Thread: Which is The Most Reliable Hard Drive Brand?

I have a Maxtor Diamond max 10 250GB that died last weekend. My friend is recovering the data for me. In the meantime, I'd like to get a new HD to store my photos, movies and MP3s which would require about 250 GBs of HD space.
I've heard Maxtor's had reliability problems in the past and Western Digital was the way to go. But After going through, I noticed quite a number of people had to RAM their new HDs. So I'd like to ask everyone here.
In your experience, which hard drive company is the most reliable?
I'd want to buy another hard drive that'll die out on me in a year and now all my data is at risk. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

I have had very good luck with Western Digital. I have used 10 and never lost data on one while it was under warranty.
I am pissed right now with Seagate because they charged me to Advance RMA a hard drive when Western Digital will do an Advance Replacement for free and I only end up paying for return shipping.
I read the same reviews before purchasing my two WD 400 GB Raid Edition hard drives, but both have been running 24x7 for about a year without a hint of a problem.
I think maybe they had problems when they were first introduced, either that or people are having difficulties because 1) they are SATA and 2) Non SP1&SP2 version of Windows have problems with large hard drives.
I have my RE drives in a RAID 1 config, so both have to fail at the same time before I lose any data! If anytime during the next 4 years+ one starts to fail, WD will advance ship me a replacement and I end up only losing about. Of course I still use Retrospect to backup all my really important files and photos as RAID 1 can't protect against a virus or a fire for that matter.