Choose which: 160GB SATA

[mikki]

Choose which? I need new 160 GB Serial ATA hard disk...
Maxtor Diamond plus, Seagate Barracuda, Hitachi 7K250 or maby Samsung?
please They let's advise me..
many thanks
mikolaj

 

[blah]

What are you looking for in HD you are going to choose - speed, accustics, heat, longevity, weight, material it is made of, beauty, shape?

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[dhlucke]

Maxtor sucks. I have a maxtor 160GB drive and it's the slowest and noisiest drive I've had in years.

<i><font color=blue>Edited by Scamtron on 10/11/01 09:58 PM

 

[etp777]

Seagate

 

[davemar14]

It wasn't listed, but Western Digital makes good reliable hard drives. I still have a 850 MB Western Digital running from 1994.

 

[blah]

hehe, and I have 2Gz from 1996 (resting on the shelf in working condition thought

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[Crashman]

Get the Samsung, millions of eMachines systems can't be wrong!

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[blah]

Good point (and those are good drives

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[Crashman]

I'm sorry, I was being sarcastic. Samsung drives I've tried have had dire performance.

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[sjonnie]

Try Hitachi, no one else has suggested it yet, must be good.

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[blah]

Are e-machines fast? (I mean.. a hint

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