Hard drive manufacturer recos

[Ken]

I am interested in recos for a reliable, quiet hdd in larger format
(50GB to 1 T) for storage of my film DVDs.

Once upon a time there was a website that did comparisons of various
qualities of hdd's including noise, speed, real-life read-writes, but I
cannot remember the name.

The other thing is the question of reliability. My assumption is that if
I can find a hdd with a warranty of more than 1 year, it is probably a
higher quality than one that only has one year. Is that a reasonable
assumption? The bottom line is that I want to stay away from any
drives/manufacturers that are dogs.

Thanks
Ken K

 

[Rod Speed]

I am interested in recos for a reliable, quiet hdd in larger format (50GB to 1 T) for storage of my film DVDs.

I like Samsung myself.

Once upon a time there was a website that did comparisons of various qualities of hdd's including noise, speed,
real-life read-writes, but I cannot remember the name.
storagereview.com

The other thing is the question of reliability. My assumption is that if I can find a hdd with a warranty of more than
1 year, it is probably a higher quality than one that only has one year.

The only drives with 1 year warrantys now are externals.

Is that a reasonable assumption?

Nope, the same drives have a 1 year warranty when in an external housing now.

The bottom line is that I want to stay away
from any drives/manufacturers that are dogs.

Then avoid Seagate because they have absorbed Maxtor and those were the biggest dogs,
and Seagate is the only one manufacturing in china and that shows in the reliability of the drives.

 

[Ken]

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:

I like Samsung myself.


The only drives with 1 year warrantys now are externals.


Nope, the same drives have a 1 year warranty when in an external housing now.


Then avoid Seagate because they have absorbed Maxtor and those were the biggest dogs,
and Seagate is the only one manufacturing in china and that shows in the reliability of the drives.

Thanks for the info. Storagereview.com is what I had forgotten.

KK

 

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Rod Speed wrote in news:[email protected]

I like Samsung myself.


The only drives with 1 year warrantys now are externals.


Nope, the same drives have a 1 year warranty when in an external housing now.


Then avoid Seagate because they have absorbed Maxtor and those were the
biggest dogs,

and Seagate is the only one manufacturing in china

Nonsense, so is Hitachi. And they both manufacture elsewhere too.

and that shows in the reliability of the drives.

Pathetic really.

 

[Ken]

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:

I like Samsung myself.


The only drives with 1 year warrantys now are externals.


Nope, the same drives have a 1 year warranty when in an external housing now.


Then avoid Seagate because they have absorbed Maxtor and those were the biggest dogs,
and Seagate is the only one manufacturing in china and that shows in the reliability of the drives.

Are any of the Western Digital drives acceptable?

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:
Are any of the Western Digital drives acceptable?

I generally avoid them myself tho I did use them at one time.

Mainly because they had a silly jumpering scheme for a long time,
and were very late with fluid bearings, problems with use in external
housings and didnt really have too much in their favor.

Only the last of those is true now, and the RE2 is interesting, lower power than many drives.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:
Are any of the Western Digital drives acceptable?

The 1TB GPs cause frequent command timeouts. I have one and will not
risk another.

Arno

 

[Ken]

The 1TB GPs cause frequent command timeouts. I have one and will not
risk another.

Arno

How does one recognize command timeouts? (Also, what does GP stand for?)

 

[Arno Wagner]

How does one recognize command timeouts? (Also, what does GP stand for?)

WD "GP" series. The command timeouts are in the system log
(under Linux, did not try it under Windows) and I have one
enclosure that completely disables the disk frequently, since
it cannot deal with these timeouts.

Arno

 

[Ken]

WD "GP" series. The command timeouts are in the system log
(under Linux, did not try it under Windows) and I have one
enclosure that completely disables the disk frequently, since
it cannot deal with these timeouts.

Arno

Thanks.