Quantum/maxtor?

[cbman]

I've RMA'ed a few maxtor's under warrenty and it hasn't been too bad... But user results may vary

I've RMA'ed a pile of Fujitsu 40GB drives in the past month.. just sent off my last batch of 5 of them... most of the ones that failed were made in Thailand.

[Alec]

I had a Quantum Bigfoot 1.2 Gb in my Pentium 150Mhz which always worked flawlessly. Quantum´s reputation IMHO is (was) very good. I never saw one fail. Maxtor became a good company recently... 4 years ago I would never buy a Maxtor drive... I own one now. WD drives are also very good. I also own a WD Caviar 4.3Gb which has proven to be very durable and reliable.

But stay well away from Fujitsu and Samsung drives.

[Dogbert]

Over the years I have seen and handled hundreds of hard disk drives. The worst company I have ever seen is none other than Western Digital. I have seen 2 hard disks fail, and later I saw 3 defected hard disks in a row from different shipments.

I had an IBM scsi Deskstar fail on me once, but in general I'm happy with IBM.
Quanum and Maxtor are two brands that I seem to be lucky with. Not a single failure, including Bigfood HDD.