the problem sorted out with that utility. It also works on Maxtor drives. I like the Western Digital drives too, but WD's utility is nowhere near as potent and useful as Sea-Tools.

If we are speaking of bad versions of Windows, how about Vista? It is currently making people crazy.

Best version of Windows? I like Windows 2000 Professional for its stability, easy networking capability, and its good looks. If only it could support the huge hard drives, like Windows XP SP1 and SP2 and Vista.

I used to be a WD loyalist. However after the 2nd WD HD meltdown in 2 years, I switched allegiance to Seagate. Their 5 year warranty is definitely a major reason, price and performance is another. As for WD, I am also not happy with the warranty turnaround. Took over 3 weeks to get my HD replaced, but to give them credit, they upgraded me from a SATA to SATAII (same capacity) to speed up the process a bit. However, meanwhile I had picked up a Seagate Baracuda from a local merchant. Now I have 2 Seagates for my dual boot machine and I am using the WD as temp storage for misc downloads. We'll see if my confidence in WD will be regained.

U've got to be kidding me!!!!!! They are so far behind they cannot see their behind, they are blind, and evidently mirrors are all they are interested in....

I've built a lots of computers and used many types of hard drive's but I must say IBM drive have served me very well unlike the others. And now that Hitachi has purchased them their even better with newer technology built into them. They are very smooth running very little noise, If I were to rate hard drive manufactures it would be in this order Hitachi,Western Digital,Seagate,Maxtor. But this is my opinion only I have been a tech for 30 years I worked for a major company all this time, when we got into computers in 1982 my company sent me to school for this type of training it needed to stay competitive so I think I know a little about quality.

I have lost two (count 'em, 2!) Western Digital hard drives, complete with all my data, when they were less than a year old.

I got 'em at different times and they were different sizes, yet they both died without any indication whatsoever; right in the middle of garden-variety computing tasks (no intense database work, video editing, or CD-burning chores were being performed at the time) they just crashed without warning - the first I knew of it was the BSoD, which was also the last thing I knew, as well.

In both cases no data could be recovered from the discs, not even professionally.

Now that's what I call crummy, snake-bitten, turd-rate hard drives!

Give me Seagate any old day, after that nightmarish experiece.

The worst windows ever was windows millenium edition.
95 had it's initial issues, as did 98, and XP was almost as bad as ME was, til SP2 came out. Vista of course has it's own issues.
For some reason, I dont remember the issues with windows as bad with 3.11 and earlier. Does anyone else?

Now for the hard drive question:
About 10 years ago, I purchased a Maxtor H/D. In those days, you paid $300+ for a "large h/d" approximately 20-30 gigs. It was horrible to install. And, once installed, within days, the plates started slapping.
So, I exchange it. Same thing.
Last time i trusted Maxtor. I then exchange it for a Western Digital. Easy install. Actually, the drivers installed so quick, I wondered if it actually installed correctly.
Problem with WD, however, is every WD i ever owned, went out within 2 years.
Im using Seagate right now, so, we'll see. 5 year warranty sounds cool to me. If it doesnt last, then i'll move on. I have no loyalty to hard drive companies.

maxtor because i have been use hitashi and western digital and i found it thae best one