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Re: HD manufacturers you trust Edited.
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2 edits | said by signmeuptoo:This thread is on a topic that has been covered ad nauseum. Just because a person has had "bad luck" with a brand doesn't mean anything other than that that is THEIR experience. This thread is fodder for endless arguments for and against things that there is no statististical information, at least that I know of. Google did a study, but it was about heat and drives, and that was years ago. I can't afford to buy any drives but my experience is that every brand has had its issues and its shining stars. It's dumb to argue over one brand versus another, and if anyone can PROVE otherwise, I'd like to see it. Threads like this can do more harm than good, no offense to the OP, but this has been done many times before. What I am trying to say is that debate threads about brands can turn into flame bait, and said thread then gets locked, its happened before, and when we've had AMD versus Intel threads, they have been frowned upon because of this. Toe may toe : Toe mah toe let's call the whole things off, so the song goes... What are you babbling about? Do people not read thread titles? This isn't a "whats the best hard drive to get" thread, it's a "which drive do YOU trust/like." It's honestly posts like these in those kind of threads that takes focus away from everything and totally derails it.
Think of this thread as "Which is your favorite baseball team?" not "Which is the best baseball team?"
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| I've been a sysadmin for 20+ years and I've seen 10 IBM/Hitachi drives fail for every WD drive that I've seen fail, and I've seen 10 WD drives fail for every Seagate I've seen fail.
I have limited experience with SAS, but years with SCSI and SATA.
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I trust any manufacturer about as far as I can throw them.
I run Raid 5 + hot spare and have a two 3rd party backup systems (one off site and 1 in a fireproof safe) just to be safe.
I don't trust any data storage manufacturer at all.
Currently I'm running Seagate 1.5TB 7200rpm drives. In 2 years when I upgrade... who knows.
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| Hmmm, maybe it is me. I have never had any really bad luck with any of the drive manufacturers.
Sure, one or two over the years has prematurely died...but the vast majority have lasted well over 5 years, several with 24/7 usage, I just can't get up too much anger at hard drive makers...
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Edmonton, AB | Seagate and WDC are currently my top two.
I have several 7200.7, 7200.9, 7200.10, and 7200.12 drives in service within work computers, servers, and my main computers at home. I skipped the .11 series due to the firmware fiascoes.
If I can't get my hands on a Seagate, then I'll go with a WDC drive. The reason why WDC is my second choice is due to fairly lengthy RMA's. WDC takes two weeks to replace a drive where Seagate only takes one week.
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