Laptop HDD Replacement Advice Wanted

isofa

almillar wrote: »

Yes isofa, that was kinda my point, I've had 2 bad Maxtors, but don't generally tell people not to buy them. Most brands are the same, but I just wanted to save Hitachi's reputation, as people are putting them down for a fault with a 10 yr old IBM desktop hard drive, which has zero relevance to today's laptop HDDs.

Yes I agree, my above post was in reply to totalsolutions, as per the quote, not you

Delboy101

Thanks for all the input, I don't think I need more than 120GB so I don't need to worry about the possible 137GB limit.

With all`the discussion about each of the brands having occasional failures I shall probably go with the Hitachi and hope for the best as it's the cheapest.

totalsolutions

isofa wrote: »

Any reason?

I've used all the three brands you've mentioned since the early 1990s with no issue at all, I've 10 year old Macs running fine with Maxtors and Seagates. Equally PCs fine with Samsungs.

Have several older WD externals which are very reliable.

As someone in IT, like many of us here, I get through a lot of systems

All drives will fail from time to time regardless of brand. As I said earlier, as soon as one person recommends a brand, another will point out a failure they have had.

Well they are all much the same but I would go for a quiet and cool running drive with a brand name I trust. Maxtor and WD and Seagate have let me down. The typical type I go for is also technically superior with added benefits.