Just like the thread says. I'm looking to build an external hard drive. I've heard Seagate is probably the best, but I wanted to see what you peeps thought.

 

I have found that they all make pretty good drives... although I have had fewer problems with Seagate...

For external drives I have heard good things about LaCie...

Best of luck..

Ciao

 

I've got a couple Seagates, never had any problems. Definitely the cheapest, you can get 180gb for $40 AR.

 

 

Emc

 

I heard you can find 5 year old IBM Desktar GXP drives for $1 or $2.

 

I've bought soooo many seagate drives and never had a problem with a single one.

I've bought:

7 Seagate hard drives - no problems at all. some are going on 3+ years now.
1 Hitachi Drive - Crashed and burned
1 Western digital - no prob so far
2 maxtor drives - both crashed and burned

 

I've seen them all die. Every brand. Buy whatever's fast and cheap. Then buy another to back your data up.

 

where did you find such a deal like that? Link please

 

WD's...All I've ever bought since buying HD's...

 

this isn't near ^^^^^ prices,

but here's a good deal:

Seagate SATA 400 GB Drive ~ $251
Seagate SATA 300 GB Drive ~ $157

 

I prefer Maxtor.

 

Never had probs with maxtor, segate or hitachi

 

My vote will be lonely, but I vote Samsung sp120 series or sp80 series for general purpose applications. Cool, quiet, and reliable...but not the fastest.

If you want one of the fastest drives, I vote Seagate cheetah 15K.4. The price is absurd, but you’ll be hard-pressed at finding a better individual drive.


BTW @ the EMC comment; EMC doesn't make hard drives.

 

I know they don't make hard drives... But they offer highly praised NAS... Very reliable and performant...

 

I got mine at best buy, in store. $120 w/ $80 rebate.

 

Most people aren't tape library fans, but you should check out their CDL (clariion disk library). Very neat...I wasn't familiar with it up until a few months ago. It can emulate normal tape libraries, but the data is stored on disk for faster transfer.

I've had positive results with their NAS devices, but I don't have many others to comapare with.

 

Seagate > *

 

Seagate or Western Digital...

Have had issues with Samsung at the office...

 

Techbargains always has HD's on sale...cheap. Normal prices are about $100 for a 250-300 Gig.

 

seagate has been good to me, never lost ANY porn

 

WD's suck, have had a lot of failures in the enterprise world... and their jumper settings suck too

 

I like Seagate.

 

I've only bought Seagate and WD hard drives...no issues with any of them

 

My friend has had 2 Maxtor HDs go on him...

All data = gone.

 

I've had 3 Maxtors - no problems so far, one is 4 years old.

5 IBM drives, every last one failed.

Never had anything else.

 

Samsung!

 

They all suck, i have had all those brands fail on me.

 

Have used WD and seagate, both very reliable.

 

OK, I ended up getting a 200Gb Seagate Barracuda HD for ... $50 A really good deal for anyone looking for an HD.

 

from where?

 

Outpost.com. It's $99.99 with a $50 MIR.

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4008252

 

Hmmmm......Viagra perhaps?

 

 

He said he was looking for a hard drive maker.......just lightening up the ambiance a bit

 

 

Hey....I coulda had a V8!

 

I usually buy Western Digital and I've never had any problems so far. My harddrives always outlast my computers

 

Seagate hands down. Had a few maxtors fail on me. Now I sport a 100 GB 8 MB Buffer Momentus on my laptop and a 200 GB 8 MB Barracuda external...No problems thus far.

 

Hitachi!