mookaloid
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 03:17 PM |
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HDD reliability
I'm coming across several failed hard drives recently - Western Digital and Samsung being the 2 most recent.
Which makes are the most reliable?
Cheers
Mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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ReMan
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 04:18 PM |
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Are you talking about Desktop or Laptop drives?
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 04:20 PM |
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proper cooling helps, heat often kills an otherwise reliable brand.
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dhutch
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 04:50 PM |
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We have about 5-6 Seagates on the go around the place, two in this machine, and so far have been fairly happy.
- Only ever had one die, which was a 11gb Fujitsu about 8 years ago.
These are pata and sata desktop drives.
Daniel
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flak monkey
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 05:01 PM |
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I have had an 80Gb IBM drive for about 8 years now, still going strong. My newer drives have all been Maxtor or Seagate Barracudas, all of which have
been faultless.
Having said that all of mine are sitting behind a good fan which is regularly cleaned.
Cheers,
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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graememk
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 05:35 PM |
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i always build with maxtor and if you keep them coolish you wont have a problem.
but to be honest they arnt as reliable as they used to be, change more psu's and hard drive now than ever before
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mookaloid
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 05:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
Are you talking about Desktop or Laptop drives?
The WD was a desk top 3.5"
The Samsung was a 3 month old 2.5"
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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mookaloid
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 05:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
proper cooling helps, heat often kills an otherwise reliable brand.
Good point - I hate noisy PC's I have been known to disconnect the case fan to keep it quiet 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 06:45 PM |
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I've never had a Seagate fail on me, and I look after a lot of machines 
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mcerd1
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 06:57 PM |
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I've used seagate disks in everything for the last 7 years in all the machines I've built/ fixed for myself and the family (about 20+
disks) and so far none have failed so far (the first one I got is still going in this machine I'm using now)
but I've had a WD and 2 Fujitsu's that both failed at about a year old
I was running my main disk in a big alloy heatsink thing (with a fan built in) that fitted in a 5.25" bay and I could do with a couple more of
these, but I can't find anywhere that sells them now - anyone know where you can get them ?
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BenB
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 07:10 PM |
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I wasn't sure what HDs I'm running so I just looked....
3* Maxtor drives.
1 is 10 years old, 1 is 6 years old, one is 2 years old.
None have every had any errors.....
So I can firmly recommend Maxtors!!!!!!
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mcerd1
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 07:22 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
None have every had any errors.....
So I can firmly recommend Maxtors!!!!!!
Maxtor are made by seagate 
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BenTyreman
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 07:55 PM |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing
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mookaloid
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 08:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenTyreman
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing
Damn I just ordered a seagate 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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