Had a meeting with a rep of one of the HDD manufacturers a few weeks back and I asked how much the market share of the top brands in the Philippines.
I thought it’s better if I’d ask my readers here. Whether you have a netbook, laptop, desktop PC or an external drive, please chime in and tell us which brand do you use.
So far, I can remember of just 4:
- Hitachi
- Toshiba
- Seagate
- Western Digital
- Samsung
- Others
I’ve also added the poll on the sidebar so you can take your pick or leave a comment below. I personally own a couple of Seagate and Western Digital drives myself.
1 seagate 180GB failed me, one right off the bat after purchasing it within 2 weeks and now my not so often usde but “filled to the brim” WD (350GB) a good 4 yrs old is malfunctioning. you have to tilt it in order for it to run. all external, me think has something to do with thee ext. enclosure electricity supply, then again.. our province has savage electricity supply that often fluctuates.
seagate
wd for external
wow 1tb wd for pr0.. erm storage ;) mines just over 200gb.
sir jercouzen can you post benchies on those raid 0, raid 5 babies.
yeah, i want to use ssd but sad to say they still cost an arm and leg… which i rather buy another 2tb for the whs system.
I’ve been using a bunch of old 80GB Seagate 7200 rpm disks for some time now. But I use them in arrays.
3 in RAID 0 for my system array. 64k strip size, good read/write performance.
3 in RAID 5 for my gaming array. 64k strip size, good read performance, so-so write performance.
And on the Sil5723 controller I use a 1TB Western Digital disk for pr0.. erm.. storage.
This minimizes frame rate drop when I record with Fraps on full res (like only 2-5 fps drop). The PC reads from the RAID-5, dumps raw AVI onto the WD 1TB. All the while the system on an isolated array.
Though I’m planning on replacing my system array with the new (ubelievably cheap) Intel X-25 V SSDs. Problem is, they’re only sold online, and since they’re godly cheap for SSDs, they’re always out of stock.
I might be stuck on this setup for a while longer. :3
on my whs
500gb SG PATA (WHS OS)
3x2tb WD Green
6x1tb (2Samsung,2WD,2SG)
2x500gb (Hitachi, Samsung)
on my gaming rig
1x150gb WD Raptor
1x640gb WD Green
on my htpc
1x320gb SG
Contents are streamed from WHS
Black Seagate Free agent Go! 320GB.
WD =)
I have 2 SEAGATE HDD’s, both 320GB. 1 is for my personal use and the other for our church I.T. team use for backing up files. Not bad for both though. :)
I’m disappointed with how Samsung makes their hard drives. Siguro isolated case pero I had this 80Gb Samsung hdd installed on my old pc. Na-tagtag lang yung table namin, nasira na. May nagasgasan na daw sa loob. Fortunately, nasa warranty pa pero after a month or two, na-uga nanaman yung table, nagasgasan nanaman daw. I didn’t mind returning the hdd again, I just bought a new WD hdd.
As of now, I have 2 WD hdds, 1 WD external hdd, 1 Seagate hdd and the faulty Samsung hdd.
Seagate and WD. I choose you!
I have 4 HD with a CDR King enclosure, I kept the old HD when I upgraded from an old IDE Hd.
80 GB seagate
40 GB seagate
20 GB seagate
20 GB western digital
1 HD CDR King enclosure. But I gave all those away and now I’m using a 500 GB WDElements/western digital elements, to keep/backup all my personal files (video, mp3 and installers).
http://teknisyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/unboxing-of-wdelements-500-gb.html