What hard drive?? smasung or maxor? ( LINKS INSIDE)

antipesto93 · Apr 24, 2008

i have got it down to two 500gb hard drives

WHAT ONE IS BETTER?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141471/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130454/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended

so its the diamondmax22 or the SpinPoint HD501LJ

pro's / conns?

what will last longer
what is quiter

i need a new hard drive as my old samsung ' burnt ' after a live stripped 12v wire touchd the circuit board at the bottom of the haard drive

i have learnt my lesson.....and i was also wondering if this would be covered by waranty?

sunrunner20 · Apr 26, 2008

IMHO both are terrible choices. Neither Maxtor or samsung has very high reputations for hard drives in my experience. Although, Samsung makes NICE LCD monitors

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I would go with a seagate 7200 series instead.

Automata · Apr 26, 2008

antipesto93 said:
and i was also wondering if this would be covered by waranty?

Since he answered your first question, I will answer this one. NO, it is not covered by the warranty. It is not a defect if something else destroyed the hard drive.

Kuroimaho · Apr 26, 2008

I have the 501LJ or actually already 3 of it, quiet and performs well, the only more quite drives are the WDs 5400-7200 drives but those are also slower check Anandtech for their opinion about the 501LJ but they were also quite pleased with the drive.
I would consider the new 320GB/platter drives, samsung also has some of these and 640GB won't cost much more but performs better I think it's the F1 series from samsung.

Deanzo · Apr 26, 2008

If I had to pick only out of the two you listed, as that is what you asked.
I'd go with the Maxtor.

And as above, no thats not under waranty.

silencer51 · Apr 26, 2008

I would go with the Samsung.

Maxtor drives have a rather bad reputation (they 're made by Seagate these days, but Seagate ain't so hot right now too).

The first batches of Spinpoints had some firmware issues but all is well now. They 're blazingly fast, too. I'll get the 1TB model soon methinks.

sunrunner20 · Apr 26, 2008

silencer51 said:
(they 're made by Seagate these days, but Seagate ain't so hot right now too).

Really now? And what gives you that perception?

Moto7451 · Apr 28, 2008

Newegg reviews me thinks

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I've never had a problem with Samsung drives. They're increasingly getting better in my book. I've never had a customer come to me with one to recover the data off of. The only other company I can say that for is IBM.

What hard drive?? smasung or maxor? ( LINKS INSIDE)

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