[Maleko]

hhmmm, all i can say is from what I have experienced...also as previosuly stated, when I worked for a online computer retailer, the most hard drives we had back where maxtors, and that had nothing to do with if we sold more maxtors than other brands, the difference was marginal. (from my experience anyway)

[boooggy]

from what i had seagate and western digital...had big probs with maxtor....

[RJARRRPCGP]

computerMan, on Jan 8 2006, 09:07 PM, said:

Just wandering

I Have a Western Digital 250 Gb SATA-150 I love it!

The Raptors are the only HDDs I want from Western Digital. Had bad luck with Western Digital.

N1K, on Jan 9 2006, 02:51 AM, said:

I have two SATA Maxtor 80GB disks and I'm very satisfied, but occasionally I'm hearing strange clicks from this disks, but disks report no errors. I read somewhere that this is normal behaviour for Maxtor disks..
When I hear strange clicks on disks I know that disk working time is near end..

A Western Digital 13 GB 5,400 RPM HDD that I still have does that. I can't recall having that issue with my Maxtor HDDs. But they're PATA.

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 28 February 2006 - 04:56 PM

[ripken204]

western digital, seagate, and hitachi-i like them all and i would buy any of them, just as long as they are sataII

[RJARRRPCGP]

Andromeda43, on Jan 29 2006, 12:33 PM, said:

I bought A WD SATA drive in June 2005. Since then I've had to replace it three times.
I'm currently using a Maxtor SATA 160gig., with NO problems.

Most of the tech's I rub elbows with recognize that WD's quality is just NOT there, and to preserve their own reputations, they just won't use WD drives.

WD has several different plants in different countries, most are in the far east.
The last RMA drive I got back from WD was made in Malaysia and was badly scratched like it had been kicked accross a cement floor. I won't even use it. Someone want a freebee?

Cheers,
Andromeda43

Sorry, I'm with Andromeda43 on this one, because most of the HDDs that I experienced having bad sectors and the click of death were Western Digital.

But I haven't had as bad luck as Andromeda43. Luckly, I never was required to replace it three times!

[WebMadman]

Maxtor 80GB with no problems

[T D]

Seagate all the way

[Shindo_Hikaru]

WD all the way

Seagate - missing controller board and have short life span
Maxtor - Missing IDE connector and high data corupt levels