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HD manufacturers you trust

I like Samsung Hitachi and WD... I have a WD 50MB SCSI that's 20+ and still works..
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Samsung. Then i'd go with WD.

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WD Caviar Black ONLY. I really love the specs on it like Dual processor, Colossal cache, StableTrac,and NoTouch ramp load technology.

The old Raptor came DoA, the blue and normal never really last that long for me. Never try green before.

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Trust is a hard thing to come by these days my friend. Generally speaking I trust no one! That is to say expect failure and try to be prepared for it. Having said that, these days I usually buy WD Black and Green drives although I don’t think I would be any worse off with “select” Seagate, Samsung and Hitachi models.

If one company is having a problem with one or two product lines that doesn’t mean the entire ship is sinking.

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I've had problems with two Seagate ST9500420ASG 500GB hard drives and am on number three right now on this laptop (they are getting replaced under warranty so no extra $$$ out of my pocket).

I have a Western Digital caviar green as a backup hard drive in an external enclosure (it gets used once a month).

I have four Western Digital caviar blacks in my server with NO issues whatsoever and one Western Digital caviar black in my wife's laptop with no issues.
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At one point or another, I've had problems with each manufacturer. I don't believe in "x brand always makes good drives."

I check reviews and reports on particular models, and go off of that. So far I've had great luck with the WD Green 2Tb drives, but not with the Seagates over 1Tb. But that could change with the next model.
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I've been a WD girl for over a decade.
If the black caviars were a life raft, I'd not drown.

No problems ever with WD until I bought a couple of the Green caviar type to replace my main and backup drive. Both failed, but the backup drive hurts the worst. It still sits in a drawer, with my backup data locked in there forever.

I replaced the bad greens with the blacks, and all is good again.

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My current farm of 3.5" HDDs consist of 6 Western Digitals, 3 Hitachis, and 2 Maxtors.

I have no problems with the Western Digital or Hitachi drives.

The two Maxtors are old but still working. The bearings are whiny, and at present are in USB enclosures. A third Maxtor, an 80GB, was the only drive I ever had fail. Some of the chips on the underside of that drive were labeled "Quantum" and it was manufactured around the time of the merger.

Drive temperatures -- based on both the questionably-accurate onboard sensors as well as "to the hand" touch -- indicate the Hitachi drives I've got stay much cooler than the WD drives. 55C peak under sustained transfer on the WD drives, and that's even with cage fans, vs. only 34C peak under sustained transfer on the Hitachi drives with no cage fan. Both makes idle around 28C.

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Its hard to say who to trust. Lately, though, I have been having good luck with Seagate's drives, having purchased 4 or 5 of their Free Agent or similar desktop external drives, and all are going fine, with some more than 2 years old.

The last drive I had fail on me was in 2008, and that was a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (one of the infamous SD15 firmware ones). I got the drive repaired for free, and all the data on it was intact.
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Even tho I have only had ONE drive failure in, say, 20 years (the IBM disaster), I think it foolish to "trust" any hdd from any mfr. I believe that they all try to maintain a high standard of quality, but hds are mechanical devices subject to failure.

In truth, I would have to answer by saying that the HD manufacturer I trust the most is Ghost, version 8 or lower. (Any later version is garbage, imho). FYI, I remain a committed 2k/xp user. YMMV if you are in Vista- or Seven- land.

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Typically, Western Digital, for SATA. Nobody for SAS (Seagate fail far too often).

Hitachi continually fail and have one of the highest RMA rates in the industry, Samsung are also cheap and Seagate are up and down depending on their model. We find ourselves replacing a Seagate SAS drive once a year in every server we integrate with industry standard hot swap assemblies.

As an aside we've recently started having a few single platter WD AAKS's come back, sold in the past 1 - 2 year, which we expected to have the lowest failure rate... not bad, but not so good as other models.

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I like Seagate WD and recently picked up a Hitachi and have been impressed with it. I can't say much for Samsung since I've never owned one.
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