80GB Hard Drive - which is best?

[Ice_Black]

I am looking for 80GB Hard Drive for windows xp os.

Which Hard drive do you recommend? Must be very quiet and fast. I might consider to use raid 0.

[Dreaming]

any particular reason why it must be 80gb?

For a small fast quiet drive, I have two Western Digital 1600YS (Raid Edition) in Raid0 which are brilliant and couldn't recommend them enough. 160gb and something like £35 - £40.

[Ice_Black]

I have never tried Raid0 before.. is it scary? does it always cause problem or headache?

How fast is it?

I only need about 80GB hd because I hardly go over 40GB..

I keep most of my documents/moviess, etc on data drive's.

[Adywebb]

I use Samsung 80GB HD's in all my crunching rigs - nice a quiet and never had a failure

[Ice_Black]

Hmmm Samsung.

[Ice_Black]

I think I might get two Western Digital 120GB

Is this good hard drive: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=253983 ?

[pauleden]

I really like spinpoints at the moment. Fast, reliable and quiet.

[Nemz0r]

I've had Maxtor DiamondMax+2 80Gb for about 5yrs now, very reliable and quiet =). But Maxtor has been taken over by Seagate now.

[Martin87]

I would recommend either western digital or samsung i have had both and they are very quite and reliable not had one fail yet

[not_my_ip]

Why not WD Raptor than? Fastest and I heard lots of people keep this drive as a system drive - a bit expensive but ... you get what you paying for

[Karl The Gimp]

samsung!

[Zak33]

buy THIS
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=561030
or summit similar.

which is 320 gig.....and then partition it, so the first partition you make is 80 gig.
Use that partition for your fast stuff. Then use the rest of the drive for your other data

See my link below for my crazy partition theory thread

[Martin87]

Why not WD Raptor than? Fastest and I heard lots of people keep this drive as a system drive - a bit expensive but ... you get what you paying for

He said at the beginning of the thread it must be quite and Raptors are not quite! lol

[Thorsson]

Not quite what? Oh you mean quiet.

Anyway Samsung spinpoints are widely regarded as being the quietest.