Putting together this system, need a HDD of about 160-250GB. Rather out of touch with what quiet and reliable as I haven't bought one for 18 months.
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Putting together this system, need a HDD of about 160-250GB. Rather out of touch with what quiet and reliable as I haven't bought one for 18 months.
not that ive checked that size of drive but 500gb and even 750gb are very cheap now.
the differnce in price between a drive that small and the drives above is about £10.
for me its always samsung, though some people have had numerous RMA's with them. western digital are also excellent.
even a 640gb two platter will be fast and cheap!
There's just been a thread on a newsgroup this morning and Samsung and Hitachi seem to be the kiddies.
Don't need a big HDD as he won't be storing videos etc.
(I have one of 80GB and I've got 50GB unallocated and still plenty of space on C, D and E. It speeds up maintenance).
Personally I'd go for the Samsung F1 320gb, I know you don't need this much but its pretty much the same price as a 250gb and will be faster. I find the F1 Samsungs to be extremely quiet. Only thing cheaper that I have experience with is the WD 250gb Caviar Blue, I have one of those, its good so far but not as quiet as my F1
OK, I'll look at Samsungs first, thanks.
WESTERN DIGITAL ALL DAY LONG :) for me.
AAKS are nice (now caled Caviar Blue), fast, reliable: 500gig are top value, and Scan are doing one TODAY only with a free SATA cable too £43.69 inc vat
£47 for the 640GB AAKS, great value and super faster using 320GB platters :)
Got one coming monday with the free cable.
Yeah, you're pretty much going to be advised to go for either WD or Samsung on this site, don't think you can go far wrong with either.
WD, Seagate, Samsung, all good. From personal experience the warranty turn around for Seagate is far quicker (about 1-1.5 weeks) than WD (about 4-5 weeks). I've read good things about Samsung warranties as well.
Can confirm that the sammys run very cool as well (almost 20deg cooler then the Seagates they replaced!)
Not sure what temps the WDs come in at.
Generally speaking:
For reliability WD RE2 (opps more out of touch than I thought, RE3)
For performance, Samsung is supposed to have the edge, but don't quote me on it!
Unless you want to splash the cash, then maybe a WD Raptor (I'm so out of touch, I mean VelociRaptor)
Don't need the performance - it'd be faster than the user.
My Samsung seems to be OK, so perhaps another one...
Hitachi has far the best hard drive atm.
Performance wise they are actually very good but you are right about reliability. My laptop drive is Hitachi and it is or was the fastest 200GB around at the time. I fear it will die before it gets to the end of the race though. I just leave everything important on my Western Digital passport.