With my recent experience with Seagate, a company that I thought once produced a quality product, I would like to know what brand of hard drive would you trust your data on?

This is a trick question, right? You should never trust any hard drive with your data - this is why you back up religiously. That being said I've had the best luck Hitachi, worst luck with Maxtor.

In the past I had never had an issue with Seagate, but after this ordeal with them with 3 original drives failing and 1 replacement being shipped to me defective, I have second thoughts for sure.

The originally purpose of replacing my drives back in January was to avoid this very situation (see site news for the details). For the servers I have regular backups and that schedule has now been increased. I in the process of implementing a replication type copying of files and DB backups between machines. Also now both machines can take the place of each other, although performance will suffer.

Also Maxtor is now part of Seagate, and after this issue, there seems to be a lot of chatter of the pour quality of these drives.

Thanks for the feedback.

Here is an update on my Desktop Computer. Yesterday the newly replaced Seagate hard drive CRASHED AGAIN! . I have had it with Seagate. I will take the loss on the Hard Drive cost and I have ordered 3 new Hitachi Hard Drives. Once I get my Desktop back in order, I will be swapping out the Server hard drives. The time wasted dealiing with Seagate and having to constantly replace drives and cloning and restoring data is becoming counter productive and taking me away from other tasks and projects. Heed this warning, SEAGATE DRIVES are CRAP! See Site news forum for details on the main issues I have had with them.

Our database server Hard drive Died, AGAIN!  Please see http://www.argostuff.com/Forums/tab...fault.aspx for details.

honestly I don't trust hard-drives, simply because it can get stolen, broken etc. Seagate is good but if it's up to me I would choose cloud server to backup all my data.

You have to put your data somewhere. The only secure computer is one that is unplugged and locked in a vault. But then it is useless. I no longer trust Seagate hard drives. I had 3 original Seagate drives, all failed. When Seagate RMA'ed them 3 more failed. The next round, 1 of the three was DOA. I had it. I replaced all 3 with Hitachi Hard drives and never looked back. I also have a NAS to where all of my workstations and servers are backup up to. For a low budget operation, I feel I have a pretty reliable backup strategy with a lot of redundancy built in. Plus a Cloud server costs $$$, and how secure is it? You do not know who is working in that computer room where those servers are stored and how trustworthy they are? I am a bit on the paranoid side of things. I would have more faith on an internal cloud than a 3rd party.