Is this a good harddrive? PLEASE READ!!!

[dguy6789]

Alrighty. Im looking for a top notch performing harddrive that will live real long, like 5+ years. I was browsing newegg.com and came accross this baby.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-145-044&catalog=14&depa=1


It is a 250GB Hitachi harddrive with 8MB buffer and 8.5ms seek time. This is the fastest 250GB harddrive I have seen. The problem is, i dont know if hitachi is trustable, and it only has a 1 year warrenty. Would this drive be good?

Also, how fast is the maxtor 300GB?

[wquiles]

If you are looking for a good and fast drive I would look at the SATA Raptor drives (Western Digital). Those are close to rivaling SCSI drives performance-wise and have (if I remember right) a 3 to 5 year warranty.

The only drawback is that they are a little bit expensive (given their storage capacity) and only come in 37 and 72 G sizes, not the 200+ Gigs that you are looking at.

[dguy6789]

yes they look fast, but i need at least 200GB of space and dont want to spend over 300.

[OSUmaxx]

Have you considered cashing in on the office max rebate deal? I got 3 160 GB drives. They are only $60/ea. after rebates.

Western Digital 8MB 7200RPM, etc. Good drives.

[kct2]

Hitachi hard drives are basically IBM hard drives. I always had good luck with IBM drives (but there was the whole deathstar thing...).

In general don't count on a drive lasting longer than its original warranty, as that is as long as the manufacture is willing to guarantee its operation, after that you are on your own. They usually do last longer, but after the warranty period the chance of a problem goes up.

The industry-wide transition to a 1 year standard warranty kinda upsets this theory, but the drives haven't changed since the switch (the same physical drive in different packaging can still have a 3 year) so still use 3 years as the standard for most drives.

All Raptors have a 5 year warranty.

[apenland01]

I picked up the 160 Hitachi SATA drive as it was rated fairly quiet, fast and dependable for the $$$. I also didn't want the heat issue that I have read about with the Raptors.

[NoteUser]

Have you thought about a pair of Seagate SATA 120 running RAID0.

[Chixofnix]

western digital all the way - i won't trust any other brand again

[lansens]

I've used Western Digital, Seagate, and Maxtor. Maxtor is the only brand I would not go back to. I have had several Maxtors die on me.

BTW, where is the heat issue with the Raptors coming from? I've seen that posted several times. I don't get it. I run Raptors and haven't noticed any increase in heat.

Sorry for the threadjack........That drive looks really nice. I wouldn't mind having 2 of those in RAID 1.

[NoteUser]

The heat is probably due to the speed the raptor's run at. There the same rpm as the stardard of scsi hard drives.

[DayUSeX]

hey do you have a link for that office max rebate, i cnat find it on their website and i would lvoe to get 4 of those =P

[wpmegee]

Originally posted by DayUSeX
hey do you have a link for that office max rebate, i cnat find it on their website and i would lvoe to get 4 of those =P

It's instore only.