Hard drive - Which do you prefer, Maxtor or Samsung?

**Computer Spec** · #1 10th Sep 2006, 17:15

My mate once told me that I should always buy a Maxtor Hard drive because they are better, but are they? I currently have a standard Samsung which came with PC and it seems fine to me, he said with Maxtor your guranteed quality & that it will work for a long time.

Is this true about maxtor hard drives or is this just a reputation they have built?

**Hybr!d** · #2 11th Sep 2006, 10:33

In my experience Maxtor drives are pretty cheap and unreliable.

I use western digital for my personal machine as I heard they are leagues above others, but, more expensive.

Dave.

**Computer Spec** · #3 11th Sep 2006, 13:08

I've never heard of western digital but I suppose there is so many brands its impossible to know them all, I do have a Maxtor h/d and I didn't think it was cheap, but then again I didn't have anything to compare it to.

Although I have my Maxtor h/d doesn't seem anything different from my cheap standard drive, but again I guess you cant tell the difference, so when do you know if your buying your moneys worth?

**Wizard** · #4 12th Sep 2006, 10:26

If you don't mind me asking what are h/d ? Sorry if I sound a bit slow but I'm a middle aged woman trying to get to grips with computers. So any advice and tips you can give me would be appreciated.

**CG Man** · #5 21st Sep 2006, 21:08

H/D - Hard Drive, Hard Disk if your an IT woman.
PSU - Power Supply Unit
Mobo - Motherboard
GPU - Graphics Processor

I was using Seagate Hard drives then Western digital both types failed within 2 years so I'm now on Maxtor drives. The Maxtors I baught were the higher performance ones that cost more than the other Maxtor drives. So far after one and a half years they have had no problems.

So they don't pack in too early make sure their is a fan at the front of the case blowing over it. They get a bit warm and thats what the front fan is for some brand computers skimp on the fans.

**Glitch** · #6 25th Sep 2006, 11:46

Well we can sit and discuss how much better maxtors are or how much more worse they are but as of this year maxtor is being made by seagate...in the same factory, just different stickers. Maxtor is actually droping its lower line and being the high preformance section of seagate. Supposedly (after viewing seagates website) Maxtor will not make anymore normal grade HDs after 2008.