Worst HDD line!

[Technoid]

Worst HDD line!

[DuRaNgO]

I've had more wd's fail than any other, usually a week or so after building it for someone

[Jammrock]

WHERE'S MAXTOR????????

Jammrock

[Gurm]

I demand a non-Quantum Maxtor choice, as they are hands-down the worst (WORST) drives ever produced.

- Gurm

[roadie]

for me it is fujitsu, the ones in laptop gave me serious problems, now i ahve a nice fast ibm one

[VJ]

hmm, difficult...

I've had a WD Caviar that crashed; all of a sudden no data, no information about partitions, nothing. So I returned the drive to the manufacturer (was still under warranty), who send it back - about 3 months later - stating "there was nothing wrong". And indeed the drive worked (and still does, but I don't trust it); apparently, the electronics are always changed upon receipt of a drive, so most likely that was the problem.

After that, I had a Quantum Atlas 10K-crash, but thanks to S.M.A.R.T., I could backup my critical data. A new drive was sent after about 3 weeks - no information about what went wrong tough.

I still have 3 Connor (420 MB), well over 8 years old and still running nicely (never had any problems with them, apart from one of them initially having incorrectly mounted factory jumpers).

My IBM Ultrastar 36LZX gives no problems (touch wood !) and performs well...

So my vote goes to WD Caviar ...
(perhaps because I lost a huge amount of data - old software I wrote, school projects, ... It crashed a few days prior to writing everything on CD - I had spent weeks arranging the folders properly )

Jörg

[CHHAS]

I've never had a hdd die on me, I even have an ancient Quantum LPS210 running as boot drive on my parents pc. In order of purchase I now own:

Quantum LPS 210 210MB
Quantum Fireball LM 1.28GB
IBM Deskstar 16GP 10GB
Maxtor DM40+ 30GB
Quantum LM+ 30GB
WD 1000JB 100GB

All running daily without problems.

This being said, I have tried to stay away from drives with bad reputations, the WD Caviars, IBM GXPs etc.

[SteveC]

Apart from an old 50mb one, I've yet to come across a Quantum drive that's lasted over 2 years.

Fujitsu for me are the #1 in reliability.

[Jammrock]

You guys probably have no idea how many times I've had conversations like:

Some Poor Schmuck: I bought this hard drive and it worked for a couple of days, now my computer won't boot.

Jammrock: What brand of HDD?

SPS: Maxtor, I got a GREAT deal!

J: Return it and get a WD.

SPS: Seriously?

J: Yes.

...2 weeks later...

SPS: I returned the Maxtor for a WD and my computer work great now.

Jammrock's List of HDD's:

The Good:

1) WD (yes they had a couple of bad batches in the late 90's, but they have been rock solid since)
2) IBM (I personally have never had an IBM drive fail on me)
3) Seagate SCSI (I had one cheetah crash, once...)

The Okay:

1) Seagate IDE
2) Fujitsu (had tons of problems in the past, but the newer stuff is okay)

The UGLY!

MAXTOR!!!!!!!!!

Jammrock

[rubank]

Western = POS

After normal shut down from XP, at the next boot the 40 GB HD was completely, irrevocably dead. Non-existant. Two months old.
Very funny.

I´ve had problems with Seagate.

I have never had any problems with Fujitsu, IBM (some of which are made by Fujitsu). A couple of old Quantums still work.

Vote=Western

rubank

[borat]

i love wd,have had no probs and my current one is real quiet
ibm have also served me very well
i have had major problems with samsung

[Wombat]

WDs seem okay these days, but the Caviar line did sucketh utterly.

[Technoid]

Sorry About the lack of more HDD choices....

I pressed the wrong button (the preview was the one I thought I had pressed)...

Mayby one of the Nice Moderators are nice enough to make the neccesary additions??

Today I have had thre WD Caviars die on me....

[xortam]

I guess I can't vote since I've never had a HDD problem since I first started working with PCs in '83. (Oops, writing that down may have just cursed me )

[Novdid]

Seems only me and Gurm voted Quantum.

One of the few things we agree with eachother on.