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fliptw
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by fliptw » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:03 am
mandatory text.
I have owned all of the listed poll options, btw.
Scorch
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by Scorch » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:15 am
I have owned all but Seagate, and WD has been the most reliable for me.
Tetrad
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by Tetrad » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:19 am
Keep in mind that IBM drives are now labeled as Hitachi.
I've owned all of those as well, and the one I like the least is Maxtor.
STRESSTEST
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by STRESSTEST » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:27 pm
Flip, quit being such a poll whore
fliptw
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by fliptw » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:47 pm
STRESSTEST wrote: Flip, quit being such a poll whore
Whatever Icon Pimp
AceCombat
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by AceCombat » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:16 pm
WD for me aswell
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by Tricord » Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:07 pm
WD for me, although I used to be a seagate fan.
Very bad experiences with Maxtor (incl. fabulous delays when RMA'ing defective drives)..
Krom
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by Krom » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:59 pm
WD
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by Delkian » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:14 pm
I have a Hitachi disk right now, it's nice except that it makes some annoying noise.
I won't comment on the reliability because I've only had a few hard drives ever and to draw any conclusion from my own experience I'd need to have experience with much, much more disks. One broken disk - or a few that worked - wouldn't really prove anything.
For reliability check
StorageReview.com .
MD-2389
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by MD-2389 » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:26 pm
Definitely Maxtor. I can't speak for current WD drives, but I've had nothing but trouble out of their drives in the past.
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by Jeff250 » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:12 am
I had a WD crash on me before years and years ago, so I had been using Maxtors (very pleased with them), but I can't knock my WD Raptors, so WD got my vote.
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by JMEaT » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:44 am
wd
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by Warlock » Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:21 am
Xciter wrote: No option for IDE sucks... darn
no SAtA sucks cause of the 1 drive per channle BS
i use Maxtor IDEs and Seagate for SCSI