Any Drive Brand to Avoid?

[jim evans]

The common drives available in my price range are Maxtor, Segate,
Western Digital and maybe Fujitsu or IBM. Are there any brands to
stay away from?

-- jim

 

[Arno Wagner]

The common drives available in my price range are Maxtor, Segate,
Western Digital and maybe Fujitsu or IBM. Are there any brands to
stay away from?

There are mainly drive types to avoid, as for example Travan.
DAT is also not too good.

Arno

 

[David A. Flory]

The common drives available in my price range are Maxtor, Segate,
Western Digital and maybe Fujitsu or IBM. Are there any brands to
stay away from?

-- jim

Hello,

Most drives today are decent. Maxtor is definitely below the others you
listed. I'd avoid Maxtors, personally.

I would go with Seagate for a desktop drive. Fujitsu is very good as
well, as is the WD Caviar SE16.

IBM doesn't make their own drives anymore, Hitachi bought their technology.

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB model is probably about the best
drive right now for the money.

Dave

 

[jim evans]

Thanks. I think the best deal near me is a Seagate.

-- jim

 

[Rod Speed]

The common drives available in my price range are
Maxtor, Segate, Western Digital and maybe Fujitsu
or IBM. Are there any brands to stay away from?

I avoid Maxtors and WDs myself. Maxtors because they dont like
running hot and WD because of their stupid jumpering scheme.
The stupid jumpering scheme isnt an issue with a SATA drive tho.

I personally stick with Samsung, very quiet and cool running drives.

And there is no IBM anymore, Hitachi bought their drive operation.

And Fujitsu hasnt made any 3.5" desktop drives for a long time now.

 

[David A. Flory]

I avoid Maxtors and WDs myself. Maxtors because they dont like
running hot and WD because of their stupid jumpering scheme.
The stupid jumpering scheme isnt an issue with a SATA drive tho.

I personally stick with Samsung, very quiet and cool running drives.

And there is no IBM anymore, Hitachi bought their drive operation.

And Fujitsu hasnt made any 3.5" desktop drives for a long time now.

They make very good SCSI 3.5" drives (I have a 15K--it's incredibly
quiet). I guess I thought they made IDE/SATA too.

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

They make very good SCSI 3.5" drives

Those arent in his price range and arent desktop drives.

(I have a 15K--it's incredibly quiet). I guess I thought they made IDE/SATA too.

Nope, they gave up on IDE 3.5" drives years ago,
literally, and that was before SATA ever showed up too.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

They make very good SCSI 3.5" drives (I have a 15K--it's incredibly
quiet).

I guess I thought they made IDE/SATA too.

Yes, you are a regular babblebot.

 

[David A. Flory]

Yes, you are a regular babblebot.

I seem to get a lot of posts from you.

I have no idea what your problem is, but I don't care to hear any more
about it. Welcome to my killfile.

D

 

[Arno Wagner]

I seem to get a lot of posts from you.

I have no idea what your problem is, but I don't care to hear any more
about it. Welcome to my killfile.

Were he resides in many other peoples newsreaders already. It is
surprising how someboady can be antagonistic and clueless for
so long and keep at it with obviously a lot of time investment.

Arno

 

[Jon Q. Arbuckle]

Were he resides in many other peoples newsreaders already. It is
surprising how someboady can be antagonistic and clueless for
so long and keep at it with obviously a lot of time investment.

So, Arno, You are in Swissland, you post all night, you post most of the
day, with the exception of maybe a few hours during the day in which
you presumably sleep at your dayjob at the university, but hey with
you you never know since (e-mail address removed) is used by several handles.

Are you looking in the mirror for inspiration when you write this type
of post, Arno?

Does subject title ring a bell for you.

 

[Oscar Jones]

I seem to get a lot of posts from you.

Yeah, and no idea why that is, right?
Obviously you have the right to bullshit and no one has the right to correct you.

I have no idea what your problem is, but I don't care to hear any more
about it.

You're welcome to Arnie's hole in the ground, Ostrich.

Welcome to my killfile.

You still look very silly child, with your head in the dirt and your blinkers on.

 

[John Turco]

There are mainly drive types to avoid, as for example Travan.
DAT is also not too good.

Arno

Hello, Arno:

Who said anything about tape drives, eh? The original poster ("jim
evans") mentioned hard disk manufacturers, above!


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>

 

[CJT]

There are mainly drive types to avoid, as for example Travan.
DAT is also not too good.

Arno

If that's the game, I'd advise against driving the Chicago Skyway.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hello, Arno:

Who said anything about tape drives, eh? The original poster ("jim
evans") mentioned hard disk manufacturers, above!

Ooops. Don't know why I thought "tape"....
I think it was the "IBM" who does not manufacture HDDs anymore
bus does do professional tape...

Arno

 

[John Turco]

Ooops. Don't know why I thought "tape"....
I think it was the "IBM" who does not manufacture HDDs anymore
bus does do professional tape...

Arno

Hello, Arno:

I noticed that, too. Yet, Seagate acquired Conner (which had made tape
drives), in the 1990's, and Fujitsu was also a player in the field,
once.

Western Digital and Maxtor never had anything to do with tape, to my
knowledge.


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>

 

[Guest]

The common drives available in my price range are Maxtor, Segate,
Western Digital and maybe Fujitsu or IBM. Are there any brands to
stay away from?

-- jim

I give another vote to Seagate. I personally have had good luck with
their drives (YMMV). I also like their 5 year warranty.

Conversely, I will never buy another Maxtor drive. The last four drive
failures that I had were all Maxtors. Their 1 year warranty at the time
I bought them was also pathetic. (Since Seagate bought Maxtor, they
have increased the warranty to 3 years.)

As a side note, carefully check the warranty when you buy a drive. I
see W-D drives with both 1 year and 3 year warranties. I think Seagate
always offers 5 years.

 

[Rod Speed]

I give another vote to Seagate. I personally have had good luck with
their drives (YMMV). I also like their 5 year warranty.

Conversely, I will never buy another Maxtor drive. The last four
drive failures that I had were all Maxtors. Their 1 year warranty at
the time I bought them was also pathetic. (Since Seagate bought
Maxtor, they have increased the warranty to 3 years.)

As a side note, carefully check the warranty when you buy a drive. I
see W-D drives with both 1 year and 3 year warranties. I think
Seagate always offers 5 years.

One exception is their external drives which only have 1 year warranty.

Their OEM drives dont necessarily have any warranty from Seagate.

 

[Ed Light]

You can get some idea by reading the newegg customer reviews for models
you're interested in.


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[Rod Speed]

You can get some idea by reading the newegg customer reviews for models you're interested in.

The storagereview stats are even better.