which hard drive is better

[Guest]

I want to setup a raid config for my gaming rig and I wanted some oppinions on which hardrives are better. I want to get two ibm deskstars 60gb or two wester digital 80gb they are both 7,200 rpm and with 2mb buffers. If i could just get an all around pros and cons on both hardrives that would be great. The raid controller is onboard my soyo dragon (promise fasttrak)

 

[Lars_Coleman]

Between the two brands that you listed I would go with the IBM 60GXP over Western Digital any day! I don't have any pro's and con's just because I never had an IBM. I have had WesternDigital drives though and that's why I would go IBM...

<font color=red>BIOS updates do wonders ....</font color=red>

 

[Guest]

Have you had problems wd or you just figure the ibm has got to be better no matter what

 

[upec]

If you can wait. IBM just come out with the 120GXP.

 

[AEboy128]

I've had trouble with WD drives. I've seen at least 5 fail so far. But they've all been smaller than 4.3gb. I have no experience with IBM.

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