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Best drives on the market Digg Topic • Tag topic on On del.icio.us • Technorati Search • Post to Slashdot You are currently in Hardware, Internet, Networking, Comms and Security What is the best hard drive manufacturer? Western Digital  38% 8 Seagate  9% 2 Maxtor  23% 5 IBM  9% 2 Hitachi  19% 4 Samsung  0% 0 Voted : 0 Total Votes : 21 This poll does not expire Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:32 pm Reply and quote this post From most poeple, Seagate has the best quality hard drives on the market.  Which do you think?  (this is not a poll cause im an idiot) Contributed by applemachome, iVirtua Active Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:48 pm Reply and quote this post Quote: (this is not a poll cause im an idiot) I added it for you. WD is what I prefer. Seagate are the quietest, but are very slow in benchmarks and in terms of speed, seek times, etc. Contributed by Predator, Guest 510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:27 pm Reply and quote this post I voted MAXTOR. Western Digital used to be high quality, but not anymore right now. Maxtor already won an award for having the best price/performance HD's. :) Contributed by Super XP, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:05 pm Reply and quote this post well i just tested mine and got 278 MBPS. any maxtor out there able to beet that ? Contributed by PCGEEK, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:10 pm Reply and quote this post Probably not. The Raptors are the Best so far, but I had bad experiences with WD. I sent back problematic HD to them, so they sent me a brand new one. Yaa Right, it was used, & they denied it. :angry: So, for now, No More WD. I?m looking @ the 2 x Maxtor 200GB 16MB cache @ 7200RPM SATA300 running in Raid 0. :rolleyes: Contributed by Super XP, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:19 pm Reply and quote this post i just needed somthing to keep up with my pc4300. Contributed by PCGEEK, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:21 pm Reply and quote this post Quote: i just needed somthing to keep up with my pc4300. oh, I see. Well, the Raptors are the way to go. 10,000 RPM is fast. :rolleyes: Contributed by Super XP, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:41 am Reply and quote this post Quote: Western Digital used to be high quality, but not anymore right now. I wouldn't be so sure. Statistics actually show that WD has the lowest percentage of defective hard drives when compared with any other HDD-manufacturing company.  ;) But Maxtor is a good choice as well. Contributed by Predator, Guest 510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:26 am Reply and quote this post what's the life expectancy on the raptors? Contributed by Jack whoKnows?, iVirtua Active Contributor 194 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:01 am Reply and quote this post Quote: what's the life expectancy on the raptors? With the Raptors WD gives 5 year warenty, :) Contributed by Super XP, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:44 am Reply and quote this post well some one with the 16 meg cash maxtors on raid 0 test them lets see how they stack up. Contributed by PCGEEK, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:35 pm Reply and quote this post I would still go for 2 Raptors in RAID0; however, I agree with SuperXP that Western Digital should increase the cache and perhaps the size and still keep the 10,000RPM. Contributed by Predator, Guest 510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:07 pm Reply and quote this post Western Digital, IBM, & Hitachi. I am thinking about placing my 2 x 320GB WD Caviar SATA's into RAID1. After all, I really do not need all this extra space. :) Contributed by PCGURU, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor 100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:26 am Reply and quote this post what ever happened to Hitachi and Fujitsu? Contributed by Jack whoKnows?, iVirtua Active Contributor 194 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View Profile • Send Private Message • Back to Top Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:41 pm Reply and quote this post Hitachi makes good hard drives as well. Fujitsu, I am not too sure about. Before I had my 80GB Western Digital Caviar, I had a 180GB Hitachi IDE drive 7200RPM, which I got for 70$. But, then one of my friends found an 80GB Western Digital 7200RPM for 20$ (with rebate of course) and so, my parents made me return the 180GB & buy the 80GB one. Contributed by Predator, Guest 510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top Related Articles Nintendo Drives Revival of Japanese Market Five DVD-ROM Drives Roundup Alienware assimilates Blu-ray drives Four 1TB Hard drives reviewed Online advertising drives Google Killing SATA hard drives Samsung confirms Spinpoint drives Blue Ray disk drives coming! Page 1 of 3 Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next

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