Who's the best in making harddrives?

Title says all.

What's the best harddrive brand out in the market? Western Digital? Hitachi? Seagate?

 

Hitachi I think they have a 1 Tb drive that runs very fast. forgot the specs but Maximum PC said that it was the fastest high capacity drive and that it is the most spacious high capacity drive. Note this is for Desktops not laptops. As for laptops best HDD is seagate.

 

I don't think there is a correct answer. I like Hitachi. Seagate has the best warranty, WD has it's fans also! You may have picked the 3 best without much argument? But someone might come in and talk up Fujitsu, Toshiba. Good luck getting the answer.

 

hitachi wins on reliability.

 

I think that this one may be based more on people's opinions rather than facts. I prefer Seagate in my notebook as its been bloody good, when i upgrade i'm going to go for another seagate. The girlfriend has had two Samsung hard drives in her laptop inthe last year. The replaced one has now started ticking!

 

I would go with the 7k200 hitachi, have a 7200.1 seagate at the moment and dont rate it. Had a 7k60 in my old laptop and that flew, will be going for a 7k200 shortly.

 

Who is my favorite hard drive manufacturer? Is that was you mean Howie?

My favorite brand is Seagate. Never had a problem with a Seagate HDD. After having 4 failures on my Western Digital school harddrive which is a desktop harddrive inside an inclosure. I got tired of RMAing and replaced it with a Seagate HDD. Its worked fine for the last year.

 

Been trough 2 Hitachi in 4 years in my previous laptop, never changed a Seagate.

 

I have had probs with WD's, I really do want to stay away from them. I really think the best HD manufacture just might be the one with the best warranty. Seagate

 

I've had a good experience with Hitachi. Most of my machines have deskstars or travelstars that are going strong after several years of heavy use. My only WD on the other hand has been making ugly sounds in its second year of operation...

 

I have been trough 6 Seagate's in 2 years in my previous laptop, never changed a Hitachi.

I made that up just wanted to stick up for Hitachi! No disrespect meant to poster I copied, I was bored. All are good none of us can say which is better other than personal experience including me so all 3 and more are good. Look at price, speed and 5 year warranties mean nothing when manufacturing defects show up much sooner.

 

All of the Seagats I have owned have not had any problems at all after 5 years of being treated like crap and the new Seagate barracudas are much quieter than any other hard drives i've seen

 

I have 2 laptop drives, Hitachi and a Samsung. Both are over 2 years old and so far no problems.

 

My job involves replacing defective notebook drives. Over two years time, I have replaced 15 Toshiba, 2 Western Digital and 1 Seagate.

 

HITACHI...

as a tech,, i've RMA'd hundreds if not thousands of HDDs.... and i have yet to replace a Hitachi because it failed durring the warranty period.

both WD and SEGATE have had bad HDD designs in thier past... i won't even go into the Quantum BIGFOOT

what a POS that was... but i'll take a REAL Quantum over any other desktop HDD

 

Big O, you dont understand, the bigfoot was an amazing drive it had two 5.25" platters. That thing was a beast. The motor was not mouned underneath the disk, but rather at the side and it had a belt drive run the disks. It was really cool, I have a few of them and they rock, not as good as the fireball's though, they gave them a good name, cause those things got hot.

Hitachi has been #1 in my book for years, only had to return one of them because a refurbished one came in my brothers desktop. We rma'ed the refurb drive and Hitachi gave us a brand new one in return.

Seagate, I have rma'edd more of them than I can count on my hands.
WD, I had bought a bunch of drives from them a few years back, and it must have been a bad batch, cause almost 37 of the 40 I bought were dead on arrival. I rma'ed them and got the same crap back, so I dont do business with them anymore.

Hitachi FTW

K-TRON

 

For general consumer HDDs: WD if you want reliability.

Maxtor if you want an expiration period of 5 years.