Which brand have the lowest hard disk failure rate?

Maxtor Always SOT one !

Then,what brand has the lowest failure rate?

I have used Maxtor,Samsung and Hitachi.All of them also got HDD failure.Worst one is Samsung.

Why does all the HDD these days fail so easily?I dont torrent at all but still die.

IMO Western Digital has the lowest failure rate. I may be biased because most of my friends are using WD... And have never complained it has failed before. Over the last 3 computers i had ranging from year 2000 until now all WD HDD are still in perfect working order with S.M.A.R.T. still showing OK status.
Oh yeah Btw, i do torrents heavily and back my data up frequently but it has been 3 years and everything is still fine.

Hmm... maybe should get a WD HDD.

metoo... torrent heavily... Maxtor doesnt fail me at all leh... zzz

I used 2Xseagate(pentium 1-1gb only,throw already and my current core2quad),1Xquantum(pentium 3-still using till now),1Xmaxtor(pentium 4- kena bad sector 100+ MB,formatted it to skip tht 100mb of space solved the problem) and hitachi(centrino laptop, i found it very slow). so far seagate and quantum never fails on me.but then i feel tht WD also quite good since most cybercafe around klang valley here also use them.imagine le.they got so many customers a day.and they din die easily.

off topic: i missed the old quantum days and i'm still using my old quantum katana 7200rpm till now as my secondary storage.very very reliable.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Jun 24 2008, 11:38 AM

wd400jb is the best heavily torrenting for the past 5 yrs, even right now it gave klak, klak sound also still can use

maxtor 20gb, 40gb and 80gb, dead at end date of factory warranty
still got one more maxtor: 250gb still alive, hope its not ends like their little brother

Seems like WD is the best.I'll get one then.

Just one question,does anyone know where got sell 2.5inch 250GB 7200rpm HDD?

hoping to get another 320gb hdd soon. from what i've seen here, the hdds with less failure rate are seagate and WD rite? price wise WD seems to be slightly cheaper than seagate. btw, what's the diffrence between seagate non sv35 series and the sv35 ones?

Just use my new Sata 320GB .. and after 15 days, it sound "klak .. klak" .. end of it's life?

lolz... what brand is it?

give u problem...then might be...

well my 1 weeks old wd 320gb just slow down.....
use hd tach to test it only have 3.2mb transfer speed..
format the pc and the disk the problem solved.
dont know whats wrong though...

hitachi sucks big time...high failure rate...hehe...
i think i'll go for WD next time...

I try to check with Seatools, but everything fine, no bad sector or any problem found , only the "klak klak" sound .. seriously, it's irritating .. If sent for a warranty, Seagate of course will send me a second hand hard disk even that the HDD only ages more than 1 month ..

Hitachi brand is scary,use 1 month then whole HDD kong.

wow home come many ppl here face probs with hitachi..mine nearly a year already..so far no probs..hopefully it doesnt KO soon...

Using Maxtor 160GB for 2 years, no problem.

Scary leh if HDD got problem, all my songs and pictures gone T_T

yupz.. thats why we need to do backup..