is this hard drive a good value?

[nehalmistry]

OK... i need some of your guys's experience and help here...

http://www.ipc.ca/accessories/index....=hard%20drives

at this site there is a
Fujitsu 20.4 gb 7200rpm HD for $188 CDN (~$125 US)

and at www.futureshop.ca there is a
Western Digital 20.4 gb 5400rpm HD for $169 CDN (~112 US)

now it doesnt take a rocket scientist to realize that the fujitsu deal is better cos its much faster... but i dont know much about fujitsu's reputation.. are they any good? which deal do u guys think is better?

im gonna buy one of them this saturday...

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[windigo]

yes fujitsu is a good manufacturer ive owned several myself and never had a problem plus the drives are very quite

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MSI K7TPro2 Duron 750@900
256Ram G400DH32mb
Pioneer SCSI 16xDVD

[Wombat]

You have to be careful with WD drives. WD is not a good manufacturer. However, some of their newer drives are IBM's, who make some of the best IDE drives.

You have to like 7200rpm over 5400rpm. Don't ignore buy.com's prices on the IBM Deskstar drives. My 45GB 75gxp is about $165 US.

[nehalmistry]

k.,.... thx guys

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Paulr]

Yes, don't be put off by WD now a days.
90% of the drive is manufactured by IBM and those IBM drives are just unbeatable.

[SteveC]

We've used fujitsu drives almost exclusively for about 4 years now at work and love them!

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Cheers,
Steve

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

[Gurm]

Are there "Best Buy" stores in Canada?

I only ask because you can pick up the WD drives cheap cheap cheap nowadays at retailers. Best Buy was running a promo a couple weeks back with a 30GB drive for $139 USD with a rebate AND a free DVD of your choice from their rack. Not bad.

- Gurm

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[MultimediaMan]

Western Digital has long (3 years) since cleaned up their act.

I've had only 1 DOA drive from them, and one outright failure: the failed drive took only 5 years to die, and the DOA was swapped in 5 days. Not bad by any standard.

Stay away from Samsung...Nearly every one I've ever had to work with more than a year or two old had developed problems.

Quantum Bigfoots: Stay away.

[Jorden]

I've got one Fujitsu 9Gb 7200rpm drive in my home machine, plus an older 10.5Gb 5400rpm drive. Don't ask me for the name of it, for I don't remember

The Fujitsu hangs on the Iwill ATA-66 card, whereas the CD-ROM, LS-120 and other drive take up my normal ATA-33 connectors. And it works all fine

What I would do, if I were you, was to get the programs these manufacterers have on their websites, to check your drive and partition it in their normal way. Their programs are too good to not check

Fujitsu for instance has one program that checks your drive for malfunctions, partition it, and format it all on low level, before you may hang it in with the other drives. I like this way of thinking.

I've had to send two Maxtors back to the store I bought them from, as they were DOA. Imagine my surprise when I got the Fujistu finally, plus a 200 guilder retour. Not only was it cheaper, but it was way way way way better than their equivalents from that other mfr

Jord.

Edit: Thanks to MMMan I know what my other drive is It's a Seagate, and that's the ST39140A


[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 09 February 2001).]

[MultimediaMan]

I concur...

IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, et al. all have some damn fine drive setup and partitioning utilities.

Best of all, they re bootable.

[xortam]

Has anyone ever gotten an IBM drive that was DOA? Why mess around ... go for the best!

[DirtFarmer]

I've never seen one DOA, but on the bench at work I have a 30GB IBM which puked. It's less than 3 weeks old.

All hard drives will fail, some sooner than others, this fine IBM speciman didn't fare so well.

Fujitsu's are quiet, and run cool, I have seen plenty of them fail to.

My 5 maxtor's will fail someday too...

If you want bragging rights, go with IBM

--
Al


[This message has been edited by DirtFarmer (edited 09 February 2001).]

[nehalmistry]

how nice, you all contradict each other :=)

i guess some people have bad experiences with some hard drives, and other people with other hard drives... quite perplexing...

i think im gonna buy this Quantum LM 30gig 7200rpm HD i found for $190 (~$125 US)

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[MultimediaMan]

Personal experience counts for a great deal with posters here...No Flame: you obviously were looking for an opinon, otherwise you wouldn't have asked.

Most Hard Drives are extremely good nowadays, so it is largely a case of personal preference.

There are some drives that are better than others in nearly every category, but there are some makes and models that were more failure or error prone.

E.G. the vaunted IBM DeskStars have had some serious issues with a number of disk controllers and operating systems (Recently fixed, but they did exist.). Some Maxtors caught fire sponaneously... obviously, some problems are more serious than others... :-)

Best,

M^2

[nehalmistry]

multimediaman: oh dont take it like that, i was looking for an opinion and i got it... im not complaining... actually i was expecting to hear this, but wanted to hear the opposite

i had an old non-udma 5gig Western Dig. hard drive... still running fine to this day (although not in my comp).

as for my current quantum hard drive... it spun down and kept on doing it until i switched my computer off.... it wouldnt stop doing it unless i leave it off overnight, happended twice before... other than that its been fine...



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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025