Storage

Who makes the best hard drives?  I found the following article:

I’m just hoping to avoid the worst

The method is simplicity itself. Total up the number of hits that “[vendor name] sucks” gets on Google. For companies who aren’t exclusively disk vendors search on “[vendor name] drives suck.”

Please note this is only a proxy for real numbers. One brand may attract the clueless and another the easily enraged. Some vendors sell more to OEMs who don’t complain online. One thing I did figure out is that we can look at all-time numbers and numbers for the just the last year.

Dividing the Raw Suck by market Share gives a Weighted Suck factor. The lower the number the better.

So here’s the score: lower is better

Maxtor bites it!

This last 12 months
After I did all that, I realized that the method found all complaints over all time. What about lately? I’m not buying a drive 5 years ago, I’m buying one now.

So I ran the searches limiting the results to the last year. The good news is that the vendors have improved customer satisfaction.

Western Digital snags the “most improved” award. They equaled Toshiba after being second worst to Maxtor over all.