What Brand of 320 gig External Harddrive should I buy?

Question

What Brand of 320 gig External Harddrive should I buy?

These are all the same price, and are the options I am considering:

Maxtor
Western Digital
Seagate

Any thoughts, warnings and recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can buy the Ibm or seagate

Answer 2

i don't like maxtor because i've had a lot of troubles with their drives in the past. seagate scsi drive gave me some trouble too, but ide and sata drives are pretty sweet so far. western digital is pretty reliable but some models are really noisy, u want to avoid those. do some research. one way is by visiting amazon and see what ppl are saying about that particular model. or just ask around and do ur own research on which brand/model is most reliable and gives the best performance and price. a lot of time u can find deals for a drive slightly smaller but a lot cheaper and sometimes u can even find better deals on a bigger drive! :D

oh and see if the place offer any replacement warranty or extended warranty. for a few bucks more, it might be a good idea to get one.

have fun and shop around. good luck.

Answer 3

if the warrenties are the same and the price is the same then any of the three will work. when people have bad experiances with hard drives its not cause the brand sucks. its just a mechanical defect in the manufacturing process which will happen with any company regardless. they have one bad experiance and then lable one brand unsaticfactory. dont let these people hinder your decision. i have owned hard drives from all three of these companys and have not had any trouble. but i would have to say i would recommend seagate only because i have damaged a exteral hard drive when i dropped it and it wouldnt turn back on and when it did i made a horrid noise so i sent it in to their data recovery service and they replaced the drive and warrentied it and i got the data recovered by their data recovery team 100% and im talkin about 120gb worth of data. so i would put them at the top because i was given a very good customer service by their tech support team.

Answer 4

Maxtor's OneTouch (if that's what you are looking at) has integrated backup features that might be useful for you. The drive and software both work very well. In any case, you should just pick the one that looks best, although Western Digital and Seagate are the top two (i think) and make slightly better drives than Maxtor.

Answer 5

The five hard drives in my machine are all Western Digital. They've all been running non-stop for over 4 years and not one of them has so much as hiccuped.

Answer 6

Warranties are the same on most of them, however,
I personally will buy NOTHING besides :

Seagate or Western Digital .... period.

regads,
Philip T

Answer 7

I'm happy with my WD Ebook. I'd assume any are ok as long as it's a popular name brand like the ones you've mentioned.

Answer 8

I would try Seagate. I have a Seagate 160GB external HD, and I'm very pleased with it.