Talk to a person in the IT business.
Looks like Maxtor gave the biggest profit margin that is why you find Maxtor being push by all salesman in the PC industry.

He mention for the best quality\reliability is Hitachi follow by Seagate
For best perfomance select WD but noisy and more heat and is good for gaming.

I only use Hitachi and Seagate.

In case you do not know, Hitachi bought over the IBM HDD busineess
some years ago so basically you are buying IBM HDD.

Years ago, mention IBM and you shake your head because you cannot afford anything that is IBM branded.

But now ,IBM HDD and PC is so affordable and I wonder why no one ask for them anymore.

Blackout. HD worst enemy. So get a good HD ... and a good UPS. I had a lot of blackout these few months and my Maxtor 300GB started to give bad sectors. Just 4KB but it's there ... and everytime Windows startup, it always want to check the HD. I've started burning like mad and hopefully maybe i'll get another drive soon. Probably WD.

Seriously, I'm starting to have doubts in toshiba notebook hdds.

My friend's hdd died few weeks ago, then it's another friend's hdd and mine died few days ago. All of us are using toshiba hdds

Got myself a samsung 60 GB due to the limited choice, hopefully it'll work out fine.

alamak..
you bought your Samsung hdd already....
why don't you give it a try for Seagate?!

but never mind, let see how good is the Samsung hdd can last....
later you can tell us how good it is....

for a hdd can last for 5 years, is it consider a good already?
or should be greater than that?

but mine 20G Quantum hdd, still dunning now without giving me any problem,
no bad sectors, no SMART error, none.. nothing...
it's already serving me well for about 6 years...
i predict, it's still can serve me another few more years, i think, let's see how...

i think, hdd can last for 5 years consider ok right? rather than a year problem occurs!! 

does anyone know where to send for warrenty service for WD?

Sometimes I am really curious whether there is such necessity to cool the HDD?  Coz I have not had no problems at all with hard drives since I had a PC.  And my HDDs are always ready and never powered down when idle.

Are you guys in Malaysia getting high HDD temps?

i'm using ati tool software and sometimes its reading is above 50 deg...any suggestion for software to monitor temp...including cpu temp

I noticed something weird. The WD I bought Made in Malaysia, seems to get faulty pretty fast. Last time bought one, in a week got bad sectors. Then exchange. After a month, the new one totally gone. Then exchange for a Made in Thailand batch. Very good indeed. Now whenever I buy WD HDD, I know which one to buy. Just sharing some thing I experience here.

My Seagate 10GB served me well from July 2000 till now. No bad sector at all.

Need you to clarify one question. My colleague says if we buy NOTEBOOK HDD and use it as external/ portable HDD, It doesn't need external casing. He said only the normal size 5.25" HDD need to buy external casing if used as external HDD. Is he right?

How bout portable harddisc?? i planing 2 get one 30-80gb i think... anyone can gimme some hint which brand and where got lower price one in KL ??

i once using seagate hd, and it spoilt when the warranty period is over.. then i buy wd.. b4 warranty period is over, it spoilt too (WTF?)... now im using maxtor 80gb, so far no problem

IBM now bundle pc with western digital hdd too.. i have some time playing with my relative computer when she place the pc over my house for a month for me to fix it...

so far i have 1 maxtor, 40gb bought 4 years ago... still going strong with 24-7 BTing

Western DIgital 160gb... this drive seems idle.. only to store my songs/movie only..

quantum 1gb, throw away edi... still perfect condition after 13 years...regret doing so .....

samsung 20gb... so far so good.. so far yet to crash any hdd b4

Hi all,

Want to ask, is there any good software to scan the HDD for bad sector, physical scan or whatever scan to check if there's any prob with HDD?

Some files on my HDD suddenly become corrupted...want to make sure if the HDD is ok

btw,does using a Raptor makes a noticeable difference compared to normal hdds??what's the price currently for the 76Gb version?

Got a SATAII WD2000JS yesterday for RM315.
Gonna plug in this weekend.

I checked all 3 HDD manufacturer, WD, Seagate and Samsung.

It seems that WD has a much lower power requirement. and seagate only draw power from +12V rail. While the WD and Samsung draw from both +5V and +12V rail My PSU has plently of +5V rail but I doubt +12V has enough, because I think my 6600 overclocked edition(510MHz/1.1GHz) might draw a lot power from +12V rail

AthlonXP 2400+
512MB RAM
1 HDD
1 DVD-ROM
1 PCI card
NO floppy DD
Acbel 300W with +12 @ 14A

im stil using IDE HDD till today. recently i would like to buy a 250GB HDD. which brand u guys recommend?

i hear some forumer say the WD is the good brand for HD, but i have many frenz was having touble when using the WD IDE HDD.....some is only using for few weeks, then need to send back for RMA.....

NOTICE

I have noticed quite a number of people bought "Maxtor QuickView" drives for use with their desktop PCs (and/or for external data storage). Please beware that these drives are NOT meant for proper data storage purposes! Please check the following statement in BOLD RED (source: Maxtor QuickView Hard Drives - Built for your DVR, PVR and Consumer Electronics Devices): FYI: These "QuickView" drives are based on DiamonadMax 10 desktop drives. Regards.

Means that Maxtor QuickView drive will "skip" or drop data from slow sectors or from sectors that contains errors (will NOT retry re-reading the sector). Thus, there may be "gaps" in the data read back.. 

FYI: Normal desktop HDDs wil retry reading slow sectors and/or sectors with errors to ensure the data is available. If the sector could not be read (or found), then it will report an error (such as "cyclic redundancy error" or "bad block") instead of skipping it.. 

Eventhough Seagate meage with Maxtor but somehow the HDD from Maxtor still the same.I think in short period Maxtor will continue with thier old technology.

my mobo (D865PERL)  only supports SATA1... would it be beneficial to get a 16MB cache SATA2?