which is the best 120 Gigs P-ATA drive

[medhunter]

Hi , every body.My first post in this forum.

hey experts ; I want ur help

wanna buy P-ATA IDE hard disk which one 2 choose?

the most available here (not buying via Internet) are

Maxtor diamond plus 9 7200 RPM

W.D Caviar 7200 RPM

Seagate Paracoda 7200 RPM

they r almost the same price (2-3% difference)

which one to choose ?

[XtremeMaC]

I've WD 8mb cache 7200 rpm 120gb hdd.. its working pretty good.

i'd have bought seagate, but it was more expensive at that time..

if u can get a s-ata 10000 rpm )

[cazzman]

go the wd caviar se.

great cost per gigabyte and runs good.

[Aaron]

The WDs Caviars are very good, got 2 of them here

Go for the SATA WD Raptor 74gb if you can

[medhunter]

thx ,guys

I wanna state that a 8 mb cache is really expensive for me @ this time

so I will stick to 2mb cache disks

well nobody tried Maxtor b4?

well I did ; it was fine but didn't try W.D or Paracoda myself for enough time

so now what I got is:at least practically W.D takes the lead.

well any other commens?

& plz specify ur experience with them after comparing theoritically coz @ my level (I am not a harware guy)I noticed almost no significant differnces between them theoritically according to their specifications on the site.

[XtremeMaC]

hey there are lots of webpages that tecnically compare them

tom's hardware, chip magazine, pc world magazine

i'm sure they've some sort of statistics..

@aaron

hey if u haven't got your raptor's yet look at this page

http://wdraptorpromo.wdc.com/

they've mail-in rebate $20 for 74gb

Edited April 19, 2004 by XtremeMaC

[Aaron]

Rebates? I'm not in the USA

[nonone]

Rebates? I'm not in the USA

not there but I wish 2 be there

I had WD - HDD 120 GB - 8 MB cach , but it stoped ( dead) . I use it only 6 monthes , I lost about 100 gb Applications + flims +many cool things...

120 gb = 114 Gb ( HAAA)

you can use only 114 GB from this HDD > (Formated Data)

using other brand can earn 2 gb more

I am useing Now Maxtor , working better .

but as XtremeMaC and AaronXP said Go for the SATA WD Raptor 74gb if you can . 10000 RPM

[hyunkeru]

I used to work in a computer store. I tried most of those hdds. I think I will go with WDC or seagate.