HDD brand

wich brand of HDD do you guys think as the best avaliable at the market?
HITACHI, SEAGATE, ...
help me! thanks!

 

Personally I believe Hitachi, Western Digital, and Seagate are fine.

I do not like Samsung hard drives at all.

 

I'm more of a Seagate guy, but I like Hitachi too. 5-year warranties are the best!

 

Hitachi and Seagate make the best notebook hard drives, imo. As Greg mentions, the 5 year warranty of Seagate HDs make them really attractive.

Fujitsu, Toshiba and Samsung make up the next tier.

 

I am a big fan of perpendicular recording, I buy the hype hook line and sinker! Hitachi and Seagate both use.

 

If I had to pick an HDD I would go with either Seagate or Hitachi.

 

x2. Seagate offers a FIVE year warranty, basically unheard of to have a warranty that long. They also have a very fast and easy RMA system, I've used it before and was quite pleased with it all.

Hitachi has the fastest notebook drive on the market right now, the 7k200. I have two of them in my hp dv9500t and love it. So fast, so quiet, and only consumes 800mA so doesn't get hot like the 1st gen 7200 rpm drives did.

You can't go wrong with Hitachi or Seagate.

 

only hitachi has 7200rpm HDD? i´m looking for a 7200 HDD for my notebook, so i guess i´m going with hitachi!

 

I got problems with Hitachi after a few months, maybe bad luck.
Asus replaced it, now i have a new HD (Segate).
I wonder why they didn't replace it for a new Hitachi...

 

Seagate has 7200rpm drives as well..

 

segate and hitachi are great..nothing at all wrong with the western digital ones or toshiba or maxtor either though.. they all work very well.. imo i would buy a oem version from a vendor like newegg save some money.. no it doesnt come with a 5 year that way but with the money saved in 3-4 years if it fails something larger and faster for the same or less money will be available anyway.. i use western digital currently in my home systems running raid 0 and have yet to ever have a single issue in years with their drives..

 

tomshardware says seagates are faster than hitachi but i generally think seagates are the best bet in notebooks and then next down hitachi who are leading the way with higher volume drives in the 5400rpm market.

eaither way you get good drives

also note that unlike their desktop brothers samsung notebook drives suck as they run hot are slow and are not battery friendly

tho i have 4 drives in my desktop and they are better than western and hitachi so i dont know where they went wrong developing notebook drives maybe the techs had the day off on r&d day

 

The Samsung notebook HDDs run cool and quiet, with below average power consumption. See the Tom's Hardware charts. Hitachi notebook HDDs tend to have the best performance but at the cost of being noisier.

John

 

everyone to their own i guess

 

Haha just realized we have a little English population growing here =) But like John Ratsey, I am currently not home either =(

 

Seagates have never let me down.

 

Any major brand will be just fine. I would be looking for value, rather than being too brand conscious about your purchase. But do stick to a major brand, don't buy HDDs by small manafacturers that you have not heard of, and make sure you Check out Tom's Hardware mobile HDD guide.

 

Whatever you do, don't buy Toshiba or Fujitsu. I've seen more dead drives from those brands than any other brand mentioned. At the repair shop I work at now we've got a box full of dead laptop drives we keep around for the I/O boards (to perform swaps when "bad" drives come in for data recovery). Care to guess which brands fill up that box?
Very few Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi drives in the box though.