Hardware Advice

[spartak]

Need a new HDD. What do you recon? Maxtor or Seagate?

Cast your votes here but its prefer explanations of why one is better then the other.

Cheers

[Kassiopeia]

I think Seagates come with a longer warranty. The failure rates on drives are so low that any significant difference between different manufacturers is anecdotal, methinks.

[FrostyBoy]

Seagate of course.

[Jon Miller]

Do whatever one is cheaper..

JM

[Jon Shafer]

I have an external Seagate and it's awesome.

[Urban Ranger]

Get one with a bigger buffer.

[Lorizael]

Seagate is definitely a cooler name.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Seagate is definitely a cooler name.

Blasphemy! Banana is the coolest name.

[spartak]

Igot a maxtor in the end cos that was all the shop had. Typical Denmark

[Urban Ranger]

What? They've only got one computer shop in your city?

[notyoueither]

I favour hammers when it comes to hardware.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by spartak
Igot a maxtor in the end cos that was all the shop had. Typical Denmark

Congratulations. You just bought a drive from Seagate.

[Silver14]

All hard drives are of equal crappiness. Its really a hit or miss when you get the drive if its decent. Quality control has hit the fan awhile back IMO. They can make bigger drives cheaper but its not uncommon to find bad blocks out the rear on new drives a few weeks in.

I used to work in a call center replacing failed hard drives, 80 pin server drives that have higher quality then the sata/ide ones and they were still crap. At least with scsi you have verification tools that prove it, scanning for media defects at the hardware level.

I have a couple maxtor scsi drives, some ibm scsi drives, a maxtor and two seagate sata drives on my desk, all crap needing rma'ed.

Its easier to pick the 'good' brand when you haven’t seen a sh*tload of dead drives from every brand out there of varying platforms. Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, IBM.

I'm just bitter because the 120g WD IDE drive I got less then a month ago is now spitting up corrupt files and orphan segments along with bad blocks and I just installed my OS on it Saturday.

I think I'm just going to go out and get another SATA drive to go with the only good drive in my system and setup a Raid 1 for my OS. I have no faith in untested drives.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Congratulations. You just bought a drive from Seagate.

Amusingly enough, yes, this poll is meaningless. Seagate acquired Maxtor a couple of months ago.

[spartak]

Oh.