HEEEELP!!!

[Eldarion]

I am buying a new hard drive.(40gb, 7200/min, 2mb cache.

Please tell me which to buy and why: Seagate Barracuda, IBM, Maxtor, WD Caviar.

Thanks in advance.
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[andyswork@beci.net]

This is up to you and your needs. I would check em all out. I like western digetal because I think they have the best hard drive tools.


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[Gallaeglagh]

IBM has had some problems with their drives quitting early according to some reports

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[Paleo Pete]

I've used all of those except IBM from 100MB or so up to 20GB, all have done very well. I have to put in a plug for Maxtor, my 2.8GB Maxtor drive has worked great for almost 5 years, and where I live the power blinks off and back on usually at least once a week, normally while I'm working on something I don't want to use...and it took over 4 years of that before it finally developed its first bad cluster, according to scandisk and McAffee's Nuts & Bolts. I won't hesitate to get another Maxtor.

Seagate...I have Seagate MFM and RLL 10-20MB drives in XT machines that still work perfect, well over 10 years old...as well as 120-340MB IDE drives in 286/386/486 computers still plugging away with no problems.

WD Caviar...no MFM drives, but I do have small IDE drives 10 years old still working, no problems or complaints yet. One was a 2GB drive that was my back up drive alongside the Maxtor 2.8GB for over a year, it took at least 30 power downs without damage. As far as I know it still works, it's not in use at the moment but will be soon.

I've also gotten dead drives in used machines by all of these manufacturers, just to be fair, but with a used machine you have no idea what it may have been put through...and a couple that worked for a few months and suddenly died, but there again I have no idea what they had been through before I got them. Still, a drive that's 8-10 years old and works...I figure it's gotta be a decent drive to begin with.

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