What harddrive do you reccomend? Maxtor or Western Digital?
 

I only need a 40gb- 80gb

I've been reading alot on both brands and found problems with both.
A lot of people say Maxtor drives get a lot of bad sectors and Western Digital has complete data loss. I've read several review sites.

If there is another brand that is good let me know, thanks.

i have one of each. no problems with either. both are quality

I've had two Dell supplied Maxtors fail in the last 90 days

ive noticed certain sizes with certain brands have problems
ive used both brands with dif sizes and had great ones and total crap
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western digital all the way :thumbsup

Anything but Maxtor.

We've had 3 of the last 4 Maxtor that we had screw up badly in less than a year after purchase. We've personally never had any major problems with Western Digital, though.

Don't they all have the same internals now?

I use maxtors and they seem to be running fine

I've heard bad things about maxtor... i buy WD

I've used external Maxtor drives for scratch disks and back-up for years with my Macs, and have never had a drive fail.

In the past, the drives that either crashed or that I ditched were made by IBM, LaCie, Syquest, and Iomega. I also had one Quantum internal drive die.

I've never tried WD.

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Chlamydia or gonorrhea... I pick neither.

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Personally I think that Samsung makes the best drives

seagate//////

fuck it dude, if you can afford it, you should really get a SCSI drive.

they can get up to 15000+ RPM you know :pimp :pimp :pimp

only hdd thats gone bad on my was my maxtor

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Between Maxtor & Western Digital = Maxtor
Between Maxtor & Seagate = Seagate

WD all da way.

Been using them for better part of decade, and had 10-12 (dual drives, different PC's). Never had one crash, data loss, or any grief.

:thumbsup

I'm using WD for years and never had any major problems !

i don't use Maxtor, Seagate Barracuda is the best for me. :thumbsup

STAY AWAY FROM MAXT0R!!!!

Their drives seem to fail quite a lot

It's almost the same. I have both maxtor and WD. So I'd say, you can buy either maxtor or WD, there is no difference (in my case).

I've owned two Maxtors 40GB, both of them broke down before they was 1 year old, I had my entire mp3 collection on one of them :BangBang:

I also have three Western Digital hdds, 80, 120 & 180GB, all of them are still in use and working without problems.

// Vertigo

WD raptors !!! all the way
8MB cache, 10000rpm..

Had everal Maxtors fail. They seem to very succeptable to heat. I have run up to 500 WD drives with 8MB buffer (get a drive with buffer) and I have never had one fail.

Agreed, WD with the 8 MB cache.

I've had 3 maxtors die in the past year, the last one the day after it was installed :(

I hate maxtor, some people also have probs with Western Digital even though I never have.

From those two... Maxtor... But seagate all the way.

anything but Maxtor

No No NO


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Internal: Western
external: Maxtor

I have roughly 30 external Maxtor drives that are used on a weekly basis and in the last 2 years only 4 failures, for me and how much they are used, that's a pretty good ratio.

All of my Western internals work great, only had one failure out of about 10 drives.


Hope that helps,

Best,

Out of 6 maxtors - all still running great (all internal too) some as old as 5 yrs old (almost 6)

2 Western digital drives both died on the 13th month of very little usage - I'd never buy a WD again - although they replace them quick but they are sitting on my desk cuz I'd never put it back.

seagate !!!!

Maxtor has a better warantee I believe, but personally I think their drives suck. I've had four fail n a span of 14 months and one actually smoked up. I have three WD and one one had a problem but it was 3 or 4 years old. I have a 5 year old seagate still going strong though ;)