Soon I will rule the world...

[Duty]

But until then, I need a nice new hard drive... Any suggestions? What I am looking for is an ATA 66, yes I realize there is no real advantage, and 20-30gb. Speed is not a big factor so 5400rpm is ok.

Basically I just want to know if there is anyone in particular right now that I should stay away from...

As always, thank you for your support...

Jeff


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[Paulr]

I really love my 2 IBM 7,200rpm, ATA-66 drives.
Really quick and they also make so little noise.
The IBM drives are also considered rather quick in general by the industry.
I know a review about a month ago here in the UK had the 5,400rpm IBM drives out performing 7,200rpm drives by other manufacturers.
And the standard 2MB cache on the IBM's is a nice feature too.

[dZeus]

on www.storagereview.com you will find the answers to all your questions...

[Brian R.]

If you are planning to oc your fsb, stay away from Maxtor. I second the motion for IBM. I've had nothing but good luck with them with ATA66. (and fast)

[Werdna]

Also, stay away from Fujitsu.

[SteveC]

I have to disagree with werdna - I have never had a problem with Fujitsu drives - I have always used them and IBM and have ziltch problems.

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"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

the last harddrive I owned was an IBM 7200rpm and worked great as does my current maxtor 7200rpm
jim

and yes, stay away from WD

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[CHHAS]

I have a Maxtor DM 40+ 30GB, and I love it
It's fast and quiet, and I haven't had a single problem with it.

I also have a Maxtor 4320, and no probs with that one either.

If you want to sped a bit more get an IBM Deskstar 75 GPX (at least they are more expensive here in Denmark).

[spoogenet]

Not to say the same thing over and over, but I would definitely recommend the IBM Deskstars for IDE drives.

Had good experience with Maxtor and Quantum, but would still recommend the IBM drives.

As of late I am not impressed with WD drives for a few reasons and would recommend you avoid them.

b

[Greebe]

I second that Steve

I have had 0 problems OCing with either drive make. The 34GXP's are oh so sweet

[Duty]

Thanks everyone, I was not expecting such a turn out. Off to pricewatch to look up prices...


Jeff

[Johnny Ray]

I've only had two hard drives fail on me....a WD SCSI and a Fujitsu IDE. Also at work, of 6 Acma workstations with Fujitsu HDs, 5 have failed. I really like my Quantum and Seagate drives, and of course IBMs are great.

John

[thecurse]

i recently got myself the maxtor 61.4 gigger. while it is only 5400rpm it does have 2 meg cache and it is ata66.

about a month ago i paid $270 for a brown box version of it. and i am happy with it.

[Werdna]

Maybe I was a bit quick to judge, I get the opinion from my old 1.58G Fujitsu drive which is the slowest drive I've come across but not only that (after all like I said it is old), a friend of mine has warned me away from them twice after about 8 of his works completely failed. (He's help desk)

[Guyver]

Be cautious on the vendor you buy the OEM IBM drives from. Depending on the agreements signed between IBM and the vendor, the warranty can be nill. I've had to sit on about 30 dead IBM Deskstar/Ultrastar drives due to this. (Gateway OEM drives). If gateway won't do anything for them, then you're SOL.

Just a word of warning, that's all.

WD - several failures, but good support/replacement policies. Enterprise drives killed themselves due to heat generation.

Quantum - some incompatibilities with NT, worked well under 98. (Love my Atlas 10K's... )

Fujitsu, personally have seen about a 3-5% failure rate out of the 300 or so that I've dealt with. But that was with end-users that brought in their system that fell off their tables while the system was powered up (kids fighting to get on the net ).

Maxtor, currently using in my gaming rig.

Guyver