What’s Your Favorite Hard Drive Brand?
In the past, Seagate was my preferred hard drive brand. They offered good performance and stellar reliability. Then late last year, my Seagate notebook drive suddenly crashed and while the drive in my current Macbook is also a Seagate, I plan on looking at other brands during my next upgrade cycle.
The recent firmware issues in certain Seagate drives obviously hasn’t helped to lift my confidence. I’ll most likely look to Western Digital for my storage needs. Their line-up of notebook drives has matured nicely and their desktop drives cover everything from high-capacity to pure performance.
My dark horse vote goes to the new Intel SSD drives. The two factors holding me back are capacity and price. In benchmarks, only the Western Digital Raptors come close to matching the performance of these solid state drives. We’re talking consumers drives here and not those exotic network-class drives.
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I also used to be a fan of Seagate, but after a few broken hard drives I gave them up. Nowadays I mostly use Western Digital and Fujitsu hard drives.
Seagate currently is having huge problems with the firmware on a bunch of their hard drives. Basically the computer will stop recognizing the hard drive. The hard drive itself is fine (spins up, and your data is still there) but you can’t access anything on it. Due to the lack of response to the situation I will be avoiding the Seagate brand name.
I now use mostly Western Digital. I’ve never had a problem with any of there hard drives.
Acom Data drives are the best. I have a 8 year old 40gb Acom external which is still going strong and gets used every day!!!! I am able to boot to it and just keeps going (like the EverReady Bunny). It’s big (twice the size of a new lacie porsche piano black 1TB. It is such a classic and has served me so well, I will never part with it. Western Digital is also a great drive. Seagate and Maxtor drives have been a nightmare and very problemsome! Hope this helps.