Maxtor Or Western Digital?

[Dark Auro]

Hey, guys. I've been thinking of getting a new hard drive but I can't decide which to get. Should I go with Maxtor or Western Digital? I've used Maxtor in the past any really like it but I've heard that Western Digital hard drives are better so I'm trying to get the best one. Also, I remember when I got a new Maxtor hard drive like a year ago it had a certain program that automatically transferred everything from the old hard drive to the new one. Does anyone know if Western Digital has the same thing? Hope you guys can help me choose the best one. Thanks.

 

[Johan_Tayn]

The WD 250JB is one of the fastest drives with it's compasity available. What do you want to spend for how much space? Ultimatly, it's the WD Raptor 74GB that is fastest/best.

 

[Asus]

I perfer WD, Seagate, and Hitachi (Even though they are the DeathStar series).
I don't mind Maxtor but why have a drive that isn't the fastest(WD,Hitachi) or isn't the quiet/coolest(Seagate)?
Maxtor, IMO, is a good average drive but isn't something most people aim for.
Though for it's performance, I think it actually runs a little warm.

 

[ShinRa]

I currently have a maxtor, and have owned about 4 in the past. They work flawlessly and are great drives. However, Western Digital is the same, except their raptor drives shit all over any competition out there.

 

[SidewinderX]

WD and segate make the most reliable, fastest, and quietest HDDs hands down. I'v ehad a few maxtors, only had one problem....but never had a problem with WD/Seagate.

 

[Hazar]

I have a maxtor and it has worked great. Also it came with a handy boot cd that formats/partitions very easily/fast. If WD didn't come with one of these I would definetly go for the Maxtor.

 

[Dark Auro]

Well, looking at the previous posts, I've been leaning towards the Western Digital but I'm still trying to find out if it has the same thing as Maxtor that came with a thing that will transfer everything from the old hard drive to the new one. Has anyone recently bought a Western Digital or do they remember it had some kind of program to do that?

 

[nicrd]

Seagate
had a little trouble with maxtor a very long time ago.

 

[Dark Auro]

I just wanted to add a couple more things and maybe you guys can help me with this. There are really two main reasons that I want to get a new hard drive, the first is for more space (duh) but the second reason is because the hard drive I'm using right now is really starting to slow down. Like, when I'm looking at documents and go into a folder with like 15 programs and etc. it takes a while to load the icon and the information. I've tried defragmenting but it didn't seem to help too much. I don't really want to format either because I have stuff that is like 5 years old that I don't think I can get anymore, so if any of you guys can suggest something to help, that would be really great. Right now I have a 80GB Maxtor hard drive and I have about 25GB free.

 

[ShinRa]

WD also doesn't bullshit you. They say its a 74gb drive, it is. Maxtor's "80gb" harddrives are actually only 74-76gb. It's sorta a jip if u ask me.

 

[disruptioN_]

I have a Western Digital 75GB hard drive, and it's been working great for over a year.

 

[Asus]

WD has a floppy disk that will help setup the drive. Even copy data from drive to drive.
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Actually, they are not lying about their size. The WD Raptor 74GB drives are no different than the Maxtor 80GB drives as far as what they report for capacity.
The 74GB Raptor is around 69-71GB after partition/format (NTFS).
NTFS also takes up more space than if it were formated in FAT32 (but you still don't want FAT32).

They tell you how big the drive is rounded up to GBs.
When you format, that takes some space along with the partition.

If you have an empty box you cannot throw things in there without knowing exactly where the stuff is located. Vertical, Horisontal, and Depth location.
If you add dividers into the box (partition/format) then you can locate the items but the dividers take up some of the space.
They do have a disclaimer on the side of the box. hehe

 

[SidewinderX]

well, a progrma to transfer everyhting from an old HDD to a new one is commonly know as windows .

Install your neew HDD, open your old on in windows exploer, select all the folders, drag, and drop.


And another thing about the size..... HDD companies measure their as 1000mb=1gb....windows reads it as 1024mb=1gb.

 

[gulo]

I have 80 GB WD and brand new 250 GB Maxtor, which I traded for my older 160 GB Maxtor. And they all work great, so no complains here.

 

[Hazar]

From what I've heard, either drive will be fine.

 

[shapeshifter]

WD = yes (raptors are the best thing you can get before going scsi)
Maxtor = if in a pinch or its cheap, for me they all seem programed to give up the ghost after about 1 1/2 years.
samsung = no way (its samsung!)
IBM/(Hitachi) = Im still pissed about my Drive up and dying on me, then NOT owning up to the well known problem and giving me a refund (see deathstar)
Seagate = Cool, near silent drives, decent performs. (make the best sata drives, they don't use a bridge its a real sata connection inside and out)