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 ?

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 )

go the wd caviar se.

great cost per gigabyte and runs good.

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

Go for the SATA WD Raptor 74gb if you can

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.

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, 200422 yr by XtremeMaC

Rebates? I'm not in the USA

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

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