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Forum: The Classroom Topic: worst hard drive brand started by: CatKnight Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 26 2002,09:21
Personally I've had the worst experience with western digitals. They ALWAYS have bad sectors and other problems out of the box. All of the ones I've owned/worked with anyway. That being 7/8 actually. My previous two hard drives were maxtors, no probs, and now I have IBM, works dandy.
Posted by DuSTman on Jan. 26 2002,12:47
I've 2 IBMs with no problems, but I hear there are a lot of complaints of people with failing 75GXPs. Other than that they have a good reputation.
Posted by Spydir on Jan. 26 2002,20:36
every WD I've had works fine, my seagate's pretty nice, and I got a fujitsu that's pretty nice... otherwise, I haven't had more hd's then that.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Jan. 26 2002,22:20
WD's suck. Ever heard "that Western Digital sound?" It's sounds like a ping-pong ball, and it's the sound of a Western Digital throwing one of its drive heads. Goodbye, dear data!Fujitsu and IBM have served me well over the years. Just make sure to provide adequate cooling for your supa-1337 7200rpm IBM drive. (True of ALL 7200+ drives, actually.) Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 26 2002,23:41
3 people said richard already hehe
Posted by Wiley on Jan. 27 2002,00:06
Seagates rule, I've never had one fail on me. I used to OEM Quantums all the time though. Right now I have two IBMs, two Seagates, a FUjitsu, a Maxtor and a Western Digital that have been running non-stop for a few years. I just don't like the noise of the IBMs they're a bit on the clicky side.
Posted by Vigilante on Jan. 27 2002,00:15
I've got a 6 year old Quantum 3.2gb and a 4 year old 10gb Western Dig runnin fine in secondary machine. 60gb 7200rpm ata100 Western Dig in my current rig. *shrug*
Posted by Rshias on Jan. 27 2002,07:44
Fujitsu and Seagate rock the casba. Never had one fail.Overall, I've had the most problems out of Western Digital. IBM's are a close second. They really dropped the ball with those 75GXP's. It'll take awhile before I trust an IBM again. Posted by Jynx on Jan. 28 2002,21:05
Interesting how Maxtor is up there...I've had nothing but good luck with them!I just got a new 30G 7200 rpm, and it nice, fast, and quiet. w00t! Posted by Hellraiser on Jan. 28 2002,21:46
The hell I've voted! Something's wierd here, there are several polls that say I've voted when I never have. Anyone wanna clarify that one for me?
Posted by veistran on Jan. 29 2002,08:13
"a lot" would be an understatement, there's a fuckload. Way too many to just be people trating the drives poorly, imo it's a manufacturing defect. Posted by DuSTman on Jan. 29 2002,08:51
Yeah. And IBM seems to be claiming its some problem in the operating system, which seems a bit far fetched to me (people still are reporting failures on alternative OSes).Obviously, this worries me a bit, as one of mine's a 75gxp. I do find it interesting western digital is heading up the graph as the worst, I thought they were supposed to kick ass. Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 29 2002,08:54
actually, dell tech support told my friend, who has had his last two ibm's die on him, along with his room mate's, that the problem is that the drives don't clear their cache correctly, or something to that effect. Eventually the motor/heads died and made a bunch of noise in the process.
Posted by veistran on Jan. 29 2002,09:01
that'd definately be a manufacturing/design defect.
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