Seagate or Maxtor?

[Razorjack]

I'm happy with my Maxtor external drive, internals I agree are shite but I've not had a single problem with the 10+ external Maxtors I've used.

 

[SPLASTiK]

My Maxtor External died after a 6 months. It worked the night before just fine, plugged it in the next morning and it wasn't spinning.

Luckily I didn't have anything too important on there, nothing I've needed. But I had a bunch of old school work which I lost which would have been kind of cool to look at in retrospect but oh well.

Maxtor's Customer Service was good though. Well, the phone people. They said I'd receive a new one in 2 weeks and then I could just mail my broken one back. Well, that 2 weeks actually was like 6 weeks. It took two weeks just for them to process the order so I could see it on the website.

But I've had the new one (mine was being discontinued so I got the newer model and I think maybe 40 more GB) and other than one of the two firewire ports dying it hasn't had any problems in the year and a half I've been using it.

I'll probably go with WD or a DIY next time though with a nice case.

 

[006]

I would like to stop everyone before it's too late, and recommend that anyone that has replied to this thread with the words "hasn't happened to mine yet", or anything similar - FIND SOME WOOD TO KNOCK ON IMMEDIATELY.



Just bein' safe.

~006

 

[DNW]

I've got a Seagate for my apps drive, and it's been running great since I got it, maybe 2 years ago. No problems at all.

I also have two 40Gb WD drive that I'm always switching between, and both of those have been running beautifully since I got them maybe 3 or 4 years ago now.

 

[Razorjack]

I would like to stop everyone before it's too late, and recommend that anyone that has replied to this thread with the words "hasn't happened to mine yet", or anything similar - FIND SOME WOOD TO KNOCK ON IMMEDIATELY.



Just bein' safe.

~006

*Sneaks off to back up the latest project that is ALL on the maxtor*

 

[Niels]

Just bought a new seagate HD!

I hope there's no need to push around 12K like on the Maxtor HD.


Niels

 

[dawnofadreamx97]

I third the Glyph stuff, its fantastic, never skips a beat, and they have INCREDIBLE customer service and data recovery if need be... never ever needed it though.

 

[~BURNY~]

I have one seagate and two Maxtor unit. No problems with the maxtor's so far (cross my fingers) but... They are fu$*°#g noisy while the seagate is very quiet.
I think IDE drives sounds warmer than SATA drives...

 

[SickBoy]

They are fu$*°#g noisy while the seagate is very quiet.

I had WD 40GB drive in my computer for a few years and it became really small for my needs so I bought a 160GB Seagate.
What a noise drop! Now I can actually hear the case fan...

 

[Wolfeman]

I guess I'm lucky. I've been using Maxtor drives with no problems for about 7 years.

Knocking on wood right now....

 

[kev]

I've got a new 200GB seagate on the way!

 

[Death Is Certain]

I guess I'm lucky. I've been using Maxtor drives with no problems for about 7 years.

Knocking on wood right now....

And I have an IBM Deskstar in another PC that I've had for about 8 years now I think... I think I am the only person in the world that didn't have the Deskstar die on them. Knock on wood.

 

[TheStoryteller]

My old 60MB Deskstar is about to die very soon, judging from the horrible squeeking noises coming from it. I use it as a download/temp drive only, and it actually lived several years longer than I expected.

Like someone said; what about Samsung?

 

[EtherForBreakfast]

For some, it’s the silence of the lambs…

For me, horror is this:


http://tinyurl.com/34y47

Having said that.. Hitachi is just a tiny notch below Maxtor.

Stick with WD and Seagate.... thats my advice, nephews.

 

[SickBoy]

Hitachi = Excelstor = IBM
Once upon a time IBM HDDs were highly regarded but then they suddenly had a major drop in quality and in the end IBM sold its HDD department, which since then changed another owner.
Wouldn't put my penny in those drives...

 

[SPLASTiK]

Yup, I've had a DeathStar crash too.

 

[LynchpiN]

Like someone said; what about Samsung?

I'm curious about your opinions on Samsung drives, I have a couple but it hasn't been for time enough for me to have an opinion.

In my experience, never had problems with Western Digital, with Seagate only once. Get rid of Maxtors, two died on me last year alone.

 

[tgs]

I'm only using Seagate, for my computer in the studio, my HD24 and for my computer at home. I love them, they're quiet and I've never ever had any problems with them.

 

[Kazrog]

Seagate went through a very horrible period of crashing drives back in the mid 90s, but that's ancient history now. Their new drives have been great, as have Maxtor's. I can't take Western Digital seriously for some reason. Maybe because they made the shitty integrated video card in my old 486 laptop (also ancient history.) I have some baggage to get over for sure...

 

[Carrier Flux]

I really enjoyed the 12k boost joke btw with the implementation of fluid dynamic bearings I can finally record vocals without hearing hard drive noise coming through my mic


the fact of the matter is that your hard drives will die.

Seagates die.
Maxtors die.
WD's die.
Samsungs die.

your hard drives will die. back them up as often as possible. I love seagate and I own 5 of their drives, but I own one that crashed twice due to some write issue with the master file tables [NTFS]. otherwise they have been very good to me. however, they will all die. all of them.