western digital or maxtor?

[Sniper1432]

okay guys i need your opinion on what hd to get wd or a maxtor i keep getting different answers ineed a straight one this time (need a quiet hd and fast for loading times) thanks!!!!!

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

Consider

Seek Time?
Read/write?
Buffer?
NDQ or non NDQ?
Cost per megabyte?
SATA? SATA150? SATA 3.0? IDE?
RAID? Regular? External? iRAM?

Read reviews left by buyers on sites like Newegg and consider the negatives along with the positives.

Research the drives as far as possible before making what you think is good.

One drive may be good for me, but too crappy for another.

[StevenNevets]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

This may just be what you're looking for:)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144416

[venny]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

NDQ or non NDQ?

Read reviews left by buyers on sites like Newegg and consider the negatives along with the positives.

Research the drives as far as possible before making what you think is good.

One drive may be good for me, but too crappy for another.

its NCQ, not NDQ. and, ya, its good to read reviews. though not by buyers, cos they might be maxtor or WD staff anyway, but by benchmarks. google for benchmarks on those hard drives. its better to see for yuorself hwo weel they really perform in those tests.

[RAF92_Warhawk]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

I have both a Western Digital and a Maxtor in this computer, and they both work excellent. Whichever one you go with, I'm sure you'll be happy.

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

Ive had a set of Maxtors for years on the computers.

I probably will be replacing them with newer drives around Christmas.

[Jaxx]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

WD all the way there Raptor sata drives 10000 RPM's ownage!!!

[Flanker]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

I personally think that they're both fine, but Western Digital has a better reputation as far as reliability goes.

Seagate is by far the best, go for that if you don't have any reason not to.

Yes, Western Digital is currently the only company making the enthusiast 10K RPM Raptor harddrives. They're quite a forward-looking company, though get surpassed by Seagate in reliability.

[Eternal-Souljah]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

I have a 250GB WD and its working very nice.

[)-SiN-( Max666]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

Maxtor since 2001 with no probs . Been using there Oem Sata HD's for awhile now .

[Merlin]

Re: western digital or maxtor?

All your performance questions are answered by Tom Hardware Guide in thier hard disc chart. See link below.

http://tomshardware.co.uk/storage/charts.html