Hard drive - Picked one, got suggestions?

[ExAm]

Here's the one I picked: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM SATA (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262)

I hear word from my friend that the slightly lower RPM than the faster ones leads to better reliability, so that's my pick. Anyone else got a suggestion for a drive? Preferably within the same price range.

[KIWIDOGGIE]

Seagates are quiet DONT GET MAXTOR OR WESTERN DIGITAL if you want to keep it for a few years and or going to be doing alot of writing files

[ExAm]

I will be doing a lot of file writing, and I know that maxtor is supposedly bad. The one I have right now is western digital, but it's only 60GB, so that's why I'm upgrading.

[Warsaw]

There's nothing wrong with Western Digital. I've had mine for quite awhile, and it has yet to have a single problem. It even formats very fast (for 200GB, compared to letting Windows do it) if you use the tools provided by Western Digital.

[Xetsuei]

Seagates are quiet DONT GET MAXTOR OR WESTERN DIGITAL if you want to keep it for a few years and or going to be doing alot of writing files

Isn't Maxtor OEM Seagate?

[Warsaw]

No. Maxtor is its own brand. I've used their hard drives in the past, but I've never encountered any problems with them.

EDIT: I stand corrected on this point.

[Xetsuei]

Uh, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxtor Maxtor is subsidiary of Seagate.

[legionaire45]

Xetsuei™;147449']Uh, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxtor Maxtor is subsidiary of Seagate.
Thank you.

Basically all Maxtors are now are rebranded Seagates. The 2 maxtor 320 gig drives in my secondary rig are both Seagate 7200.10's.

[Limited]

Ive got a seagate as my main drive and I'm probably going to ditch my 18gb western digital secondary drive and get a western digital 500GB 16mb cache drive. Cheep and cheerful.

I've had my Western Digital drive for freaking ages, it was in the first pc I had still works like a charm, but 18GB is nothing =\

[Emmzee]

I recommend a WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR X 150 GB HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!

[Kybo_Ren]

I've had my Western Digital drive for freaking ages, it was in the first pc I had still works like a charm, but 18GB is nothing =\
Yeah... I remember getting an 80MB external SCSI drive and worshipping it for its massive storage capacity.

Now I have a 500GB Seagate Barracuda. I love it! :)

[ExAm]

So, Seagate Barracuda it is, then. I'll buy it.

[Kybo_Ren]

Good call, but for that much money you can just get a 400-500 GB drive for about the same price :) ($30 for 150GB more -- it's a steal IMO)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148138
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

[Stealth]

Oh, get a bigger one. one trabit maybe.

[Xetsuei]

No.

[legionaire45]

Good call, but for that much money you can just get a 400-500 GB drive for about the same price :) ($30 for 150GB more -- it's a steal IMO)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148138
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
Do what this man says.

[ExAm]

Do what this man says.It may be a good idea, but i'm not willing to spend a hundred on a hard drive right now. It just seems like too much.

[legionaire45]

It may be a good idea, but i'm not willing to spend a hundred on a hard drive right now. It just seems like too much.
Its only like 40 bucks more for twice as much space. You'd be better off holding off and getting the bigger drive =/. If you absolutely need it now then get it, but I'd really recommend that you hold out.

[ExAm]

I've got over 400 right now, so it wouldn't be much of an issue if I did buy it, but still I have an aversion to buying a hard drive for that much.

[NullZero]

Less RPM = longer life.

[ExAm]

Less RPM = longer life.

Here's the one I picked: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM SATA (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262)

I hear word from my friend that the slightly lower RPM than the faster ones leads to better reliability, so that's my pick. Anyone else got a suggestion for a drive? Preferably within the same price range.So what else is new?

[KIWIDOGGIE]

WD is a ok but down the road after days of 24/7 writeing and reading bout 2 years they go out Maxtor last for about 3 minutes(or months) and yes maxtor is a branch of seagate BUT there using cheaper parts thats why the price diffrence. There loud and they wont keep up with large orders (like copying all files from one drive to another) you have to do it in parts. I have 3STATA and the rest are normal UATA and the loundest one is the maxtor(WD is quite plesant)

[Kybo_Ren]

I've got over 400 right now, so it wouldn't be much of an issue if I did buy it, but still I have an aversion to buying a hard drive for that much.
Alright, then that 250GB should suit you just fine :)

[Stealth]

Xetsuei™;147791']No.
yea, fuck you xet, who wouldn't want that big of a hard drive, the more memory, the more games you can have on one hard drive, and ExAm can have a ton of models before it fills up.:D

[Warsaw]

Also expect lengthly defragmentation times and system scans with a large hard drive.

[legionaire45]

Also expect lengthly defragmentation times and system scans with a large hard drive.
The maximum physical amount of storage has no affect on the length of time of defragmention. If you're comparing 2 drives, one is a 500GB and the other is 1TB, and you have them filled up with 200 gigs of files, then both drives will defragment at roughly the same time (if they are exactly the same aside from maximum space). However, if you have a single 400GB file, then the 1TB will probably be faster because the 500 has to break that file up into pieces and then organize it while the 1TB drive can (depending on how much free space it has) just move it around.

[Digikid]

Seagates are quiet DONT GET MAXTOR OR WESTERN DIGITAL if you want to keep it for a few years and or going to be doing alot of writing files


Sorry but that is not right. Maxtor and Seagates suck ass. Western Digital are still the best ones out there.

[ExAm]

Sorry but that is not right. Maxtor and Seagates suck ass. Western Digital are still the best ones out there.Fuck, we need a smiley to tell people when they're just stating their opinion, which isn't necessarily fact. Personal experience with a product, unless widely shared, doesn't generally constitute a fact that is true for all instances of that product.

[Warsaw]

@Legionnaire: You're right. It depends on how fragmented your drive is...

I think I'll just stop posting in this particular thread...my experience says my 60GB defragged faster than my 200GB, no matter how fragmented either one was.

Good luck with your new drive, ExAm.

[Digikid]

Fuck, we need a smiley to tell people when they're just stating their opinion, which isn't necessarily fact. Personal experience with a product, unless widely shared, doesn't generally constitute a fact that is true for all instances of that product.

Ah I understand what you are saying. Sorry about that. The reason why I say this is that in all of my years as a Computer Tech the worse hard drives for dying have been lately ( from dying the most to the least ):

1.) Maxtor
2.) Seagate .10 Perp Drives
3.) Hitachi
4.) Samsung
5.) Western Digital


So I state my "reasoning" from my personal experience and from a few forums on the net. Sure it changes from person to person but this is what I have learned.

I wish Quantum was still here. :)

[ExAm]

Maybe a lot of people are buying the high-RPM models?

[Digikid]

7200 is the highest RPM for consumer drives.....unless you count SCSI and Raptor Drives.

All of the ones that I have RMA'ed have been either 5400RPM or 7200.XX RPM drives.

[itszutak]

I recommend a WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR X 150 GB HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!
MICROSCOPIC CARBON NANOTUBES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWfG7ZPGmA)

[InnerGoat]

1.) Maxtor
2.) Seagate .10 Perp Drives
3.) Hitachi
4.) Samsung
5.) Western Digital

I really havn't had any good drives from WD. Two of the three 40gb ones we have here somehow managed to forget that windows was on them, and had to be formatted. Then i've got a 250gb in my rig, and that drive powers down after a minute of FRAPS recording or so. The other two drives, a 200GB that I believe is a Seagate, and a recently purchased 500GB Samsung, have been excelent.

[Digikid]

yes but is it a Perpendicular drive? THOSE are the bad Seagate ones. You can tell by the .10 after the 7200.

[InnerGoat]

Nah, got it long before the 7200.10 drives came out. The 500GB Samsung is probably a Perpendicular model, though.

[Dr Nick]

bA94PWAhFdE

DESIGNING A HARD DRIVE WITH A WINDOW IS NOT AS EASY AS YOU MIGHT THINK


SeaGate is great for Hard drives! I have a 315GB and 500GB drive by SeaGate, and they're both fast enough for me!

EDIT: Also, totally reliable! They can even handle the pressure of being full!

[Phopojijo]

I recommend a WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR X 150 GB HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!
HARD DRIVE!Or just the Raptor 150GB and save 50 bucks... who needs a *window*?

Ugh, that video is the epitome of annoying.

[Digikid]

LOL! I thought it was funny...annoying but funny.

I still stand for my statements....however I am happy that you APPEAR to have a working one.

[NullZero]

So what else is new?

Reliability isn't the same as Life time...