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Over
the years, we've used hard drives from many
manufacturers, including Fujitsu, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung,
Seagate, Western Digital, and others. All of them have made some
excellent drives and some mediocre ones, but over the last few years
we've come to use Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) drives almost
exclusively based on their performance and reliability. Maxtor
(http://www.maxtor.com) also
makes fast, reliable ATA drives and, like Seagate, has been an
innovator in hard disk technology. We no longer use Western Digital
hard drives because we experienced multiple premature drive failures
with various Western Digital models. Although we have never had a
premature drive failure with an IBM ATA hard drive, enough of our
readers have reported severe problems with some IBM models that we
avoid them as well. We don't have sufficient data to
judge the reliability of Samsung models. Our experience is that
Seagate and Maxtor ATA drives are fast, inexpensive, and reliable, so
that's what we use and recommend, as follows.
Seagate or Maxtor . If you need an
ATA drive, choose a Seagate or Maxtor model of the appropriate size
and speed. Both companies offer multiple lines of fast, reliable
drives in both serial ATA and parallel ATA interfaces. One of them is
almost certainly ideal for your needs. We normally use Seagate drives
in our own systems, but Maxtor drives are also excellent.
Seagate Barracuda and Cheetah
series . The 7,200 RPM Barracuda drives, formerly
Seagate's midrange SCSI line, are now the
company's entry-level SCSI drives. The Barracuda
blows the doors off the fastest ATA drives, compares favorably in our
testing to competing models from other makers, is incredibly
reliable, and is remarkably inexpensive. When we need even higher
disk performance, we install a 10,000 or 15,000 RPM Seagate Cheetah.
We've used Seagate SCSI drives in our personal
systems for years, as well as in workstations and servers owned by
clients. Seagate SCSI drives are fast, quiet, and cool, have
extremely low failure rates, and are competitively priced.
There's not much more you can ask for in a SCSI
drive.
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