seagate or samsung

ok, which is the best HDD maker, they are only $10 different for the HDD i am wanting.

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i get to spend $700 of my mates money building him a computer

 

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seagate. Buy Maxtor its way better than seagate. And what is the storage you are looking for...like today usually 120 Gigs is min. you could go for something like 300 Gigs which sounds OK.....

 

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Maxtor???? ROFL i havent known one of them to last more than 2 years in anything, i only really guarantee 8 months out of them.

i was gonna go for the 250gb, like my new one, but it would cost about $245, while the 200gb(ill upgarde it later) is only $185

 

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Screw you. all the freaking world is using Maxtor drives...

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if you care to look at ratings at cnet, please take a look at CNET or engadget...

I have 300 Gig internal drive (using it as external), a 250 gig external drive from maxtor.
OK so i you want something like 1 TB, then go for Lacie, 'cause the maxtor people havent yet come up with one...I had seagate drive in my compaq pressario desktop loooooong time back and it was damm noisy.

 

hitachi are the quietest, and better quality too IMO, but they cost about $50 more

again, maxtor?? do you have a brain defect? did you somehow catch brain herpes? maxtor?

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Although Maxtor greatly improved (they were just crap a few years ago), Seagate HD have always been reliable. Of the "cheapy" drives I would choose in this order, Seagate, western digital, maxtor.

 

I have the samsung spinpoint 160gb and it's wonderful. It is much, much, much quieter than the 80gb Western Digital I bought at BestBuy. Most silent pc web sites recommend the spinpoint over every drive, including seagate.

 

BARF!

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I have bad experiences with Maxtor's non-reliability. I will never buy those again. Noisy sucker too! Go Samsung or Western Digital. I have a Samsung (1.4 GB) that is over ten years old and only started "sticking" a few years back, but it still works!

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Do not get the Maxtor, whatever you do.

 

For what it's worth chaps, I'd have to throw m'hat in the Maxtor's ring - 10 years, I dodgy dive incident, non-Maxtor drive. Not doing that again.

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I swear by Maxtor all the way. I have never had a problem with their drives at all and I'm still using some from a good 10 years ago.

 

ach, my only maxtor drive came with my HP is 1998, it died about a year later, and was replaced my a 40gb seagate that still works

 

What ever drive you go with, just make sure it's got enough room for what you want, enough RPM (otherwise you might find some loaded processes take a while because of the access speed) and enough Heads (The more heads the better in theory as they allow reading and writing access to the drive faster than a lesser headed unit.)

I have had one Maxtor drive die however it was a 10GB one dating from about 98-99 and only died this year because of my attempt to use it as a C Drive with XP installed. XP killed it along with an NTFS partition, however it can still be used as a storage secondary drive (it doesn't stick). It's not so much a Maxtor fault as apposed to yesterdays technology trying to keep up with todays software.

 

i still have my maxtor drive, and it goes fine, as long as i hold it on the right angle, with enough pressure on it. apparently the vacuum broke, because when it died, me and my brother spent about 3 nights with the computers propped up just right, squeezing the HDD while we copied our music onto the new seagate

 

Too bad that Quantum is dead long ago already.... I have a Quantum Fireball back home which has been over 5 years old and is still kicking even after being harmed lots of times (improper restarting, BSODs etc)

Anyway, I have Maxtor which has lasted for almost 3 years, and is not too bad if I may say. You can try it.

 

Vslayer,

are you sure you got a maxtor drive? 'cause sometimes they just have labels on them

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Anyways, Maxtor drives are stable and have good performance. Bought a 300 Gig recently works great...

 

300gb? thats a lot of data to lose in 1 years time

 

western digital.

 

Seagate, if you're into quiet components.

I have two in bicycle tube suspension in this computer and they're silent unless you have your head in the cabinet during spin-up.

 

I have had Maxtor and never had a problem that I didn't cause. I've recently rebuilt my PC and now have a 200 GB SATA HD at 7500 RPM and using RAID drivers. This HD is quiter than the others I've owned but I use the others as back ups now. I'd recommend Maxtor but would like a Hitachi next time with a SATA 10,500 HD.That would mean getting a special MOBO for it which I might get next rebuild.