Does any one know the most reliable brand drives as one of my Quantum Fireball drives just died.
I have use Quantum for some time now and thay are now dieing.
I have four ide IBM drives in my workstation and four scsi SEAGATE drives in my server.
The Quantum drives are in my wifes PC.
I am about to get a couple of new replacements.

Any help on a Reliable brand to try.

Apples.:confused:

For the price i likes quantum...a good price and last years and years...as a matter of fact still using a 2.0G on my machine as a secondary drive - and i thinks its manufactured 1996? Amazing how far things have come:)

Apples

Your Quantum Fireball was it old ?

I buy one in the past and it died after a couple of months and I have change it for an IBM Desktar ;)

More expensive but quality is there ;)

And Maxtor have some good drive very inexpensive a 40 gigs for $99 CDN here in Canada

My Quantum fireball is just 2.5 years old and no warranty as maxtor dont have a record of it. (maxtor does Quantum warranty now ).

I check the price for 40 gig drives prices are AUD.
40.0 gig MAXTOR VIPER 7200 RPM $205
40.0 gig IBM 7200 ATA 100 GXP60 $228
40. gig Seagate 5400 ATA 100 $179
40.0 gig Western Digital 7200 ATA 5 $217

I think it is between Maxtor or IBM?
I dislike Western Digital as thay dont last long, 1.5-2 years is the best I have every got from a drive.

Apples.:confused:

I have 2 IBM.Looks ok.

Hi Folks, if you have lots of hard drives around in many machines (like 1000's), how well they hang in there over time is relatively obvious. In the past Quantum was the best in the long run. Since Quantum was purchased by Maxtor and Maxtor has all that technology now, Quantum drives are not around much any more. In the past year or so the best route to go is with a Maxtor Drive. You will find many "Brand" name makers use Maxtor drives now....;)

may be I will give maxtor drives a go.

Apples.

I was facing the same decision months ago!

and also found out Quantum being bought over by Maxtor!

In the end I got a 60G Maxtor.. and never look back..

I was thinking of getting a bigger HD..
and dump the idea..
because of possible Bios configuration issue..

like one of the poster .. having problem with a 160G HD ending up with only 136G capacity:(

And I don't like the Dynamic overlay either..

Best do some research .. to the Hardware websites..

and you will not regret it later:)

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Always look into IBM and Seagate first.
They are by far the best and more expensive, of course.

Also check out SCSIs, both have tremendous lines.
More expensive than IDE, but much faster!!!

For pricing - ibuyer.net, mallagent.com

Quantum has been very good to me for so many years. My Maxtor died on me after a year. Western Digital isn't bad at all.
Of course, IBM is my picked if I got bucks :D

[quote:c14935a4d0][i:c14935a4d0]Originally posted by Jupiter2k [/i:c14935a4d0]
[b]I was facing the same decision months ago!
and also found out Quantum being bought over by Maxtor!
In the end I got a 60G Maxtor.. and never look back..
[/quote:c14935a4d0]

What's more important than the brand is to make sure that the disk is properly cooled. Todays 7200 rpm big disks need extra cooling if you want them to last. There is a reason why professional servers always have high powered separate fans for cooling the disks.

At the moment IBM is probably your best bet if you are looking for stability.

Thanks for all the replys.
I have just orderd two 40 gig IBM drives and a extra cooling fan for the drive bay area of the case.

I just hope thay last longer than the Quantum drives did.
The second drive just died today.

Thanks again.

Apples :D

I've used all SCSI drives for 4 years now including a CD-RW and a DVD-Ram. I switched from IDE looking for performance
I haven?t been sorry. When I switched, drives were twice the costs of IDE. Now prices are far more reasonable. I use Seagate and WD. Get yourself a good controller, I use a 2940U2 read a little about cables and jumpers and you?ll be ok.

You can add a SCSI drive to your present system. With most BIOS?s you?ll boot to an IDE C: so be sure to migrate your OS to the new drive. Just Drive Image C: to D: make a change to your boot.ini and you?ll be good to go.

Best thing to do would be too look on Google for some reviews. I have read recently that IBM drives have a high enough failure ratio that a class action lawsuit is in progress. If it doesn't fail in the first few months though, they should be ok for the full lifespan.

SCSI is faster and less CPU hungry than IDE/ATA, but still much more expensive.

The class action suit against IBM is regarding the 75 GB version of Deskstar 75GXP (DTLA-307075). It seems that the customers have used this drive without extra cooling, which will wear down the drive very fast. I guess IBM is at least partly to blame, since they didn't inform the customers properly about how to handle the thermal conditions.

The Deskstar 75GXP was redesigned, named 60 GXP and the maximum capacity reduced to 60 GB. (Smaller size means less heat.)
The 60GXP have very recently been redesigned, named 120GXP and the maximum capacity raised to 120 GB.