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Great68 · 09-17-2010, 04:35 PM

I've been out of the IT game for quite a while, so I have lost any relevant first hand experience based opinions on the subject.

When I used to work in IT, the company I worked for first mainly used Maxtors, out of the 30 or so I installed the majority were those 1/2 thickness (20-40gig) drives. Almost every single one of the 1/2 thickness drives we installed had a failure within a year, and I even had a few failures of the larger 60 gig drives (one of which was in my own PC).

I have a sour taste from Western Digitals too, my very first computer I ever owned had a 212mb WD, and I had to have it replaced twice...

We then started using Seagates, and out of the 500 or so I installed I honestly saw maybe only a dozen failures over the remaining few years I worked at that company. My current home desktop machine has a 500Gig PATA drive which used to be in a fileserver for a year and it's still chugging along (It's probably a good 3-4 years old)

But lately I've been hearing Seagates have been having problems?

So who's best these days?

09-17-2010, 04:35 PM	#1
Great68 Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Victoria Posts: 10,936 Thanked 5,583 Times in 2,055 Posts Failed 188 Times in 103 Posts	Who makes the most reliable spinny drives these days? I've been out of the IT game for quite a while, so I have lost any relevant first hand experience based opinions on the subject. When I used to work in IT, the company I worked for first mainly used Maxtors, out of the 30 or so I installed the majority were those 1/2 thickness (20-40gig) drives. Almost every single one of the 1/2 thickness drives we installed had a failure within a year, and I even had a few failures of the larger 60 gig drives (one of which was in my own PC). I have a sour taste from Western Digitals too, my very first computer I ever owned had a 212mb WD, and I had to have it replaced twice... We then started using Seagates, and out of the 500 or so I installed I honestly saw maybe only a dozen failures over the remaining few years I worked at that company. My current home desktop machine has a 500Gig PATA drive which used to be in a fileserver for a year and it's still chugging along (It's probably a good 3-4 years old) But lately I've been hearing Seagates have been having problems? So who's best these days? __________________ 1968 Mustang Coupe 2008.5 Mazdaspeed 3 1997 GMC Sonoma ZR2 2014 F150 5.0L XTR 4x4 A vehicle for all occasions