[cheesepuff]

OK, long story short, i HATE having to deal with hard drives. they always die on me. It seems that the computers from 10 years ago are having original HDD's that still work fine, but all the new ones die within a month or 2. I need 2 drives about 200GB each, that has shown that it wont fail within 2 years, and the same with a 750GB HDD. I need reliability here people. and for the love a god, i cant find it. please help. I dont wana look at more review to confirm the HDD you recommend is reliable, so please read the reviews on it and check for failure rate before leading me to false hope
i have read over 2000 reviews today and i am exhusted.

[serverguy]

Jeez. 2000 reviews?

I normally choose Western Digital Caviars.

Not the fastest, not the cheapest, but IMO some of the best.

I use them in computers I supply with a warranty so the last thing I want is them crapping out. Only had one DOA so far and thats in about 60 of them.

The problem is with reviews, is that people normally only bother to write reviews when they have reason to, like when they fail. You never hear when people have had them for years with no problems. The failiure ratest are always for this reason very inflated. Do you think manufactures would sell them if 1 in 10 failed? I don't think so because the big buyers (Dell, HP, Fujitsu) would soon cancel there million unit plus orders very quickly if that many failed.

Just don't buy a Maxtor. Crikes knows how there still in business!

[cheesepuff]

yeah, that makes sense. although maxtor IS my favorite HDD brand, seeing as i have never had an HDD from them go bad, i cant just rely on them alone. i have to outgrow them and get better bangs for my buck. going on the way you are looking at it, i think i have a line up of drives i need to ask about

I am thinking about getting 2 of these, 1 for each OS (XP Home, and Vista Ultimate 64Bit)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148288
or these instead
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148309
(which is better preformance wise?)

And this would be for the huge ass files i have for all my video games =D (and all the movies i like to make)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136284

any opinions?

[Hybr!d]

Maxtor are crap, everyone I have ever owned personally has failed and many customers too.

I personally only ever buy Western Digital, so far so good.

[cheesepuff]

The Diamond Max 10's were great for me. oh well. but what of the selection above for my new build?

[philthomas]

Stick with Western Digital.

Seagate bought Maxtor out a year or so back and the Seagate drives look identical to Maxtors.
I am not sure whether the takeover meant Maxtors got better and came up to the standard of Seagate or whether Seagate were dragged down to Maxtors level ..... either way I would not chance it.

Western Digital have a good track record, followed by Samsung, although Samsung are a bit new to the scene and not proved over time yet.

[Hybr!d]

Always forget about Samsung, they are up there with Western too. Very good drives.

[philthomas]

Yep .... the only bad report I've had so far about Samsung relates to their 1TB drive.
A colleague of mine used 3 of these in a Server, under heavy use and 2 out of 3 failed.
He replaced them with 4 x 750gb versions and they have been fine ..... so it looks like the 1TB version may have an issue, unless of course he was unlucky and got a bad batch.

[Carbon]

Generally speaking it's usually:

Maxtor -> Hitachi -> Samsung -> WD

WD is excellent, Samsung is pretty good and I would trust them, the other two I wouldn't bother with. Maxtor has horrible failure rates.

[serverguy]

Maxtor are crap. Period.

Seagate are basically Maxtor, and therefore are also crap.

From the HDs you picked out, it appears you went on the reviews. Those reviews are not worth the HTML they are written in.

Pick a Western Digital or a Samsung, and you should have no problems.