What is the best Hard Disk Brand?

[Anusha]

My 320GB Maxtor is working fine too....But might buy a 500GB Samsung in the days to come (but Rs.15250 )

 

[hul2000]

Looking at these replies I guess Samsung is the best

 

[Anusha]

Looking at these replies I guess Samsung is the best

Just because you can't find Seagate or Western Digital.

 

[badtnc]

Maxtor

 

[nabil]

id go with maxtor. runner up samsung

 

[nuwa1]

i have 1 20GB Quantum Fireball hard disk, 2 40GB Maxtor Hard disks, 1 80GB Seagate Hard disk & 1 250GB Hitachi Hard disk.
From these things my favorite is 20GB Quantum Fireball Hard disk

 

[Anusha]

i have 1 20GB Quantum Fireball hard disk, 2 40GB Maxtor Hard disks, 1 80GB Seagate Hard disk & 1 250GB Hitachi Hard disk.
From these things my favorite is 20GB Quantum Fireball Hard disk

Because it is the slowest in the bunch?

 

[anurudda]

For me Western Digtal

 

[nagaya]

Maxtor is too bad ,,,, but WDigital is the best .... Sad to say we can't find any good HDD in sri lanka,,, all HDDs from china our people bring all the stuff to SL and assemble it here,,,, Compare ur OLD HDD and a new HDD u buy from the market ... see the different .....

Yeah machan we can't find good ones like Seagate or WD from here,(Quatum Fireball was also good,but it was bought by maxtor ne)all people in SL shops say Maxtor,MaxtorMaxtorMaxtorMaxtorMaxtor,
when we ask for Seagate they laugh

I had/have;

2.1GB SEAGATE 1998-2005
8.4GB SEAGATE 1999-now
20GB SAMSUNG ****-now
40GB MAXTOR 2003-2003
40GB MAXTOR 2004-2005
40GB SAMSUNG 2004-2006
250GB HITACHI 2007-now

I also use

40gb Seagate ****-now
80gb Hitachi(Laptop HDD) 2007-now

Damn on Maxtor,i lost my valuable data,so now i don't trust on any HDD,i back up on optical discs,

you know "Not the hardware is important,the data is"

 

[sheyan]

hmm

hodama maxtor thama .maxaaa....

 

[Anusha]

Yeah machan we can't find good ones like Seagate or WD from here,(Quatum Fireball was also good,but it was bought by maxtor ne)all people in SL shops say Maxtor,MaxtorMaxtorMaxtorMaxtorMaxtor,
when we ask for Seagate they laugh

I had/have;

2.1GB SEAGATE 1998-2005
8.4GB SEAGATE 1999-now
20GB SAMSUNG ****-now
40GB MAXTOR 2003-2003
40GB MAXTOR 2004-2005
40GB SAMSUNG 2004-2006
250GB HITACHI 2007-now

I also use

40gb Seagate ****-now
80gb Hitachi(Laptop HDD) 2007-now

Damn on Maxtor,i lost my valuable data,so now i don't trust on any HDD,i back up on optical discs,

you know "Not the hardware is important,the data is"

There was a time when Maxtor was very unreliable. That's not there anymore. Also, Maxtor is not inspired by Seagate's technology and experience, as Seagate bought Maxtor last year or so.

 

[draco]

maxtor

 

[Kalindugayan]

Maxtor

 

[draco]

hitachi

 

[henderson]

seagate

 

[GNS]

Hitachi....

 

[zCexVe]

awww HDDS.I love em.I have like 30 burnt down HDDs at home.
mm I think the Seagates are best.WD comes in 2nd for me.I have lots of Diamond max8/9 Maxtors lying around as those were burnt down a lot .:S
Quantums are good but quatum copied maxtors sux.New Maxtors are good too with seagate.
Mainly It depends on luck how HDDs perform.My 40 GB maxtor which I got with lifetime warranty (I sold it :S) still runs really well,Have travelled to many places on bikes,have more than 7000 hours to account but still dont make a single noise.Damn me I sold it :S :S But the Hitachi SATAII 250 GiB Which I only got from CMB to home Had a cooler with two baller bearing fans for its safe and always kept under 37C,never moved -It died after 10 months. So Its kinda luck with HDDS.And Damn hitachis have a damn noise when it starts so always I get a herat attack when the PC boots.:S Will never have a Hitachi again.And I'm afraid we will see either.Hitachi GST went on some agreement with Samsung for HDDs dont know what will the future be.Oh just one,they are going to release 1.5 TB HDD in the 2Q,2008.
Cooling is good for HDDs as anything.

 

[E.A.R.THARANGA]

For me Western Digtal