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.

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.

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!?!

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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!

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One of the few ones left

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|

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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

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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.

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

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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!

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

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Originally posted by davedresden i suggest getting the gabriel & dresden prog-a-minute. in 3 easy steps you too could change the face of dance music. batteries not included. - dave

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.

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