Fastest mid-range hard drive?

[AMD_Man]

Other than the 8MB cache 80GB WD hard drive, what other mid-range (60GB to 80GB) hard drives perform well?

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[slickstaa]

even though ata133 doesnt help much, I like the Maxtor drives.

 

[Clarentavious]

Actually, unless you actually are going to use the space, I wouldn't recommend a drive above 40GB. I think WD's best 7200 RPM drives are 40GB per platter, so more than 40 is going to give you more than 1 platter (they'll be more prone to crashing as well).

Most current drives in the IDE area other than what you mentioned have a 2MB cache.

I guess I would recommend a Maxtor as well, but just check, most motherboards (except for newer ones, like the KT333 - some models of the 266A have ATA-133 support through RAID, like a version Abit vendors) only naturally support ATA-100. You might have to buy a controller for ATA-133

If you're not looking into Maxtor or WD, IBM has some ok drives. Avoid Samsung.

 

[blah]

<<Fastest mid-range hard drive?>>

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[Arrow]

I'd recommend a Maxtor.

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[lhgpoobaa]

maxtor D740x or IBM 120GXP

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[dhlucke]

Avoid IBM like the plague. That leaves maxtor as your alternative.

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[blah]

Avoid maxtor like the plague. That leaves IBM as your alternative.



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[dhlucke]

No, that leaves pen and paper

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[OldBear]

I agree. No more HDD for me.

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