Paul P
 
I'm not sure where you want to go with this, nor where everyone else is going...
 
For an SSD, why not go with the king, Intel ?
 
For hard drives, as far as I'm concerned, WD is the top of the heap.  VelociRaptor for the extreme, black for the rest.
 
Hard drives are so cheap now, it's ridiculous.
 

intel SSD's are money
, your paying for the name

chuckebaby
 
intel SSD's are money
, your paying for the name

Well, you got to admit that that name is worth money

Not really. When it comes to memory based products crucial, Samsung and several other brands are much better quality than Intel.

For many of Intel's CPU generations, they also tried making their own motherboards. They were consistently vastly inferior and made rubbish motherboards compared to Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and many other manufacturers.

Intel make good CPUs. And that's about it. Anything else they make is easily bettered by manufacturers with superior experience and products.

Names alone aren't worth any money when it comes to PC hardware, this isn't fashion.

What hard drive should you buy?
 
The one I bought, of course.
 
Hitachi has always been reliable for me, tho at the moment I'm using Western Digital.
 
Personal experience agrees with the Hitachi vs. Seagate dual. I've had several Seagates go belly up. Even had to have one sent in for the dreaded $1500 recovery ploy. Two days after I got it, it went belly up and had to be replaced too. OUCH! No More Seagate! They have the best warranty (5 years) but you'll need it.
 
Some warranty tidbits for you. If you send one in to be replaced with a new one, you will NOT get a new one. Common practice for computer companies today is to give you a repaired or "factory refurbished" replacement. This means you may be trading in you problem for someone else's problem, as happened to me with a printer once.
 

I really doubt they replace HDDs with one that someone else sent in that was also broken.

I've never had any issues with getting replacements for dead hardware including two Samsung HDDs.

HDDs are the most likely component in your PC to fail, having two die is nothing.

WD makes a great enterprise drive at 7200 rpm.  http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16822136579
 Great for storage.  
SSDs for C drive and sample libraries.
I still like WD raptors 10,000 rpm for actual recording drive

Seagate drives seem to come with 2-year warranties these days, though they used to be 5-years.
 
As long as backups are good, one should be OK, other than to stay clear of the green ones.
 
I happen to continue to use Seagate - I have had more WD drives go bad than Seagate, and the Seagate folks will pre-ship a replacement that arrives in 2-3 days, then you have 10 days to return the failed one.
 
Bob Bone
 

Seagate DID send refurbished drives to me on 2 warranty replacement occasions.
 
Bob Bone
 
 

Yes indeed the Samsung SSD are THE recommendation to follow!
 
But check out their latest refresh: The SSD EVO!! Quick Google search will show you how much faster AND cheaper than their previous series. Most reviewers drool over them and place them at the top of just about every SSD categories.
 
I have recently placed 3 of them in my system. One for OS (250GB), one audio (250GB) and one for VSTs(500GB). Since then, EVERYTHING is flying and never see any kind of peeking in Sonar monitor window... Also added a Western Digital Red 3TB for storage (excellent rating for speed and quietness).

Vab
I really doubt they replace HDDs with one that someone else sent in that was also broken.

 
By they I am not talking about vendors, like Newegg, who have no choice but to replace your defective unit with another "brand new" item. Instead, I was referring to manufacturers' warranty policies. Call any manufacturer and they should confirm it, even if reluctantly.