After a series of disasters with ibm and now maxtor hard drives I am looking for a relaible alternative. Are the Western Dig SE hard drives (you knoe the ones with 8mb cache and 3 year warrenty) as reliable as people suggest?
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After a series of disasters with ibm and now maxtor hard drives I am looking for a relaible alternative. Are the Western Dig SE hard drives (you knoe the ones with 8mb cache and 3 year warrenty) as reliable as people suggest?
:D ask Jaeger :D
I love mine
Had one fail 2 weeks outta the box. RMA took over a month with a lot of crap from them. Then again, they screwed up and sent me 2 replacement drives :D .
WDs RMA service in the uk seems pretty good right now....;)
Given the extra warranty you get with these at 'no extra' cost (there's a cost somewheres.... :rolleyes: ... or maybe less profit?) they are my recommendation, since I've just put one inside my box they'd better be good !
To be honest I don't think there are any 'reliable' drives left... once upon a time it was easy they all were, but with increasing speed & capacity their potential to fail has gone up too, sadly they have become another disposable almost consumable item.....
Um, shocking reliability is very annoying. But I guess I'll buy one of those WD drives next order.
I've bought a lot of them.
400JB 800JB and 1200JB. I'm liking them muchly. The price is spot on considering the whole package.
Well my last ata133 maxtor started making grinding noises this morning so its rma time and I've bought a WD SE 80GB.
Thats 2 IBM 60gxps and 2 Maxtor 740DX drives that have done me down in last year. :(
How about those new maxtors, anyone know anything about them, theyve got some sort of special bearing tech or somthing I think.
And how about scsi drives are they like ultra reliable? I'm just thinking that one day I might get a decent job :D
My 80GB maxtor is going bad. All of my roomies maxtors were returned at least 1 time for failing. Even one of my old standby 20GB maxtors has developed bad sectors. Almost every maxtor I and my roomie has bought has had to be returned.
I have an ibm deskstar 120gb that has been doing well for a little while now (knock wood).
I just bought a WDse 80GB drive and it's fine so far.
It is slightly faster to respond than the other drives I have (all ATA 100 7200RPM). Windows apps seem to respond faster initially - that's it.
I must admit I am surprised about an increase in faulty Maxtor hd's. I myself personally never had any problems with them. Then again, I haven't bought any maxtors in the last while.
Last 2 I bought were Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm Diamond Max back in March. Running great so far.
OOOPSS. My mistake, I put together a P4 2.0A ghz system for my brother with a 60 gig maxtor this passed Aug. So far so good.
Where I used to work, we had a lot of Fujitsu's and IBM Deskstars to RMA, very few Maxtors.
I might try a WD.
I recently switched to seagates because the 80 gig and 40 gig 7200 rpm Barracuda's I bought in Oct. run very quiet, but they only have 1 yr warranty. So I'll know in a while if they were a bad choice or not.
I love SCSI!!!!! Just don't have the $$$$$$.
We'll see what the Serial ATA's are like soon.
Maybe Maxtor is going through a bad quality control issue. It happens to all of them.
Ive Had 5 Maxtors go south this year alone,, 2 IBMs,, 7 Seagates. Im Sure Had I Purchased WD,, Id Have Those Go Bad Also.
I Think Its A Conspiracy To Get All Our Software FREE :D
Theres Still 3 Year Warranties? I Could of swore I Read someplace all the top manufactures of hard drives dropped those.
Either Way,, Id Be Happy to see a modern drive last 6 months let alone 1 year :(
I agree!!!! It is a conspiracy with Microsoft's blessing!!!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Trout
Ive Had 5 Maxtors go south this year alone,, 2 IBMs,, 7 Seagates. Im Sure Had I Purchased WD,, Id Have Those Go Bad Also.
I Think Its A Conspiracy To Get All Our Software FREE :D
Theres Still 3 Year Warranties? I Could of swore I Read someplace all the top manufactures of hard drives dropped those.
Either Way,, Id Be Happy to see a modern drive last 6 months let alone 1 year :(
:D
The only ones that I'm aware of who still offer 3 year warranties on there IDE hd's are IBM and Samsung.
All the others are 1 yr. Unless it is a serial ata (3 yrs for them as far as I know), scsi (3-5 years warranty) and certain ide models of hds (3 yrs for the Western Digital WD Caviar Special Edition) or extended warranty purchase plan on a hd.
I've actually never had great luck with WD drives. Not bad really, just not great. I've always had perfect performance out of Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM drives, and in fact have six of them in service.Quote:
Originally posted by vapd
After a series of disasters with ibm and now maxtor hard drives I am looking for a relaible alternative. Are the Western Dig SE hard drives (you knoe the ones with 8mb cache and 3 year warrenty) as reliable as people suggest?
But with the anti-consumer move of the manufacturers dropping the warranties to one year from three years (and have you EVER heard such pathetic excuses for doing it!), I had to make a change. I will NOT buy a hard drive that only has a one year warranty.
That is why my last drive was the 80GB SE drive. The fact that it was on sale for $79 after rebate at CompUSA also had a bit to do with it :)
It performs well. Even better than the Maxtor D740X 80GB that it replaced (the Maxtor went to my file server for serving media files over the network).
It doesn't have the best access times in the industry, but in sustained thru-put you can't beat it.
WD drives make scary noises when you turn them on and shut them off. I believe it's the heads parking/unparking :)
Reliability is yet to be seen. I've got Maxtor DiamondMax Plus drives going on 3 years old that have never been turned off, and they show no sign of quitting nor have they collected any bad blocks. If the WD drive serves as well, I'll be happy.
TL
If you want drives that will last forever. Go grab some SCSI drives. The comercial grade drives tend to last way past thier usefullness.
~Chris
After a bad experience at home with 2 IBM drives (one failed after 6 months, RMA took 1 month, replacement drive failed after 1 month) I moved to 80G WD (the 2M cache version). I have 2 of them in my system, 1 has 1 1/2 yrs now, the other 1 year, absolutely no problem. Just a couple of weeks ago I got the 80G-SE (8M cache). So far it's fine (price was also fine at COMPUSA).Quote:
Originally posted by vapd
After a series of disasters with ibm and now maxtor hard drives I am looking for a relaible alternative. Are the Western Dig SE hard drives (you knoe the ones with 8mb cache and 3 year warrenty) as reliable as people suggest?
From what I see at work I can say that WD drives are more reliable than Maxtor/Quantum.
If you want reliability go for a RAID1 array (or 0+1 if you have the $$$ for 4 drives). There are also IDE RAID5 solutions available, but to be honest I haven't evaluated their performance yet.
Are SCSI drives more reliable? Don't know, at least they used to be. Do they have better performance? The high-end ones kick a$$ (think of 15000rpm, 3.5ms avg. seek and 35-60M/sec sustained transfer). Got some ca$h to burn?:flame:
So True,, lol I Have an old Conner 2.1 gig scsi drive that i cant even kill bounceing it on the floor :DQuote:
Originally posted by imagoon
If you want drives that will last forever. Go grab some SCSI drives. The comercial grade drives tend to last way past thier usefullness.
~Chris
Honestly,,, I Really Think Things are just moving to fast from the engineers table to the consumers PC.
I Feel That REAL Time Testing Is a thing of yesteryear.
We Are now beta testers of products rather than consumers.And here In the USA, everything being treated as disposable. Most items are thrown out before they become outdated by a week. Sad Sad Sad
I Have a buddy out here,{ Teenager) that has one very nice computer built with componets fished out of dumpsters from serveral retail businesses here.
Even his copy of XP professional came out of a dumpster, STILL In The Original Box,,, Just Kinda torn up LOL
his system
Nokia 22 inch monitor Via Comp usa dumpster
amd 1 gig duron Via Computer warehouse dumpster
256 megs ram via gateway dumpster
40 gig hard drive via gateway dumpster
mid tower case atx via Computer resource dumpster
56k conexant modem Via HP Found On The Side Of Road
Motherboard (msi } Via Comp usa dumpster
He Refers To His Dumpster Diving Habit As Shopping Now,, Go Figure