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Posted by Kamaya on Nov-17-2002 13:10:

Which hd should I get?!?!

Since this forum is frequentlier checked & this isn't per definition a 'gaming thing' I want to post this in the Chillout forum instead of gaming forum:

I'm going to buy a new Harddisk,

I'm choosing between these:

DiamondMax Plus 9 120 Gb, Udma/133, 7.200 rpm >> 204,-

DiamondMax Plus 9 120 Gb, Udma/133, 7.200 rpm, 8 Mb cache >> 232,-

Seagate Barracuda V ST3120023A,120Gb 7200rpm 9ms Liquid Bearing. >> 225,- euro

Western Digital WD1200JB, 120Gb 7200rpm, 8Mb >> 249,- euro
WD Caviar SE 120 Gb, Udma/100, 7.200 rpm, 8 Mb cache >> 241,- euro
i guess these are the same, only different prizes (diff. shops)

IBM HDD 120Gb 7200 rpm IDE ATA 100 >> 210,- euro

I have heard IBM sux, I own a Maxtor 30 gig hd 7200 rpm atm, never had any problems with it and I owned a Quantum fireball 1 gig (ghehe, was/is in my pentium 75 mhz system)

I searched, but couldn't find any test,

can someone help me with my choice?!?!

Thanks!!

Kamaya.

Posted by Fandom on Nov-17-2002 13:35:

http://www.sysopt.com/index.html
search there,u'll find some good help
btw among the winners(the first 2 were too-costing) in a test i saw last week was the WD Caviar 1200JB.

Posted by Trancewave on Nov-17-2002 13:59:

I buy nothing but Seagate. Having seen some of my friends having so much trouble with their HD, my seagate have always been running smooooth. Never had any problems with any seagate I have ever brought. Quality stuff.

Posted by Kamaya on Nov-17-2002 19:13:

thanks for the info, haven't found much more then individual tests:

WD is very good, what I've read, but how about the errors n stuff, which brand will last the longest!?!

Posted by ExOn on Nov-17-2002 19:16:

I have beaten my WD Caviar with loads of mp3's, movies and games
(Fxp dump)
and it has been running smoothly all along..
buy the caviar!

Posted by biznology on Nov-17-2002 19:21:

i heard via this board that the IBMs suck...but thats not necessarily true.

it was simply their early huge drives that ate shit. my 40GB has been fine. alt ive never really had big issues with hard drives...late|

Posted by topside on Nov-17-2002 20:37:

Yeah I'd go for the WD caviar. I have 3 of them for a total of 250 GB and they are awsome, no problems at all.

topside

Posted by yujie__ on Nov-17-2002 21:27:

I have teh WD120JB. no problems yet except for "low" disk space. I got it for $140 from dell when it was really cheap. I also have a Maxtor , no problems yet except for low disk space.

Posted by jinxed84 on Nov-17-2002 21:34:

Id say go with the Seagate, never seen one die. and with that liquid bearing youll get alot less heat and alot less noise

Posted by Nyx on Nov-17-2002 21:35:

I would go for the Western Digital.

I bought a Western Digital Caviar XL 80Gb 7200rpm last year & I haven't had any problems with it so far.
It's filled with 80 gbs of electronic music only!

Posted by Vizay on Nov-18-2002 01:27:

seagate or western....go for nothing else...seagate is a little bit more epxensive thatn the western though

Posted by nrjizer on Nov-18-2002 02:43:

From personal experience, I can tell you to avoid WD at all costs. Their old HD's last forever, but their new ones suck. I had one in my pc for about 2 years then one day, it just died without warning. I put another WD in there and within a week the needle was physically broken and skipping, rendering it useless. A friend loaned me a computer for a while with a WD in it, ran ok for a month or 2 before it, too, died suddenly. I wont buy another WD again.

I reccomend IBM. I have them, they come with a 3 year warranty.

Posted by BigDil on Nov-18-2002 08:37:

quote:
Originally posted by nrjizer
[...]
I reccomend IBM. I have them, they come with a 3 year warranty.

quote:

IBM reduces warranty on hard drives soon
IBM HAS NOTIFIED its North American resellers in a "Dear customer" letter that it is cutting warranties on all Deskstar IDE drives from three years to one.
The change will come on the 15th of November and applies to all drives apart from the 180GB IDE 8MB cache drive, part number 07N9216.

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6155

quote:

Seagate, Western Digital to cut hard drive warranties too

(http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5392)

Oh, and don't forget Maxtor... they also reduced warranty to one year.

Posted by escee on Nov-18-2002 09:06:

do not go anywhere near IBM deathstar hard drives. Also dont touch fushitsu. Both have been having a lot of hard drive troubles lately.

Posted by Kamaya on Nov-18-2002 11:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Vizay
seagate or western....go for nothing else...seagate is a little bit more epxensive thatn the western though

the Seagate is 25 euros cheaper than the WD, so Seagate then!??