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Maxtor Vs Western Digital

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Shogo

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Ok, im planning to buy a complete new system, i was just wondering wich HDD

80Go Western Digital 7200rpm ATA100 8Mo 109$CND

or

80Go Maxtor 7200rpm ATA/133 8Mo 113$ CND


, i would go with maxtor but you are experts so tell me what you guys think :p
 
if your options are only between those 2 drives... then get whichever one has the longest warranty.
 
Ditto.

I mean seriously, you'll find people who prefer one over the other, or have a horror story about one, but the other has always been golden. It doesn't really matter. As for reliability, all the major manufacturers are generally equal. Of course you hear stuff like the the IBM DeathStar fiasco, but a lot of their other drives are fine.

I haven't heard anything bad about either. If they have the same warranty period, but the cheaper one. That's about the only difference.

EDIT: Most Reliable Brands
 
Dark Ember said:
if your options are only between those 2 drives... then get whichever one has the longest warranty.
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Agreed
there is effectively no difference in ATA100 and ATA133
it simply represents the maximum burst rate the interface is capable of
and realworld benchmarks have never showed any true advantage
 
Maxtor, wouldnt have it any other way. I have had to many problems with WD and never in the last 5 years, have had 1 problem with maxtor....well, there was that one time, but that was my bad, forgot to plug in the power cord, hehh, woops :D
 
western digital all the way

[other friend] Maxtor all the way

but since the WD has 3 year warranty on a drive not too much more expensive, he even buys the WD
 
I would really get a Samsung or Seagate HDD, but if that's not an option then follow Dark Ember's advice.
 
I used to be a WD fan; I have since branched out and looked into Seagate and Hitachi. Have a 160GB Seagate SATA and a 200 Hitachi PATA. Seagate is nice, it works, but I really REALLY like the quiet, cool, fast as hell Hitachi drive. My vote goes for Hitachi if you can afford one, Seagate if you can't, and Maxtor as a last resort. Maxtor seems to have the FDB thing down, that'll make for a quiet/cool enough solution.
 
Oh, and I own the Western Digital you speak of; It's hot and loud compared to the Seagate and Hitachi I have now.
 
Western Digital All The Way.

Had nothing but WD since 96, not one failure, 12 drives so far.
Got a Maxtor last year because it was $79 for the 120GB 8MB buffer version at BB, and it failed within six months.
 
In my opinion (which Ive expressed more than once)
its probably more important who you buy from, than what your buying
if reliability is the metric

I buy based on performance, warranty and price

Which Brand of Hard Drive is Most Reliable? @ SR FAQ
Proper Handling Guide @ Seagate

and my favorite Quote from it
As a result of the impact, tiny indentations can be formed. The material ejected from this impact is scattered about the disc, and when the drive is powered up the heads will pass over this indentation and the ejected material. This can be the equivalent of running over a bowling ball in a go-cart traveling at Mach 813.
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:eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Of course- still irks me to this day that I couldn't find a seagate drive with a 3 year warranty, though I think they can be found now. Course, with the price range this guy is looking for (the 80GB price range) it's kind of a moot point; he listed all of his alternatives already.
 
Shogo said:
Ok, im planning to buy a complete new system, i was just wondering wich HDD

80Go Western Digital 7200rpm ATA100 8Mo 109$CND

or

80Go Maxtor 7200rpm ATA/133 8Mo 113$ CND


, i would go with maxtor but you are experts so tell me what you guys think :p
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ive got a 160 gig WD that i made into an external... sitting right next to me right now and i dont hear a thing... i have to try to hear it spin up. and no there isnt a fan on my enclosure making it harder to hear.
 
Ice Czar said:
In my opinion (which Ive expressed more than once)
its probably more important who you buy from, than what your buying
if reliability is the metric

I buy based on performance, warranty and price

As a result of the impact, tiny indentations can be formed. The material ejected from this impact is scattered about the disc, and when the drive is powered up the heads will pass over this indentation and the ejected material. This can be the equivalent of running over a bowling ball in a go-cart traveling at Mach 813.

:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Czar, you know I respect your opinion, and value it greatly, for years you have steered me correctly, but seriously, dude, you're gonna fuck up some poor Noobs confidence in installing a hard drive. :eek:
 
Not even Western Digital offers a three-year warranty any more on their 7200RPM hard drives. The ones with an 8MB buffer used to be called the "Special Edition" drives, with a three-year warranty. But now that most new IDE/ATA hard drives have an 8MB buffer, the warranty on 7200RPM Western Digital hard drives is now the same one-year warranty as everyone else's warranty.
 
DeepFreeze said:
Czar, you know I respect your opinion, and value it greatly, for years you have steered me correctly, but seriously, dude, you're gonna fuck up some poor Noobs confidence in installing a hard drive. :eek:
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familiarity breeds contempt :p

Ive always sounded a note of caution
when it comes to the cavalier attitude
so commonly expressed on these forums
if everyone wasnt compulsive upgraders
ESD & Power Events (and the subsequent damage)
would be taken more seriously, but as it is
the real pain starts at Data Loss and Corruption
(when backup is lax)

there are really only two physical integration cautions anyone has to follow
treat your HDDs like nitro (no bumping, stacking ect)
and Ground yourself and works-space properly

Ive avoided loosing a single HDD so far, and only a single stick of RAM
and no CPUs :D
 
You honestly cannot go wrong with WD, Maxtor, or Seagate. Just make sure you buy retail drives not OEM.
 
I work for a company with ~5000+ computers, and the most hard drives that fail are indeed Maxtor HDs. They'll replace them with WD or Seagate, computers works fine after that..

I would go with Seagate or WD.

MJZ_5
 
WD SE OEM drives carry a 3yr warranty, and why buy retail over oem? so you get a pretty box, a cable, and 4 screws for an extra 30$? :p
 
Actually, the OEM WD I bought had a 3 year warranty (WD1600JB), whereas all I see in retail are 1 years (with some exceptions). Plus, barring rebates (which are stupid), retail drives are comparatively much more expensive than an OEM drive or a drive you buy online.

I've used Seagates, Western Digitals, and Maxtors, and I like Western Digital the most because they usually seem to give pretty good performance compared to the other two, but other than that, they're all pretty much the same. I just use WDs more, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Seagate, Hitachi (formerly IBM Deskstars), Maxtor.
 
FLECOM said:
Seagate > *
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Amen to that. My first drive, the WD1200JB, was really loud. It was that constant whine that drove me insane -- it was easily the loudest thing in my entire machine. I now have a 120GB Seagate 7200.7 Barracuda (ST3120026A) with the 8MB cache. I can't even hear that thing running, except for when it seeks. I like seek noise. I now use the WD for backups, and it's unplugged when not needed.
 
leukotriene said:
Neither.
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I'm in the market of buying a new HD and well. I'd just like to thank you for linking this , cause I'm going to buy this one. Can't beat that deal IMO.
 
it may have just been a bad batch, but i bought 2 Maxtor 120GB drives at the same time from Newegg.com, and both of them were DOA. i returned them for 2 WD 120GB drives, and they have performed flawlessly ever since, and still are (knock on wood....). that said, i have also had about 4 or 5 other Maxtor drives before that, and i never had a problem with any of them.

bottom line:

Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, etc., etc., etc., are for the most part all good drives.....just get whatever you can get the best warranty on for the best price.
 
For the record, I've had three bad hard drives since I've started building my own PC systems back in 1997. All three were Maxtors: The first 4.3GB, 5200rpm, 256K cache DiamondMax 2160 drive that I bought developed weird noises. It was RMA'd and exchanged for one that had already had bad sectors - bad enough so that Windows wouldn't install at all on that drive - rendering it DOA. That was RMA'd and exchanged for another 4.3GB 5200rpm 256K drive, which I later sold. The third drive that pooped out was a 40GB, 7200rpm, 2MB cache DiamondMax D740X drive that made clicking noises after just one month in service, and then running the Maxtor diagnostic program revealed that the drive had problems. This time, I didn't bother RMA'ing the drive, because I wanted to upgrade to a larger-capacity drive at the time.
 
Well, I have/own a WD 80 GB JB drive and a Maxtor 120GB Sata drive.

The Maxtor drive seek noises are really loud. I normally like to hear the heads chatter, but it seems a bit excessive in this drive.

THe WD has an even more obnoxious WHINE from the drive, that seems to be getting louder as time passes (yes, I am regularly backing up data from that system and already planning a drive replacement).

I've installed 3 Samsung and 1 seagate drives in other people's comps recently, and all were MUCH quieter than either of the two drives I own. The samsungs even have a 3 year warranty.

BB
 
My dad recently got a maxtor 120... it is quite the noise maker compared to the 200gb WD... Both are 7200rpm 8mb cache drives.

Personally never had any problems with WD.
Seagate is reliable and quiet.
Samsung and Hitachi are nice too.
 
mwarps said:
Western Digital All The Way.

Had nothing but WD since 96, not one failure, 12 drives so far.
Got a Maxtor last year because it was $79 for the 120GB 8MB buffer version at BB, and it failed within six months.
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Agreed. My WD never a problem, Maxtor likes to go in the shitter after six months.
 
Several months ago I had a single ibm deathstar still rocking after 4 years!!!!

Anyway I got a maxtor for more capacity and I suddenly realized how loud the ibm was (couldn't tell the maxtor was there except startup whirl)

Now the deathstar died (finally) and I got a WD to replace it. I thought the maxtor was quiet the WD is even quieter... especially on seeks I can't even hear it seek whereas I can here the maxtor seek.
 
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