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Poll request from KILLorBE, so here it is.
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Who makes the WORST hard drives?
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I've owned 4 IBM's, and each are dead. They don't call em "Deathstars" for nothing.
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The new Hitachi's are the new IBMs (IBM sold them) and they now rock, but the old deathstars did suck.
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I hate WD, 2 HD's i had from them just randomly broke down... So much for quality.
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Never had a drive from any manufacturer break on me really 
Only one I've suffered from is 1 dead Seagate in my 486 Packard Bell, which died after about a month from bad sectors. It's 512MB replacement (also a Seagate) is working to this day though, so I can't really call them unrelable
WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Quantum... No bad experiences with any of them yet.
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Only one I've suffered from is 1 dead Seagate in my 486 Packard Bell, which died after about a month from bad sectors. It's 512MB replacement (also a Seagate) is working to this day though, so I can't really call them unrelable WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Quantum... No bad experiences with any of them yet.
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That's exactly what happened to me.diehrd said:
: I rma'ed one of my Deathstars 3 times, and they died each time. The third time, I in fact told the IBM rep of the HD's awful reputation, and he said he was surprised, they didn't hear of too many having issues with them... 
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I read in Maximum PC magazine about IBM deliberately selling its less than reliable 37 gig hdd's in the OEM market just to dump them off because of known issues with thier reliability. These where hdd's that where returned to the manufacturer by the retailers because there was too high of a return rate on them. I will do some research and see if I can find the same article online. It even has quotes out of an email from one of the higher ups at IBM saying this. Ever since reading that article I have been leary of buying OEM parts from online retailers. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
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Quantum fireball drives are put in many gateways and they die a lot, ive heard/seen it...my friend's died out and lost a lot of a stuff...worst manufacturer imo
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Personally, I have only ever had one harddrive die on me, and it was due to my own mistake. It was working fine before taking it out of my system, and I placed it on the table in the process of moving components. I left it there for a couple days, and forgot it was there, and ended up placing a 12" Type-R subwoofer right next to it. Even though these things are supposed to be resistant to Interference, thats a huge magnet right next to it. Needless to say, it never worked again.
As far as the poll is concerned, I voted IBM, as I have had 2 friends return multiple drives of theirs.
As far as the poll is concerned, I voted IBM, as I have had 2 friends return multiple drives of theirs.
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I've had a few maxtors die on me. So these evil devices get my vote.
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I think over the years I have toasted 5 IBMs, maybe I have owned more of them than other drives, but I see other people have similar experiences.
I also noticed that in the IBM business machines that I maintain at work that they do not put IBM drives in IBM computers. That should be a sign. I think the newer ones that I have all have WD drives.
I also noticed that in the IBM business machines that I maintain at work that they do not put IBM drives in IBM computers. That should be a sign. I think the newer ones that I have all have WD drives.
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Out of the computers I've built for other people, and the computer my family uses, the IBM 120GXP's have been the most reliable. 800JB's have caused several problems for me. The IBM 60GXP's and 75GXP's absolutely sucked, but I'm a big fan of everything IBM/Hitachi from 120GXP up.
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9mmCensor said:
I challenge your statement, my 200gb Hitachi died within 2 months.
I like maxtor myself, but I've had some problems with them, my 40gb died (started getting CRC errors, then it refused to detect in bios one day)
Never had a problem with a western digital drive made post 2002
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And I challenge yours - both 800JB's I've had have caused me problems, and of the 5 120GXP's I've used, they've all been error free for about 3 years. Everyone has different experiences with different drives. Both of us may just be exceptions.
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Yeha I have a IBM 120gxp for about 2 years now and its still chuggin along while I had to return several Western Digital hdds over the past 5 years.
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Whoever voted for Seagate as the worst must die!!!!!
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Ive has a Wd , Maxtor , and ibm all die in the same yr, maxtor is the best to rma through, they use 2nd day air to send back. IBM stick to cpus and that stuff hd aint your place!
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