What is the better Serial ATA hard drive for 120GB. All hard drives come with 8MB of cache and run at 7200 RPM.
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What is the better Serial ATA hard drive for 120GB. All hard drives come with 8MB of cache and run at 7200 RPM.
I have acually only used the raptors (they are fast!!!)
I am very partial to Western Digital, so I have to vote for them.
Well i would like a rapter but i am affraid that if i get one then i will run out of hard drive space and will have to buy another hard drive. I know WD is coming out with a 78GB version of the rapter but i don't know when it will be for sale.
It'll be a 72gig SATA drive---supposed to be out as we speak...haven't seen it yet though.
I'm new on this SATA stuff, so ill just listen in... I picked Maxtor, because it hasnt failed me yet...
I can see why you would plead the fifth...Quote:
Originally posted by Spooky Man G
I'm new on this SATA stuff, so ill just listen in... I picked Maxtor, because it hasnt failed me yet... I plead the fifth...
WD for me. ;)
Heck...If we all drank a fifth, we really wouldn't care which hard drive we got. :cool:
You and booze bistro....:) You Irish?:D
ummm!?!?! I don't remember talking about drinking fifth. Though a couple Markers and coke with a splash of amaretto on ice or some New Castle and I would not care too much either!!!:D
Not to you guys but...I thought this was a poll and it is weird how around 50 people have viewed this forum and only 4 have voted;) I find that odd....
And I made up 25% of it! :D The minority ruling over the majority, just like Amerika...
Scarry.... OOOOOOO Scarry...... Verrrry Scarry boys and girls..... Train and I have agreed on something again. I would check to see if it was a full moon outside but the thunderstorm is blocking out the night sky. :D Scarry.... OOOOOOO Scarry...... Verrrry Scarry boys and girls.....
WD for me because I've watched too many Maxtor's die.
I can't believe that's twice I've agreed with Calpitor. Now! that's scary!! :D
Nothing odd about it....just that there were 46 people from Florida who were afraid to vote...."Chad-phobia" I think they call it....Quote:
Originally posted by Casper1676
Not to you guys but...I thought this was a poll and it is weird how around 50 people have viewed this forum and only 4 have voted;) I find that odd....
...and the number of people who thought George "Dubya" Bush was actually his father who was trying to be reelected... not to mention the people from Phlooriduh (Jupiter, Miami, Sun City) who did not even know how to vote...
man bistro that was funny...lol :D
IMHO, I would go with Maxtor, only because I am familiar with them and I have always used them. They are very dependable and I have never had any problems with my drive. I currently have a 120GB Maxtor with 8MB cache, spinning at 7200 RPM. It has and continues to serve me well. :)
Except that I have had exactly the opposite experience to jackson3837 - I have had nothing but trouble with Maxtor but my many IBM/Hitachi drives have never given me a single problem. I've vowed to never buy another Maxtor as long as I live.
That's the problem, everyone has different experiences.
Only experience is with Seagate to date. And this runs very smooth, even the whole switch (I ghosted the boot partition) went smooth.
Overall, speed increased in the range of 10%+ for bootup and file access on my setup.
Only the combination with the IDE RAID is slow. But then, that's only used for Ghost images about once a week.
From experience I found that the old Maxtor Fireballs were problematic and the turn around time on an RMA'ed product was usually about five business days. Western Digital is much faster I find, they get a replacement drive delivered by the end of next business day. WD by and large has had a better track record but I believe Maxtor has greatly improved their quality assurance.
From the last two years I have had to replace a total of 38 drives: WD - 1 Maxtor - 8 Fujitsu - 29. To be fair Fujitsu drives replaced were recalled by the manufacturer and they also replaced the drives within 48 hours.
So what I thought is true, everyone believes in a different drive. Personally I have a seagate in my dell (that's what it came with) and I have not had any problems. I have also built to computers with IBM/Hitachi and have had zero problems. I did install a fujistu drive in a compaq (grrrrrrrrrr) and we did have problems, then it worked, then it died.
I had to vote for Western Digital, I've had Maxtor drives die on me, but also found their tech support was good. I also like WD's tools, easy to use. You can format a drive in a heart beat using WD's formatting tool.