Poll: Hard drive failures

[The Sauce]

I was just wondering if IBM really is the biggest offender or if it is just trendy to bash them lately. I personally have never had a HDD fail on me so I'm voting for none. If you have had multiple drives crash just vote for the brand that either had the most drives fail or the newest drive fail.

PS - Oh, and try to limit responses to the past 24 months so as to avoid commenting on outdated drive technology.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

This poll is definately going to give IBM a bad name(again). They're still a high quality brand for SCSI though, and that's all that matters in my book.

EDIT: My vote goes to Maxtor though...

 

[WilsonTung]

I had an IBM Travelstar fail on me 6 months ago - but I don't know why it clunked out.

 

[Woody419]

I have used both WD and Maxtor and over the years both brands have failed before the 3 year warranty expired. Both companies have replaced the drives quickly. Needless to say I always have a full system backup. I am beginning to doubt that any hard drive made recently will last longer than 3 years.

 

[conlan]

None of my Maxtors have failed (knock on wood)

 

[Czar]

<< None of my Maxtors have failed (knock on wood) >>


same here

 

[PHiuR]

1 samsung 20gigs - 2years
1western 60gigs - 1year
1western 45gigs- 2 years
1western6.5 - 3 years
1 maxtor(2gigs) 5 years still working...

all the drives are still working fine... =] no bad sectors! at all!

 

[SaturnX]

IBM 75GXP 30GB - Going strong for almost 2 years now
Maxtor D740X 60GB - Going strong since February.

--Mark

 

[Siddhartha]

I voted IBM but in retropect I had a WD crap on me more recently than the IBM.

 

[WyteWatt]

I had no HDs fail on me so far. But i only owned Maxtor HDs so far. No IBMs at all. I almost brought a IBM 15 or 30 gig 75 gxp series HD but thank goodness i did not. Good thing i check hardware in great detail or i would of had to deal with all of that stuff.

 

[WyteWatt]

Also i do love IBM HD speeds i just want a stable HD first then speed. I know all HDs can fail at times.

 

[Challenger]

One Maxtor failure out of at least fifty and that one was within a month of the end of it's warranty

 

[microAmp]

WD 7 Gig for 3 years
WD 20 Gig for 2 years
IBM 25 GXP? 25 Gig for 2 years.

WD120JB yet to see if it's ok just got it in, will see tomorrow.

No failures yet, knock on wood.

 

[Noriaki]

Only hard drive I've ever had fail was a 6.4GB Maxtor 5400RPM.

Though they were really quick on the RMA.


However, I'm beginning to have doubts about my 75GXP 30Gig....

I've had windows die out on me twice in the last 2 weeks (Windows 2000 SP2) and the most recent time when I re-installed it I heard some funny noises coming from the vicinity of my hard drive.

 

[DoOLiE11]

all my ibms have failed one time or the other.....

but eh its ok.


i think i'm goona go back to seagates

 

[Paulson]

2 western digitals have died on me...

The replacement drives work better than the originals...

a 40 gig 7200RPM & a 60 gig 7200RPM...

 

[bjc112]

does DOA count ?

 

[Maggotry]

I've only had 1 HD failure. It was a 17GB (?) Seagate. It was about 1 year old at the time of demise.

 

[Strych9]

The only drive I've ever had fail was Maxtor. But I still think they are quality drives and own several including a couple of new D740X's.

 

[denon]

My IBM 75GXP 30GB just crapped out on me. The drive lasted about 1.5 yrs and then went from good to dead in about 2 days. I decided to replace it with a WD1200JB drive. I'm getting the IBM back due to warranty, I just didn't want to wait and really wanted a more dependable drive.

 

[BFG10K]

I've never had any HDs fail on me but then I stick to Seagate for all of my needs.

 

[Wayward]

I've had one drive go bad, a Seagate Barracuda 9.1 GB wide SCSI. They RMA'd quickly.

 

[chaswood]

Never had a failure, but currently have a noisy Maxtor 20gb on my kids' machine that sounds like it could go anytime.

One small issue with this poll is that, if the percentage of failures was exactly the same for all brands, then the most popular drives would get the worst marks.

So far Samsung looks like the most reliable drive. How many of you have ever owned a Samsung?

 

[Sundog]

/DOH...was just thinking about this...

 

[WyteWatt]

bump.