Best SATA Hard Drive??

[SilentDeath]

I got a 160gb sata maxtor dmp9.
From the reviews ive read, the seagate 4 and 5 were quiet, but the 7 is noticably more niosy, and nioser than maxtors.
As directhex said, drives dont push enough data to need more than 70mb/s so whether its "pure" or bridged sata, makes no difference. IIRC maxtors are pure sata but i will have to check the underside of my drive later. the extras WildmonkeyUK pointed out are not things that will make much difference.
Also ive found 8mb cache to not have much if any difference over 2mb cache.
Samsung drives are imo the best from what ive read and heard, but ive never used one.
Also maxtors have 3 year warrnetys on all of the 8mb cache, bigger than 120gb drives according to there site. Ive taken a screenshot incase I ever need to argue it. I could not find any clear information on warrentys for recent maxtors.

[Lexeus]

Also maxtors have 3 year warrnetys on all of the 8mb cache, bigger than 120gb drives according to there site. Ive taken a screenshot incase I ever need to argue it. I could not find any clear information on warrentys for recent maxtors.

A screen shot saying 3 years won't help you. Only retail drives have 3 years warranty. Its a standard thing. Oem drives have one year warranty, just as oem CPU's only have 1 year warranty.

[directhex]

A screen shot saying 3 years won't help you. Only retail drives have 3 years warranty. Its a standard thing. Oem drives have one year warranty, just as oem CPU's only have 1 year warranty.

all samsung hard drives have a 3 year warranty, oem or not. infact, i don't think they SELL retail boxed drives.

one of the reasons i like them.