HardDrive Choices

What type of HardDrive should I get?

  • W.D. 2M "BB" IDE 160GB -- $126

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • W.D. 8M "JB" IDE 160GB -- $133

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • W.D. 8M "JD" SATA 160GB -- $154

    Votes: 3 30.0%

  • Seagate 2M IDE 160GB -- $132

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Seagate 8M IDE 160GB -- $150

    Votes: 2 20.0%

  • Seagate 8M SATA 160GB -- $157

    Votes: 3 30.0%
  • Total voters
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matthewjlcoleman
The above are my choices for HardDrive. With the selection you make, please provide reasons why, or something of the like. I have the option of these, as I don't have too much money and the place I'm getting it from is fairly cheap. It's a good place though.

It's almost purely for music and movies though, so nothing great is needed, but I'd like the best out of that list.

I want 160 GB.
 
Go to Pricewatch.com and do a search on
Seagate 8M SATA 160GB or any other hard drive.
You will get easily get one for under $70. Pricewatch is completely safe too. I have bought several computer components for dirt cheap from them including hard drives. Just trying to help. ;)
 
he's in australia so shipping is tougher for him.

I'd say go for the Seagate if you want the quietest drive on the market. Western Digital is good but not as quiet.

...then again, the price on the IDE version of the Seagate is pretty unreasonable. It should cost you no more than $5-10 more than the WD alternative.
 
Edit: The double post gremlin strikes again.
 
This one might be worth checking out, also. Happy hunting, and congrats on the
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position. 👍
 
I have a 160Gb Seagate in my PC and it's barely audible. My second drive is a 60Gb Quantum and it's about 10 times as loud. Although I like a certain amount of sound out of my hard drive. It's a useful indicator of when I need to defrag my hard drive.

I'm not sure about putting a Serial ATA drive into a PC with an IDE connector or vice versa however. At the least you'd need an adapter of some sort, and I don't know if it would be worth it. But I'm not really sure.


KM.
 
Yeah I would have to agree, newegg is a great place I ordered all my computer parts for my gaming rig from them. The shipping is great and have never had any problems with them so far. I would go with a Western Digital :) .
 
I have to disagree on WD. I've never really liked them. Go with Seagate or Maxtor (I know WD is owned by one of them, but they didn't change their manufacturing process on the WD drives).
 
WD makes great hard drives.

However, so does Seagate.

Don't like Maxtors...

My brother has a 120GB Seagate, it's quite, and as fast as the rest of the 120GB SATAs. I have a 20GB IDE Seagate, also plenty fast. Was my main drive for a long while, that is, until I got my new "WD1600JBRTL". Now, I didn't really have any specific reason for going WD over Seagate or the like, other than price. At Sam's Club, of which we have one locally, it was only $79.84, a price I simply couldn't resist.

I haven't had anything but excelent time with this drive. No problems during installation, it's extremly quiet, and fairly fast. I recommend it highly, and I also vote for it.
 
I believe the spelling you're looking for is "quiet" (: In this instance I will offer spelling correction because it makes quite a difference (:

The Wester Digital drives I've had experience with have either gone on indefinitely, or died horrible deaths. More of the later I'm afraid. Apple used them for a long time - I'm not sure if they still do. Dell uses them. Though they also use Seagate and Maxtor I believe.

Personally I'm a die hard Maxtor fan. Sony uses them, so it has to be good! (:
 
ExigeExcel
Do speeds really matter (10000rpm/7000rpm)? Or is it all about size.
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That's spin speed, and that's how you get faster seek times. So yes it matters, but it depeneds on how fast a responce you need from your drive. In your situation I would go for the most volume you can get for the lowest price. Also, you need to figure out how much "on" time it will have. Most drives these days are designed to be in home PCs that are turned off, or sleep, over-night and get plenty of down time. If you're going to have this thing on a lot and spinning most of the time, you may want to take that into concideration. I've had a few drive failures and that's no fun.

But even at that level of quality you'll get a couple years out of it before it drops off. So hopefully you'll replace it before then anyway with something bigger, faster, and more reliable.
 
LoudMusic
I believe the spelling you're looking for is "quiet" (: In this instance I will offer spelling correction because it makes quite a difference (:

The Wester Digital drives I've had experience with have either gone on indefinitely, or died horrible deaths. More of the later I'm afraid. Apple used them for a long time - I'm not sure if they still do. Dell uses them. Though they also use Seagate and Maxtor I believe.

Personally I'm a die hard Maxtor fan. Sony uses them, so it has to be good! (:
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Quite right there on the quiet comment. I do that a lot... :dunce:

I've heard the latter from a few buddies as well. Either your WD does well, or you're going to need a new HD, soon.

Fortunatly, this HD seems to do well as far as longevity is concerned. And, for $80...Come on. 👍

On another WD note, I recently built my parents a computer using an 80GB Special Edition WD, it's still holding strong, and quiet. 👍
 
I'm wanting to fill my current case with big hard drives. It holds 10 and I figured having a couple terabytes of RAID5 would be nice.

But that's so much money.
 
I would go for the Seagate SATA, but the other Seagates are fine too.

I have a ST380021A(80gb ide) and ST3120827AS (120gb sata).

Both are fast and quiet.
 
Thanks guys. I'm going for the Seagate 8M IDE 160GB. Thanks for the online, etc, but I'm heading over to the store on the weekend anyway, and I would like it now. I also don't have my own Credit Card, and my parents won't pay a cent for anything for me, so I'm on my own here.

Thanks TB for the congrats, I've had the status for a while now, but I don't get around to too many forums now-a-days, got a lot on my plate.

:cheers:
 
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