Best HDD manufacturer ?

[nevpugh308]

Who's generally considered the best HDD manufacturer at the moment ?

(I've just found out that you can get 160 gig disks for £100 now ! Wow)

[plotloss]

Cant go wrong with Big Blue IMHO

Seagate probably next best in my experience.

Swerve Maxtor...

[Podie]

plotloss said:

Cant go wrong with Big Blue IMHO Seagate probably next best in my experience. Swerve Maxtor...

No experience of Big Blue, but I'd agree with the other two statements from Plotty...

[Gerrard]

Big Blue - now Hitachi, definitely the best IMO

Hitachi DeskStar 180GXP
60GB - £51, 180GB - £126 (Dabs.com)

[judas]

Latest edition of PC Pro has a hard disk labs test. Winner is the Samsung SP1604N, which you can pick up for under a ton, and is incidently the very one I have in my new PC. And it's a good 'un

[pdV6]

Never ever had a problem with any Western Digital Caviar drives that I've ever bought/used/installed for other peeps.

[nevpugh308]

Thanks for the thoughts people

Funny enough, it's a Maxtor that I've got in my PC now (which is starting to go wrong - PC "forgot" it had a HDD this morning for a bit ! ) .... and it's less than a year old, when it replacement for (under warranty) another Maxtor which packed in ....

[nevpugh308]

p.s. where's a good place to buy from as well as dabs ? (they dont do the Samsung SP1604N)

[nevpugh308]

S'okay .... just ordered a Samsung from Simply. £82 (ex vat) for 160 gig ... absolutely incredible !

[polar_ben]

Just to buck the trend, I've blown up 2 IBM drives in 3 years. Now on a 120GB Western Digital Caviar, which seems to be performing admirably

[ehasler]

Western Digital Special Edition disks (8MB cache instead of 2) are supposed to be very good (I have two of them, and have had no problems)

Places to buy:

www.ebuyer.com
www.aria.co.uk
www.scan.co.uk
www.simply.co.uk

[docevi1]

www.overclock.co.uk
www.overclockers.co.uk
www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk (if they start up again)

I've had two Maxtor drives for 3 years now and they haven't failed! Western Digital are meant to be decent as well.

Stefan

[malman]

Avoid Fujitsu like the plague. Big blue don't make consumer disks anymore (generally sub contracted and badged).

Seagates have nice warranties (five year I think but that might only be the scsi versions) and perform well.

Most of the other manufacurers are pretty much the same when you compare like for like but Fujitsu always seem to be consistantly bad. Ask Compaq I'll be surprised if they buy from them again.

[docevi1]

or RM, or Dell... Fujitsu drives would fail given certain circumstances that cropped up a lot and cost the major companies a lot of money in replacements and letters!

Stefan

[kanes]

haven't most manufacturers recently gone down to a 1 year warranty rather than the traditional 3 years?

For my 2p, I prefer Seagate Barracudas for the realiability/noise

[marlboro]

I use the Western Digital Special Edition HDD's with 8Meg cache. As yet very reliable and are very fast.

www.ebuyer.com