Which HDD to get?

[Sainteh]

I'm looking at getting a new hard drive, hoping to get a nice big ass one as moving stuff about on CDs is just getting agro now.
At the moment i've got 2 40gb Baracuda IV's. I had em in raid till they went all deaded and so now they are seperate, but I just need more space. I'm thinking something from 140 to 200 gb would be nice.
Any suggestions?

[BatWick]

Originally posted by Sainteh
I'm looking at getting a new hard drive, hoping to get a nice big ass one as moving stuff about on CDs is just getting agro now.
At the moment i've got 2 40gb Baracuda IV's. I had em in raid till they went all deaded and so now they are seperate, but I just need more space. I'm thinking something from 140 to 200 gb would be nice.
Any suggestions?

get a RAID card so u can use those 2, and then another 4 on the RAID card.

get a western digital 80gb for windows and operating system/programs ,for speed.
Then stick the 2 40s onto the RAID card seperate for 80gb space, and get another 2 hard drives for even more spoace, whatever it turns out gives you the best value for money.

[Gunsmith]

get the WESTERN DIGITAL 120gig with 8meg cache

absolutly stuningly good hdds that are coming down in price

hell i got 2 of em and i want a 3rd :D

[Sainteh]

atm, i've got one of mah hdds as just storeage, and the other is split into 2 partitions, one 5gb for os and the rest for programs.
I had them in raid(0) before, but they buggered em selves and well.. i lost the lot :P
Hmmm, ain't the WD hdd's udma 100?

-saint

[tiSSue]

a seagate barracuda =]

[I R Crazy Hippo]

i got a western digital hdd. only 80gb but they are bloody ace:D

i would definatley buy the 120gb (they were too expensive when i bought the 80gb but as gunsmith said they ae dropping in price.....about £110 from www.theoveclockingstore.co.uk or www.overclockers.co.uk )

[Brains-Lans]

My suggestion to you is to go for the fastest speed disk (rpm) you can with the most cache (Mb) and the fastest ribbon speed (UDMA rating).

You should never skimp on disks, everything in a pc is replacable BUT the data. Buy from a good manufacturer.

I would go and search ebuyer or simply and make some suggestions but I am kinda busy atm.

[Noodleman]

if your looking for storage, and your not so bothered about the rpm of the drive, I would sugest the maxtor 250gb drives.

You can get them in both 5400rpm, and 7200rpm.

Price goes up about £40 for the 7200.

The drive works out at just over £1 per gig.

Not bad imho, and on my shoping list for after payday.

[wishy]

Go Seagate

[bigc90210]

yea, seagate barracudas rock, theyre so damn quiet too!

[Cabe]

seagate are teh win

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SEG-BA120

Seagate Barracuda Series 120GB Hard Drive 7,200rpm 9.0ms 2Mb ATA 100

120 gig for 102 quid (+ del) cant say fairer than that.

[Baz]

imho anything more than 40gig becomes a giant extension of your recycle bin. so ner

i do have a 40gig seagate barracude tho, stonkin drive.

[Jez_Gafys]

get a fujitsu drive ive had a 6.4Gb in my machine for almost 6 years now and it is still running great (best not have jinxed it), during that time I have had ibm, seagate, western digital and maxtor drives fail on me. It could just possibly be the more plates the squeeze into these drives the less stability the drive has thats why the fujitsu lasted so long

[Noodleman]

http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/

if your quick, HDD's are on offer today

[Cheez]

Originally posted by Jez_Gafys
get a fujitsu drive ive had a 6.4Gb in my machine for almost 6 years now and it is still running great (best not have jinxed it), during that time I have had ibm, seagate, western digital and maxtor drives fail on me. It could just possibly be the more plates the squeeze into these drives the less stability the drive has thats why the fujitsu lasted so long

Fujitsu drives have higher failure rates than IBM AFAIK. At least the more recent ones do.

[Jez_Gafys]

Cheez as I was saying I think its just modern drives when they are trying to shove more platers to increase Gbs inthe drives it seems to affect stability,

[Chicane]

Maxtor Diamond Max 9 Plus

They havent failed me once, everyone else has:

Komplett.co.uk - 3.5" HDD (http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?AvdID=1&CatID=9&GrpID=1&t=715&l=2)

although they dont have the new 250gig by maxtor:

Scan Computers - HDD (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/drives.htm)

LN4869 250Gb Maxtor ATA-133 (7200rpm, 8Mb Cache) 1Yr 279.00 327.82

a tad expensive but worth it?

[Elbonio]

the WD with 8MB cache r0xx0r

[Noodleman]

Originally posted by Chicane

LN4869 250Gb Maxtor ATA-133 (7200rpm, 8Mb Cache) 1Yr 279.00 327.82

a tad expensive but worth it?

yes, worth it! I got one of these the other day ;) Very wubbly drives :)