Favoured HDD's

[HDD_MASTER]

Thought I would start a new topic on HHD brands and who favours what. This stems from some people choosing Samsungs. I agreed up until recently. I bought a load of 1Tb Samsungs based on the HD501LJ drives I had (these have proved to be my favs, possibly ever) and the 1TB drive overheat all the time and reset to a stupid LBA.

All these can be solved easy but I should not have to do repairs on good drives.

So come on people what are your favourite drive.

For storage and general use as well as for doing data recovery (physical work)

[shahij]

Already discussion about the topic brand-question-t9728.html

[HDD_MASTER]

Well I do apologise to everyone. Maybe next time Ill trawl through all posts to see if a question has been posted before. It would have been interesting to get an up to date idea as stated in my main paragraph about my Samsung tastes changing but there we go.

Silly me for thinking peoples tastes and choices change with time and that new members of the forum may want to air their opinions

[guru]

Raptors for me.. Never had one fail and never seen one come in for recovery... Maybe I am just lucky :O)

[drc]

WD6400AAKS... blazingly fast and haven't seen any issues yet with them or the single-platter WD3200AAKS that is the same tech.

[hddguy]

I would have said Seagate every time, but then they released the 7200.11

[drc]

I would have said Seagate every time, but then they released the 7200.11

And the 7200.10, and the 5400.2, and the 5400.3...

[wiseleo]

I like my Seagates. Seen some drives that are almost uniformly <3ms on MHDD scan screen. Haven't seen a 7200.11 of that capability yet.

[thatdellguy]

We phased out all Seagate/IBM/Hitachi hard drives used for imaging back in Jan 2008. We won't even sell one to a customer unless they really want one. Seagate has a great 5-year warranty but it's useless if we need to use it every month.

[Russwinters]

WD6400AAKS... blazingly fast and haven't seen any issues yet with them or the single-platter WD3200AAKS that is the same tech.

These drives are amazing for performance, I have the 640AAKS myself and I love it, it actually beats the older raptor in many benchmarks (not the velociraptor though)

Of course this is a WD so if the drive fails and you must recover from it, there is always the issue with the heads, but it should be less prominent since this is only a 2 platter drive, with a ramp also (always makes things easier)



I think there are pros and cons to any brand, I don't really see any brand standing out completely from any others; hard drives are mechanical devices that all have a chance of failure, and such back-ups should ALWAYS be used, no matter how new, or "reliable" you brand/model drive's track record is.

Personally, I say go for the drive with the best performance possible, and make sure you keep a good backup, and you can't go wrong.