Samsung's hard drive division purchased by Seagate. - Polidicks

sorry I couldn't hear this news over the sound of my Intel SSD's [editline]24th December 2011[/editline] On a serious note though, how many HDD makers does this leave? Seagate, WD and…?

ITT anecdotal evidence to try and prove a point

Eh, I guess there's still Hitachi for cheap hard drives, though they aren't as reliable as Samsung. But the way the HD market is right now there isn't much of a price difference anyways so, may as well go with Seagate or WD.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;33871864]I've had 3 out of 3 Seagate drives fail and 0 out of 5 WD drives fail[/QUOTE] I've had 0 out of 1 Samsung fail, 0 out of 2 Seagates fail and 0 out of like 5 WD fail. These number are meaningless you know, just because you don't have bad experience with them doesn't mean other people don't..

I've had 0 out of 1 samsung fail and 0 out of 1 WD fail. Failproof :v:

From what I've heard some Seagate series ones are prone to dying fast. I've got one of the 1.5TB 7200.11 ones and I don't know if it's in the group that is known to die fast, but it runs good as of right now. I've only ever had one drive failure and that was with an old IDE drive in a prebuilt, don't even know what brand it was.

I have only good experience with Samsung F1 and F3 drives, both as single drives and in RAID arrays. But only bad experiences with Maxtor. And my notebook hdd's (which all are made by Seagate) are starting to click loudly and have horrendously long access times even on a freshly formatted system.

I've had a bad experience with Maxtor. My Samsung drives work fine.

I bought a WD black, 5 months later it's borked. Bought an F3, a year later it's still running.

[QUOTE=ripple3000;33872673]I'm not happy that you pretty much run OSX.[/QUOTE] awful post

I don't see why people are complaining about seagate hds, mine has been going for well over a year and I've had no problems

One year is very little for a HDD too. If it dies in a year it's a bad HDD. If it dies in less, it's most likely just broken and warranty should cover that.

had two 1.5tb seagates running in raid 0 for about a year now, and a single 1.5tb funning on its own about a year before that, never had any problems then again my 640gb samsung has been going strong for the 3 years I've had it so only other brand I've tried are maxtor which have always failed on me eventually

Hey look on the bright side. Samsung can not get sued by Apple over hard drives with Seagate around [editline]25th December 2011[/editline] A word of advice. Replace your portable HDD with a new one once every 3-5 years.

[QUOTE=ripple3000;33872673]I'm not happy that you pretty much run OSX.[/QUOTE] Well at least I'm not from Canada :v:

[QUOTE=Nyaos;33880180]Well at least I'm not from Canada :v:[/QUOTE] Implying US is better? Heh

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;33876622]sorry I couldn't hear this news over the sound of my Intel SSD's [editline]24th December 2011[/editline] On a serious note though, how many HDD makers does this leave? Seagate, WD and…?[/QUOTE] MAXTOR!

I find myself incredibly lucky with hard drives. I bought a Maxtor 500gb hard drive 5 years ago. It was the cheapest 500gb you could buy. Still running strong. Bought loads of WD Elements Externals which are prone to failure and they are still running almost 2 years on. [editline]24th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=GREN EYGS N HAM;33880706]MAXTOR![/QUOTE] owned by seagate hitatchi is another one still in the market.