I have tried WD, Seagate, Quantum, Maxtor. Never had a faulty drive before. I guess 90% of the time it depends on how u handle your disk to ensure they work nicely

weii.. i been using my quantum fireball for almost 8 year already.. still serve me well... the minus part is the only 4 GB only..,.. currently still function with my old trusty PC....

my new pc using Samsung SP1213N 120GB....but last week. give up on me,.. dunno just suddenly cannot detect... now in RMA.... shissss....

i've use maxtor 40gb b4.. in a year got a lot of bad sector already.. then change to 80gb maxtor also(coz the cheapest ).. right now im using it about 1 year.. 2 partition there 40/40.. everytime each partition got less than 1gb space, the partition started to lost.. windows only detected one partition after boot.. but luckily can format.. even loss the data after formatting working normal again.. this thing happen twice to me.. so i need to left more than 1gb space in each partition to avoid data loss..

i oso dunno y u all say maxtor is bad...but i dunno how bad for maxtor hdd ...
so far for me...quite ok loh... mb my luck so good didt getting any bad sector from maxtor hdd...

yeah maybe u lucky one.. neway i've many bad experience with maxtor from myself either my clients..

OMG!..
sad to hear that, i thought Samsung might be good!!!
no choice, maybe the last and the only hdd you can purchase is Seagate...
any other hdd to recommend?
is hitachi still available in the market? seldom see IBM, hitachi selling around in Low Yat, plus dunno how is the reliability will be...

this is true....
many people facing this problem...
as for my previous office PC, when i started to work there, they change new hdd for me, not more than a year bad sector occur...!!!!!!!
my friends also having the same problem, another one is much more worse, not more than a month then something wrong with the hdd. do you think the rtail shop selling old stock and this happen because of this?

When I got my Maxtor, the salesperson emphasised only one rule when buying HDDs:

Made In Singapore only. I'm starting to think that he may be right.

I second that. The last time I checked, Hitachi is the official storage provider for Alienware systems, so that alone speaks of it's edge over other manufacturers. I'd get a Hitachi HDD on 1st sight, no kidding.

Why only made in singapore?
As i know,not all brands have factories in Singapore.
how abt hitachi?

some maxtor hdd made in china so look carefully before buy it.

omg..!!!
i never look it properly...
i think my hdd was made in malaysia.

speaking about china made...
the goods are indeed ver cheap...
somehow the quality not good as last time.

i got my kingstone ram was made in USA, use untill not and no blue screen happen..!!
very amazing...
but at that time i bought very expansive, 128mb = RM500+
stability and quality awesome...

Hear ye! Hear ye! This just in (though I'm not surprised at all considering Maxtor current financial situation)

• Seagate Technology to Acquire Maxtor Corporation
  
• Seagate agrees to buy Maxtor for $1.9 bln - WSJ
  
• Seagate Reaches $1.9 Billion Deal To Buy Hard-Disk Rival Maxtor

Once upon a time, Maxtor gobbled up Quantum, and now Seagate takes over Maxtor. I wonder if the SeaCare centers will now cater for Maxtor RMAs as well..

where to get hitachi HDD ?

SOS!! URGENT HELP NEEDED!! my company's harddisk just died ... IDE cant detect it at all and after plug it into a external harddisk casing (IDE to USB), it still wont work or the PC didnt detect it at all!!

All this started when i backup my WD content into the Samsung so i can format the WD ... the backup content was about 20GB which i copied it into the Samsung's D drive, after formating the WD, the nxt thing was to transfer all the Samsung backup content back to WD .... with the Samsung acting as the master and WD as the slave.

Halfway during the transfer, the PC(Samsung = master) hang .... after waiting for so long and still no respond, i reset it and the nxt thing i know is that the Samsung wont boot up anymore nor the BIOS can detect it at all.

Is there anyway i can still retreive back the Samsung content even if it means sending back to the factory as its still under warranty i think? The content innit is so very important i belive it will cost me my job HELP!!

wow!!!
lex, where do you get those info?
i wonder how they got so much of capital take over Quantum!!!!!
Quantum, please revive!!!!

What's so good about Quantum?

Anyway I just hope seagate doesnt cater Maxtor rma

i got a 20G Quantum hdd..using it untill now...
it has been using for 5 years+
no bad sectors and error...
quite stable...

unlike the WD hdd i bought last year, not more than a year has SMART error.

that's why i said it was good!

This post has been edited by victorboy: Dec 22 2005, 01:53 AM

what happen to Quantum ?
If they produce good hdd they should stay longer?

u can enquiry at lyp level 4 for tis kinds of service.

hey guys...im planning to get an external hard disk and dono which brand to choose since u guys post alot of stuffs online..after reading it memang blur gila...hehe....and btw im using apple ibook and im worried if theres possibiblity if i bought tat hdd and then its not compatible wit my os x or wat?....thanks alot guys...