please help with hard drive

[Robc1880]

I need to get a new hard drive. My 80GB isn't cutting it anymore so I figured I would get another one. I have a $100 budget and I was looking at possibly 200GB hard drives. I don't want a really noisy hard drive, just one with good seek times. Does anyone have any suggestions for brand and maybe another size? I was thinking maybe WD, Maxtor, or Seagate but don't know which models to choose. Is there another brand I should look at? Thanks in advance for any help.

Xaser 3 case with 420W TT PSU
AXP2500 (11*200 at 1.85v)
9800 Pro 128MB (418/372)
NF7-S v2.0
PDP DDR400 1GB(2-3-2-5)2.6v
Lite-On SOHW-832S
WD 80GB 8mb buffer caviar edition.

 

[folken]

I'd go for the <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-129&depa=0" target="_new">Western Digital WD2000JB</A>. It is a little over your budget at $110 but it is worth the few extra bucks. The 8.9ms seek time is decent for the drive speed/size and I doubt it is noisy at all.
The last hd I ever actually heard make a lot of noise was an Atlas 10k scsi drive. You know, the ones that were 74gb and twice the height of a normal drive One of those would shake a desk, lol.

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[pat]

Seagate has a 5 years warranty...

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[diplomat696]

Maxtors are the shiznit.....go cop one just to confuse u a lil more.

 

[Robc1880]

Thanks for the help guys, I think I will go with Folken's suggestion unless I find an extra $50 and then I will go with a Raptor 74gb and use my current one for storage. Thanks again everyone

Xaser 3 case with 420W TT PSU
AXP2500 (11*200 at 1.85v)
9800 Pro 128MB (418/372)
NF7-S v2.0
PDP DDR400 1GB(2-3-2-5)2.6v
Lite-On SOHW-832S
WD 80GB 8mb buffer caviar edition.

 

[Crashman]

You'd better check to be sure, Seagate has droped the warranties down to 3 years on most of their drives.

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[pat]

Humm. I didnt knew that!!!! mine were still warranted for 5 years , but I bought them 4 month ago.

thanks

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[Crashman]

Yep, somebody wrote me a note to let me know my last hard drive comparison was bogus, I had to tell him "that's fine but I can't change it". I told him to make an announcement about the warranty reduction in the reply thread.

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[jammydodger]

According to this article <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20336" target="_new">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20336</A> seagate are offerring 5year warrenties on all new internal drives.

 

[diplomat696]

bahhh seagate schmeagate, go get yaself some maxtor diamondmax plus 10s and be done with it (only 3 year warranty unfortunately)

 

[Pavelow]

I bought that WD200JB for only $49 after rebates the day after Thanksgiving! Great drive, but I had some problems with the IDE cable that I worked out. I runs great as my capture/storage drive for video editing.

Pavelow

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