Recommended 250gb HDD

[xrey]

Hey guys,

i'm currently building a new rig, and i'm looking for a good 250gb HDD thats fast, and i can get for around £40. Ill be buying two of them. Preferably they should be S300, but any recommended will do!

I have no idea about HDDs, so help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[onestar]

Personally, I like the seagate drives...they seem to be a little more noisy than western digital while accessing data but....they have a 5 year warranty period and 2X500GB is very nice in a raid array.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

 

[gent]

Just to confuse things...
For SATA I prefer Samsung, only 3 year warranty, very quiet, run a few degrees cooler than other drives, and have a good sustained transfer of data.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-018-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768

second choice would be Hitachi, 5 year warranty, a bit quicker (maybe), but more noise and a higher running temperature.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-023-HI&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768

Don't have much experience with Seagate or (current) Western Digital.

The current value-for-money sweet-spot are the 500Gig drives, a few more bucks for double the capacity.

 

[mahoumatic]

£40 is enough for 320GB for some model in my local store...

If you want the fastest 250GB drive in the market, I guess
it would be Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250620AS
(SATA-II, 16MB Cache, 250GB). It's in my desktop now
and the performance is solid. However, it's a bit noisy...

If you want to have a drive for AVPC/HTPC, I would
highly recommand Hitachi GST's CinemaStar series
(in your case CinemaStar 7K500). I was once ordering
the cheapest drive HGST's Deskstar T7K250 in local store
and they wrongly give me the more expensive CinemaStar
7K500 series. The two drives working noiseless inside my
Antec P150 even when doing harsh file copy, make me
feel so good. Inside the same case the 7200.10 320GB was
the only noise-maker as I am using onboard display...

Don't wanna recommand any WD, as my company was building
desktop PCs with several 250GB SATA drive around
one year ago, and ALL of them(>5 drives) are
either having problem of bad sector or RMA...

 

[xrey]

im not bothered about noise, i want performance, i originally had a seagate ST3250820AS in mind. Any other recommendations.

 

[xrey]

I had the SP2504C in mind, but tests showed that the seagate is slightly faster. Whats the difference between the ST3250620AS and the ST3250620NS?

 

[onestar]

According to the specs....nothing at all

The seagate seems to be your choice.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262

 

[raptorxt]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB is a great drive and it has a lot more (good) reviews than the NS it is also $10 less

 

[xrey]

i think i'm going to go with the 410AS that onestar posted, its same price pretty much and gets slightly better reviews

 

[xrey]

Sorry guys what are the advantages of S300 over, SATAII

 

[xrey]

Nevermind told you i was an idiot!