Best Hard Drive Manufacturer

[MkII]

We've had a whole batch of bad maxtors in the past, and a hell of a lot fail a couple of years ago - about 20 of 60

 

Really liking WD and rate Seagate highly

[john]

Maxtors are godawful things. Very large failure rates are not uncommon. Mind you, I was also a victim of the massive disaster that Fujitsu Seimens dumped upon us and I also lost 3 years work when my IBM drive packed up 5 years ago.

God DB, I never knew I could post as you Thats my exact same experience!

 

I got a load of Stone Computers with those duff Fujitsu Hard Drives in them, so they needed to be changed GRRRR, Maxtors for me have about a 90% failure rate! Yes thats 90%. I lost a lot of coursework and files when my 1 day old Hitachi/IBM Hard Drive Died (yes it was from the Deathstar era!) so all in all you have had the same luck as me.

 

As I said earlier up the thread, Western Digital for me 0% failure rate at work, and out of about 60 i've personally fitted i've had 1 fail and that was probably not helped by me dropping the PC down the stairs in the first place when I fell down them. Also Segates with the 5 year warranty as standard is good, it will either bit Segate in the Ass in 3 years time when they all start dying or it will be a very good move by them to increase sales.

[ICTsupport]

Maxtor drives are now from the seagate factories ...

[Busybub]

I increasingly find myself looking for Samsung drives whenever we need additional ones.

 

They are reasonably cheap compared to others and run very quietly if my system is anything to go by (I run mine with the main case wide open). Got six in one of our servers and has been running without a problem.

 

Only drive manufacturer we have that hasn't had a failure yet.

[gcheeseman]

I wish you the best of luck withthe Samsung drives in your server - you're going to need it!!

 

No Samsung drives are certified for server use - or guaranteed to work properly hanging off a RAID controller.

 

Personally, I like Samsung kit - but no way would their drives go near our servers.

 

I'd be interested to know how many of the problems listed in this topic are caused by desktop drives being installed in a server - it's false economy.

 

WD for Enterprise SATA (server drives, not desktop drives), Fujitsu for SCSI & SAS. We had some problems with WD, but their tech. support was spot on and a firmware fix had the problem solved.

[Geoff]

Google released a paper on hard drive reliability a few days ago. It's worth a read for those of you considering which drives to buy.

 

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

[MkII]

But it doesn't name drives Geoff (posted it on it's own thread here too)

[maniac]

I've got a very old pentium P75 machine in my workshop at home, only use it for playing MP3s over the network from my main machine. It's 12 years old this year!

 

It has a 1GB WD drive that's still going strong, and at the last check still had no bad sectors! (yes I have had it since new, just don't want to part with it as it was my first ever PC!)

 

Mike.

[TekkyMatt]

Running maxtors and seagates here, we get a drive fail once a year on average but R5 to the rescue.

[bazuk]

ibm i think

 

baz

[craiglay]

Seagate here, I have built systems recently and have had problems with Maxtors arriving with large amounts of bad sectors and not formatting (Full formatting first time always)

 

I deal with a large amount of Elonex hardware in my schools and most seem to have 5400rpm WD that have a knack of becomming very noisy and failing. Wack a Seagate 7200.10 in and get a performance hike too!!

 

I have an NT4 server put in a fair few years ago with a 18Gb 10k Fujitsu SCSI and its still going strong. Decommisioned now though.

 

Craig