Yay 3rd Hard Drive in a row
 

2 IBM hard drives have died on me since new years eve. so i bought a maxtor a month ago. knew they weren't the best hd on the market, but i got a good warranty and i figured the odds of getting 3 bad drives in a row is pretty damn low.

well the fuckin maxtor locked up and started clicking. shut it down for a min and now its working fine. guess its time to use that burner...

just replaced a bunk 60 gig ibm on a friends box....wtf is up with ibm drives

picked up two 100 gig western digitals for IDE raid....encodes video so fast it gives me wood.

ya all the wholesalers around here won't even stock ibm drives anymore. too many come back. i've heard a lot of good things about quantum. used to buy only fujitsu's but they are out of the desktop hd market now :(

my 12 gig fujitsu which has been in my pc forever must be pissin on my other drives or something. makin em all kick the bucket.

Go with Seagate HD's

IBM's and Maxtor are cheap drives and have been known for failure


We only go with Seagate HD's in our servers...

Ibm have had alot of problems with the 75 and 100gig drives, I have heard the 60 is a great drive though.

Seagate in the past was a shitty drive for me I have like 6 9gig ultra scsi drives from 96-97 that are bad. They run super super hot, I've had the best luck with quantam and western digital.

Maxtor seem to work fine also.

All in the same computer? Sure it's not something to do with the hard drive controller on the the mobo?

different motherboards, and its a clicking sound with this hard drive. the last ibm drive that died we thought it was the motherboard until we tried another drive. it worked so we knew it was the hard drive, then we tested the drive in a different pc and didn't work.

Never had a harddrive failing for me. Still got good old Quantum discs on 105MB from 89-90 still running without problem. :1orglaugh

I've got 2 bad western digitals setting of the floor and 1 in the landfill. NO more western digitals for me.

I kept 2 of the bads ones because they have data on them and wish I could recover some of it..

CLICK CLICK CLICK...

i've never had a hd crash before. do you go to start -> shutdown when you turn off your computer all the time?

The computer I am building next month will have two hard drives:

Seagate Cheetah 18.4GB 15000RPM U160 SCSI

Western Digital 120GB 8MB Buffer IDE (Special Edition)

Hopefully, nothing will die!

I just picked up a western digital (40 gb) here for 100 bucks.... thats like 60 USD :)


I have it set as a slave, is it normal to hear it powering up and down at random times, or should it constantly have power??

yes i do.

IBM drives are faulty... there's a class action lawsuit against them.

IBM recommends a running time of no more than 8 hours a day...

If you have them in your server... well, you suck!

stay away from IBM hd, especially the 75GXP serie

my pc is on whenever i'm awake. 8 hours? wtf are they smoking, almost everyone i know keeps their pc on all day.

Western Digitals 10000 rpms ROCK!

sounds like you need to change your power management settings in control panel to keep the HD awake and not let it slip into slumber after inactivity. check control panel>power options> then change "turn off hard disks" to "never"

got 3 maxtor drives in this box, never had any problems :)

you must be talking about SCSI Seagate HDDs you have in servers.. they are cool. but people usually use IDE at home...

Fujitsu IDE hdds are ok... WD are nice too.

Talking about IBM - they were good before... but seem to be not so good now... Recently my friend lost data from portable HDD set where 20gig IBM hdd screwed up..

We've had a bunch of IBM's die, we have good success with WD and Seagate.