Hard Drive recomendation

[macca]

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Hi,

I need to replace my hard disk soon as it is about to die immenently!!

I am looking for a 160GB drive, IDE, 7200RPM or better and most importantly
that it is quiet.

Was looking at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100.

I would appreciate any views on this drive or recommendations on others,

Cheers
Macca

 

[Dee]

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Macca wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to replace my hard disk soon as it is about to die immenently!!
>
> I am looking for a 160GB drive, IDE, 7200RPM or better and most importantly
> that it is quiet.
>
> Was looking at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100.
>
> I would appreciate any views on this drive or recommendations on others,
>
> Cheers
> Macca
>
>

I think that 7200 rpm is the top speed for most IDE drives and there
probably isn't a significant difference in noise level between the
different brands. If you like the Hitachi, and it's at a good price,
then I would say "go for it!"

 

[TJ]

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Seagate now has a 5 year warrenty! I bought one after using Maxtor and WD
for years, so far I love it. www.newegg.com

"Dee" <dee@home.net> wrote in message
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> Macca wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to replace my hard disk soon as it is about to die immenently!!
>>
>> I am looking for a 160GB drive, IDE, 7200RPM or better and most
>> importantly
>> that it is quiet.
>>
>> Was looking at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100.
>>
>> I would appreciate any views on this drive or recommendations on others,
>>
>> Cheers
>> Macca
>>
>>
>
> I think that 7200 rpm is the top speed for most IDE drives and there
> probably isn't a significant difference in noise level between the
> different brands. If you like the Hitachi, and it's at a good price, then
> I would say "go for it!"
>

 

[Guest]

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"Tj" <tjtj1960@frontiernet.net.nospam> wrote in message
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> Seagate now has a 5 year warrenty! I bought one after using Maxtor and WD
> for years, so far I love it. www.newegg.com

The WD Enterprise series (including Raptors) also have a 5-yr. warranty.

 

[BudMan]

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"Macca" <asbc31@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I need to replace my hard disk soon as it is about to die immenently!!
>
> I am looking for a 160GB drive, IDE, 7200RPM or better and most
> importantly
> that it is quiet.
>
> Was looking at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100.
>
> I would appreciate any views on this drive or recommendations on others,
>
> Cheers
> Macca
>
>
After building systems with all of the major brands of drives, its my
unscientific observation that none of the brands out there have a higher
failure rate than the other. Yes some of them are a bit nosier, but for the
casual user its subjective. If you plan on keeping your system for awhile
then warranty should be the deicing factor.
BTW, my personal system is running a Hatchi 120GB drive as the primary, the
slave is a 40GB Seagate. The case fans must mask the drive noise, because I
can't hear it even with a virus scan scanning the drive. The Seagate is
mostly used as the scratch drive for Photoshop and Premiere projects.