Wanting A New HDD

[toj.cc]Phantom · 02-28-2010, 10:18 AM

Okay I have a strict budget of $55.47 (including shipping) and I would love to get 500 GB HDD or bigger within that budget. Any recomendations?

This is the one I'm thinking of getting; Seagate Barracuda

What do you guys think of the one above?

booB · 02-28-2010, 10:45 AM

Nowadays, there's not much quality difference between HDDs (as long as they're reputable brands). That one's got pretty normal specs for its type, and is a reputable company. Personally, I generally go for Maxtor, because I like their disk utility package, but that's just me.

RLacey · 02-28-2010, 12:30 PM

Maxtor and Seagate are the same company nowadays.

[toj.cc]Phantom · 02-28-2010, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RLacey

Maxtor and Seagate are the same company nowadays.

I was gonna say that lol, I think I'm going to go with this one. Its only 4.50 over what I wanted to spend and it has free shipping...

Seagate Barracuda

booB · 02-28-2010, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RLacey

Maxtor and Seagate are the same company nowadays.

Oh. LOL... I think I have a WD right now anyway.

***tabacco*** · 03-01-2010, 11:45 PM

Don't know how they fit in your budget, but the WD Caviar Black drives are hands down my favorite.

I've had very questionable luck with Seagate's drives in the last few years. I was buying them as server drives at Telltale and we saw several failures. I also replaced one in my machine at home and noticed a pretty obvious improvement in both I/O performance and noise level.

Don't bother with the Caviar Black server drives though. They're just normal caviar blacks with slightly tweaked firmware to improve fault tolerance under a raid controller, and a higher price tag.

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booB Junior Mint Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Posts: 350	Nowadays, there's not much quality difference between HDDs (as long as they're reputable brands). That one's got pretty normal specs for its type, and is a reputable company. Personally, I generally go for Maxtor, because I like their disk utility package, but that's just me. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ *I'm in my undies. That's... SO not appropriate.*

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RLacey The Thread™ will die. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 22,542	Maxtor and Seagate are the same company nowadays. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ RLacey \| Killer of the Thread™ I do not change to be perfect. Perfect changes to be me.

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*tabacco* Friendly Server Admin Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Marin County, CA Posts: 4,087	Don't know how they fit in your budget, but the WD Caviar Black drives are hands down my favorite. I've had very questionable luck with Seagate's drives in the last few years. I was buying them as server drives at Telltale and we saw several failures. I also replaced one in my machine at home and noticed a pretty obvious improvement in both I/O performance and noise level. Don't bother with the Caviar Black server drives though. They're just normal caviar blacks with slightly tweaked firmware to improve fault tolerance under a raid controller, and a higher price tag. Share Share this post on Twitter

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