reliable hard drive makes

its been a while since i bought a hard drive and am looking to pick up a
200 Gb+ IDE drive, what makes do people reccomend ?, are the maxtor
diamond 9 still any good ?.

any help appreciated.

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"andy" <eps@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> its been a while since i bought a hard drive and am looking to pick up a
> 200 Gb+ IDE drive, what makes do people reccomend ?, are the maxtor
> diamond 9 still any good ?.
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> --
> Eps

yes

Very terse.
Maxtor just go and go and go and go. They're great. I'm still touchy
about seagate hdds..
The new range of Hitachi High Capacity ones seem to be performing well
in reviews.

andy, 3/12/2006,7:44:36 AM, wrote:

> its been a while since i bought a hard drive and am looking to pick
> up a 200 Gb+ IDE drive, what makes do people reccomend ?, are the
> maxtor diamond 9 still any good ?.
>
> any help appreciated.

I have seen many hard drive failures within the department I work in.
Invariably the oldest ones that fail are Western Digitals. The newer
ones that fail are Seagates, IBMs, Maxtors. I think the 20% more you
might pay for a WD is worth it.

Have you considered SATA rather than IDE? It would free up an IDE
connection for another device.

The big 3 have all had their failings, including Maxtor. Seagate currently
has the longest warranty of 5 years. A few years ago Maxtor dropped theirs
to 1 year and then upped it again when Seagate entered the market. Funny
though, as Maxtor has now be purchased by Seagate.

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"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> andy, 3/12/2006,7:44:36 AM, wrote:
>
>> its been a while since i bought a hard drive and am looking to pick
>> up a 200 Gb+ IDE drive, what makes do people reccomend ?, are the
>> maxtor diamond 9 still any good ?.
>>
>> any help appreciated.
>
> I have seen many hard drive failures within the department I work in.
> Invariably the oldest ones that fail are Western Digitals. The newer
> ones that fail are Seagates, IBMs, Maxtors. I think the 20% more you
> might pay for a WD is worth it.
>
> Have you considered SATA rather than IDE? It would free up an IDE
> connection for another device.

>Seagate entered the market

Sorry, what I really meant to say was when Seagate started promoting their 5
year warranty. Seagate had been in the market for years.

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"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> The big 3 have all had their failings, including Maxtor. Seagate currently
> has the longest warranty of 5 years. A few years ago Maxtor dropped theirs
> to 1 year and then upped it again when Seagate entered the market. Funny
> though, as Maxtor has now be purchased by Seagate.
>
> --
> Jan Alter
> bearpuf@verizon.net
> or
> jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
> "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:xn0ejmyy7mhjlp001@news.readfreenews.net...
>> andy, 3/12/2006,7:44:36 AM, wrote:
>>
>>> its been a while since i bought a hard drive and am looking to pick
>>> up a 200 Gb+ IDE drive, what makes do people reccomend ?, are the
>>> maxtor diamond 9 still any good ?.
>>>
>>> any help appreciated.
>>
>> I have seen many hard drive failures within the department I work in.
>> Invariably the oldest ones that fail are Western Digitals. The newer
>> ones that fail are Seagates, IBMs, Maxtors. I think the 20% more you
>> might pay for a WD is worth it.
>>
>> Have you considered SATA rather than IDE? It would free up an IDE
>> connection for another device.
>
>

"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:P2ZQf.616$%b.540@trndny09...
> >Seagate entered the market
>
> Sorry, what I really meant to say was when Seagate started promoting their
> 5 year warranty. Seagate had been in the market for years.
>

wait a minute!! I know maxtor used to be terrible. And now people are
saying they're ok. Is that since they'be been purchased by seagate?! are
they basically seagate drives? i.e. good but run a bit hot!

james hanley, 3/14/2006, 9:33:53 AM,
<4416d451$0$23291$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> wrote:

> "Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:P2ZQf.616$%b.540@trndny09...
> > > Seagate entered the market
> >
> > Sorry, what I really meant to say was when Seagate started
> > promoting their 5 year warranty. Seagate had been in the market
> > for years.
> >
>
> wait a minute!! I know maxtor used to be terrible. And now people
> are saying they're ok. Is that since they'be been purchased by
> seagate?! are they basically seagate drives? i.e. good but run a bit
> hot!

Seagate was purchased by Maxtor.

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:33:53 -0000, "james hanley"
<jameshanley39@Yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:P2ZQf.616$%b.540@trndny09...
>> >Seagate entered the market
>>
>> Sorry, what I really meant to say was when Seagate started promoting their
>> 5 year warranty. Seagate had been in the market for years.
>>
>
>wait a minute!! I know maxtor used to be terrible.

Then you jumped to conclusions. They weren't ever terrible,
no HDD manufacturer would've stayed in business this long
had they been terrible. They did have models from time to
time with certain issues, but so have the others.


>And now people are
>saying they're ok. Is that since they'be been purchased by seagate?! are
>they basically seagate drives? i.e. good but run a bit hot!

No they are not basically seagate drives, and it has nothing
to do with anyone purchasing anyone. People just get on
silly tangents and bash drives. What I suspect happens the
most is that whatever parts are cheapest, get bought by
certain types of customers who give the the less care though
inexperience. A couple years ago Maxtor had the most
ongoing rebates so they were among those sold in highest
volume to cheapskates. More recently Seagate and WD had
more aggressive rebate programs and to a limited extent,
Hitachi. Give it a year and we'll see if those makes have
slightly higher failure reports having aged a little.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:05:03 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>Then you jumped to conclusions. They weren't ever terrible,
>no HDD manufacturer would've stayed in business this long
>had they been terrible. They did have models from time to
>time with certain issues, but so have the others.


Seagate was a terrible drive back in the mid 1980s. It went bankrupt
too.


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