need hard drive... suggestions

[demon-eater]

okay here my problem. my new burner 24x10x is alittle too fast for my hard drive right now so i can only burn at like 10x i have a 40Gb 5400 diamondback 60 maxtor HD... now i wanna get a 20Gb to run windows and burn stuff off of so i can burn it at like 20x so it doesn't take so gosh darn long.. any suggestions on what to get.. i was thinking of getting a western digital or sumthin with 7200rpm.. maybe that new hard drive with a 8mb cache on it.. what you people think?

[UncleD]

Pretty much any modern 7200rpm harddrive will be okay, but personally i prefer the IBM 60gxp's and the Seagate Barracuda IV. both are excellent performers and the seagate is very quiet too. The WD with 8mb cache is only available in 100gb afaik.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

actually...even a UDMA 33 hard drive is faster than a CDRW.

If you are getting underrun errors, it's nothing to do with the speed. Are your hard dive and CDRW on the same ribbon?

[tejpalsihra]

Get a quantum Fireball..... there fast, reliable, and i love mine to peices.. :) :) :)

[xdroorsx]

i'm with uncled on this one. i have dual ibm 60gxp 20gig'ers in a raid0 setup, and it's nearly "more than i could possibly need". i've read many good things about them, and am definitely happy with what i got :)

[OC-Master]

Maxtor's 80GB D740X ATA133 drive is simply the best, combining 80GB with 7200RPM and ATA-133 technology. I LOVE THIS DRIVE!!!!!

[Blackearth]

i highly recommend going w/ a seagate hard drive, some say they're tops. and i would agree, i've got 2 barracuda 4 40 gigs in raid0 and i love them. about your problem, i don really think that the problem is your hard drive...is your hdd on the same cable? if so try switching it, what brand of burner do you have and what software are you using?

[XprincoX]

quantums got my vote. :D

And stay away from WD! :p

[Billvill]

ok here is my 2 cents IBM

Billy

[Ritteri&Bubbles]

Stay away from Western Digital and IBM 60GXP's,75GXP's. IBM has 2 lawsuits against them right now for the rediculously high failure rate of their new drives. Western Digital is just your basic generic HD. The 740's from Maxtor(Quantum)are awesome drives and so are the Seagate Barracuda's.

Regardless, I doubt you need a new HD, as even a basic 5400 RPM drive will have no problem keeping up with ANY cd burner. SOunds to me like you are either using the HD on the same cable as the burner,or your using a Roxio program(which is garbage and has many bugs inherant)or you have settings wrong. I would give us more detail about your system configuration before I can make a good logical guess to your problem.

[demon-eater]

1.4ghz t-bird
630MB SDRAM
maxtor and seagate 40Gb 5400, 100 hard drives and a 24x,10, acer burner with burn proof

[pqt]

I used to think the world of IBM drives.
I have 2 75GXP 30giggers setup on a Raid0 combo since Nov.2000. After I bought them, I heard about all those horror stories about IBM drives stability. So I was crossing my fingers and thought luck was on my side since the drive ran flawlessly...Until yesterday,that is.
While doing a routine defrag, I heard that awful scratching noise and my system froze. Trying to run scandisk from DOS brought the same problem. Look like the drives (or at least one of them) have gone bad at some spot around the edge, and nothing I tried could repair it.
Right now I could still boot into Windows but I don't know for how long. I'm cleaning out all my stuff and will try a low level formatting. But it probably would be better to start looking for a couple of new drives, since the warranty on the IBMs just ran out last month!
I think I'll avoid IBM from now on:mad: