Whos HDDs are bettar?

I like Seagate and Maxtor and Hitachi. In that order, all the WD drives I've had have failed just outside 1 year.
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I like the WD's. Never had a single problem with them. I planned on getting a Maxtor because I heard that they make a good storage drive but suck as an OS drive.

I like WD, Mator, and Seagate. Never had anymore probs out of one then I have with the others.
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More RAM than Dodge!

I have a 4 gig IBM that's still chugging along after over six years (last time I tried to use it anyway). I also have a 16 gig WD that's around four years old and used every day. My main drive is an 80 gig WD and I've had no problems with it after nine months or so.

Maxtor is the only brand I've had problems with, and I hear a lot of bad things about Seagate, but don't have much experience using them.

WD has the best warranty that I have seen. 5 years on my raptors.
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More RAM than Dodge!

Never had a WD fail. Have had a maxtor and an IBM fail.

Nice to see a fellow Raptor user Killaholic!!
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"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

WD's are my current favorite. I have bought or told people to buy 10+ of the SE hard drives in the last year, and not one has failed.

Go WD.


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Unrealized wrote: Never had a WD fail. Have had a maxtor and an IBM fail.

Nice to see a fellow Raptor user Killaholic!!

Same setup I have. Serious speed.

What mobo you running?
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"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

I have a 2800 athlon xp with asus a7n8x delux, 1.5GB RAM.
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More RAM than Dodge!

Nice. I love the nforce boards. Damn stable.
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"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

Yes, best board I have ever had. The thing I like the most those is the dual channel. It just screams with that set up.
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More RAM than Dodge!

Yeah I'm running that. It surprised me how much quicker it is running dual channel.
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"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

so how does one setup dual channel. I have 1gb of ram on my shuttle sn45g but I never did anything to enable/disable dual channel.
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Thats the Biz sweetheart.

As long as you have 2 512mb 400mhz modules you should be golden.

If so there is a setting in your bios to enable this. Dual channel mobos seem very picky so if you have low quality ram it may give you problems.
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"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

I have a 13gig ibm thats been running for damn near 5 years now, a wd thats been running for a year... and in the shop I work in, I have seen many maxtor hd's die.... not really any of the newer models... all I can say is that quantum is the bane of all other hd's.
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Sagz wrote: so how does one setup dual channel. I have 1gb of ram on my shuttle sn45g but I never did anything to enable/disable dual channel.

1.2tb of Western Digital drives, I thought I had a problem with one a year ago. It would occasionally "click" and then spin up again. Turned out to be the molex power connection.

Someone once convinced me that probably half of the hard drive failures were either caused from power supply problems or overheating.

260 GBs of WD Drives, never had a problem with any of them, and use all 3 of them on a daily basis. ( Some are fairly new. )

I won't buy anything but Seagate.