Hi,

I was speaking with a friend today that claims Maxtor > WD for reliability of hard drives. I am wondering how many other people have found this true. I am currently running a RAID-0 on top of two WD SATA drives and *knocks on wood* no problems in a year. Regardless, I still backup every other night.

Thanks!
George

I prefer Seagate, then Maxtor.

both also ok wat.......

Yes I have used and like both drives.

Both are good. I have used more Western Digital drives than Maxtor but prefer Seagate.

If people said that one mechanical hard drive manufacture is more reliable than the other mechanical hard drive manufacture, then they are complete idiots. The amount of mechanical hard drives that are reliable in this world is none. If you want a reliable hard drive, look into solid state hard drives. I never will say that mechanical hard drives are reliable because they are just not. Mechanical hard drives eventually fail. The question is when is very, very hard to answer.

For speed (low accessing times or very low latency) for an OS, I will either buy IBM/Hitachi or Western Digital hard drives. Throughput never is good for an OS drive. RAID-1 is good to use for an OS or file server because two or more files can be access at the same time while RAID-0 can only access one file at a time. People do not know any better because they think higher the throughput the faster the system will go.

Ive had two Maxtors fail on me before but never a Seagate, WD from my experience make the most noise.

Every single Maxtor drive I and other members of my family/friends have owned in the past 5 years has failed in some way or another within a few months of the warranty expiring. I've had 2 go on me in the past 3 months alone. I will not ever buy maxtor again.

edit: There was no mistreatment of these drives, they have been used in normal small business or home settings, no undue stress put on them.

They might be cheap drives, but I would rather spend the extra money and know that my data will be safe.

Look at how many "refurbished" maxtors are on this site:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...0Disk%20Drives

I know it might not be an accurate example, but just the pure fact that I rarely hear people complain about seagate/wd as much as maxtor.

I have switched to Seagate, and am quite impressed with their products. fairly cheap for excellent features.

My list is Seagate > IBM (Hitachi does the drives now?) > Western Digital.

Did have a bad batch of WD's one time, and yes, even Seagates fail sometimes. However, I've had quite poor luck with Maxtor's not even lasting a year. Hard drives in general seem to be much less reliable than they used to be.

As another side note, I've had better luck with SCSI than ATA, *except* for 15k rpm SCSI drives which seem to be the least reliable overall (really hard to keep them cool).

I wish I had kept track of all the exact numbers on these things, would have been interesting to see if my above "feelings" are accurate or not

Moved: This thread is more suitable in General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Mod note: Not truly a Linux question. Recommendation requests are fairly subjetive, and obviously each person's view will be highly skewed by his/her own experiences. For my 2 cents, I'd go with WD

Judge by the standard warranty a manufacturer offers. Seagate offers a minimum of 5 (five) years across the board - 7 years on some models. That a company is willing to take on a liability like that tells you that their MBTF may be reliable, vs. the likes of Western Digital or Maxtor who knocked the warranty on many|most of their products to one year.

I've had both Maxtors and Western Digitals and don't have a problem with either one of them. The only real difference I can tell is that the Western Digital is a lot quieter, even though it's a bigger hard drive (Maxtor = 120 GB, WD = 160 GB).

Am I actually seeing this? Because something about that just sounds wrong.

My favorite HD so far is a Samsung 160Gb SATA drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152020
I have had 3 Maxtors fail me, but they will all eventually give up the ghost. If I get another HD soon, it will be a Samsung.

I didn't even know I had any Samsungs until one failed last night... Ah well, it was a fairly old 2GB drive.