Comment maxtors? (Score 1) 106
The only HDD's that I've had luck out of are:
WDC (IDEs, only 2 died, they were 120's. Both were 2nd hand. one came from a highschool, another from someone else.)
Seagates (before they bought out conner, only had 1, and it's a 210, still going too)
Quantums (SCSI, only had 1 tho)
Fugitsu, but I've only used 1
and Micropolis (I have 8 at work, mostly 2gb's scsi's and still working. Had 9, but one was bad when I started)
As far as seagates, I've had 4 (1.2 and 1.7gb) go out with in about 2 months. My workplace ordered 36 computers (all with 2.1gb seagates). We had to ship back 4 of those drives, another one I'm feeling will go out.
I've had problems out of *EVERYTHING* that conner has put out. Used to have a conner 250mb drive, and lost 5mb of my drive when it crashed. Used to have a 170mb conner, 6months went by and bad sectors. Had a 60mb conner, sold it and next day, 512k of bad sectors. Someone I know used to have a 420, about 3mb of bad sectors. I saw a 540mb conner, to my surprise, it looked exactly like a seagate drive... Hmmm
I'm not trying to flame, this is just personal experiences.
If I was to recommend a hard drive, I'd say either a quantum or a wdc (also personal experience, scsi's work better than ide's)
WDC (IDEs, only 2 died, they were 120's. Both were 2nd hand. one came from a highschool, another from someone else.)
Seagates (before they bought out conner, only had 1, and it's a 210, still going too)
Quantums (SCSI, only had 1 tho)
Fugitsu, but I've only used 1
and Micropolis (I have 8 at work, mostly 2gb's scsi's and still working. Had 9, but one was bad when I started)
As far as seagates, I've had 4 (1.2 and 1.7gb) go out with in about 2 months. My workplace ordered 36 computers (all with 2.1gb seagates). We had to ship back 4 of those drives, another one I'm feeling will go out.
I've had problems out of *EVERYTHING* that conner has put out. Used to have a conner 250mb drive, and lost 5mb of my drive when it crashed. Used to have a 170mb conner, 6months went by and bad sectors. Had a 60mb conner, sold it and next day, 512k of bad sectors. Someone I know used to have a 420, about 3mb of bad sectors. I saw a 540mb conner, to my surprise, it looked exactly like a seagate drive... Hmmm
I'm not trying to flame, this is just personal experiences.
If I was to recommend a hard drive, I'd say either a quantum or a wdc (also personal experience, scsi's work better than ide's)
