Which hard drive manufacturers do you recommend?

spud17

For internals, I've always favoured Seagate, but I've not been that impressed with the Seagate external drives after seeing 2 fail after very little use.

Samsung F3 1TB is the current favourite of the speedkings.

amitkum

I would recommend seagate bothe for internal & external , WD is also good.

essexsi_2

Thanks all for your input.

Sounds like it really is based on personal experiences, as everything is! But WD does seem to get good reviews and frequent recommendations.

On the samsung f3 spinpoint, I did see on HUKD an offer for a 1TB from ebuyer for just under £50, so that may be worth looking at.

Cheers for all your help. Si

Shambler

I always buy WD and have never had a failure in 15 years of using them. Just ordered a WD caviar black 500GB 32 mb cache for my latest upgrade to Win7 64bit.

Also had experience with a seagate drive failing.

Stompa

A few years ago there used to be a website which collated hard disk reliability info from many users, does anybody know if it still exists?

It was a bit like this:

http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2010/06/18/external-hard-drive-reliability-survey/

but on a much larger scale.

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amitkum wrote: »

I would recommend seagate bothe for internal & external , WD is also good.

Seagate's returns policies are inconvenient to say the least. You have to return the drive in specific packaging which costs the best part of £10 to get, whereas WD offer an advance replacement service where they'll send out a replacement drive to you and you return your faulty one in the packaging the other came in. It's a lot more convenient if things go wrong.

Lokolo

Shambler wrote: »

I always buy WD and have never had a failure in 15 years of using them. Just ordered a WD caviar black 500GB 32 mb cache for my latest upgrade to Win7 64bit.

Also had experience with a seagate drive failing.

I have the 1TB of that and its nice. Little more noisy than my blue (I think its a blue one?) WD one but its speeeedy.