i have seen a lot of threads and posts with people complaining their hard drives have bit the dust. what is the best hard drive out there these days. i'm building my first computer and don't want to make a stupid mistake. thankyou for awnsering a newbies question.
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best hard drive?
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Welcome to the Forums Satai.
The Western Digital 8MB cache models at NewEgg show they come with a 3 year warranty... better than the 1 year warranty that seems to come with most hard drives.
The Western Digital 8MB cache models at NewEgg show they come with a 3 year warranty... better than the 1 year warranty that seems to come with most hard drives.
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Def go w/WD they have some good service
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I would go with either the WD or maybe a maxtor. As said above the WD has the better warranty and they are good drives. With any drive you get you are taking a chance with a failure, but that is where the 3 year warranty is comes in.
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in terms of performance, the Hitachi/IBM 7K250 is the fastest 7200rpm drive right now.
In terms of reliability, Seagate is best. Seagate make the most reliable hard drives, but they are slow.
shiyan said:
In terms of reliability, Seagate is best. Seagate make the most reliable hard drives, but they are slow.
shiyan said:
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i was planning on getting the WD 120GB from newegg and i saw the 3 year warrenty, however at the time i did not know wether that warrenty was pretty much universal for Hard Drive manufacturers. thanks for the advice. now i'm not just stumbling around in the dark here. and thanks for the welcome.
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As with anything, it depends on what you're looking for.
Seagate are very quiet, and are reliable, but not the fastest.
WD is what I usually go with. The Raptors are the fastest IDE drives on the market right now (SATA, 10,000 rpm, 8mb cache), with a 5 year warranty(!), but they're small (36 gig) and expensive for their size. There are other WD drives out right now that are larger and not as costly, but not quite as fast and with a 3 year warranty (which is still pretty good).
Seagate are very quiet, and are reliable, but not the fastest.
WD is what I usually go with. The Raptors are the fastest IDE drives on the market right now (SATA, 10,000 rpm, 8mb cache), with a 5 year warranty(!), but they're small (36 gig) and expensive for their size. There are other WD drives out right now that are larger and not as costly, but not quite as fast and with a 3 year warranty (which is still pretty good).
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