September 22, 200520 yr I need to buy a HDD, I did buy a maxtor 160gb but it died so i want to know whats a good hard drive.My Specs:160-200 gig HDD7500 RPMATA-133 40 pin connector
September 22, 200520 yr Hitachi, Western Digital, and Samsungs are mine favorites... but the one I like the most is the Hitachi... And the worst hard drive manufacter to buy from in my humble opionon is Maxtor... I had a 80gb and it died within 3 months, sent it back the new one did the same thing and both were brand new... Hitachi rules!
September 22, 200520 yr I need to buy a HDD, I did buy a maxtor 160gb but it died so i want to know whats a good hard drive.My Specs:160-200 gig HDD7500 RPMATA-133 40 pin connector<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I swear by the Hitachi Deskstar model line.8MB of cache, 3 year warranty. good tools and great customer support web site.I will never use western digital again. Ive seen too many crash and burn and their customer service doesn't seem as responsive.
September 22, 200520 yr Try thisActually to get to pricegrabber paste this in as your Web address (this forum software cuts my URL in half)http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=11/vendors[]=HIT/popup4[]=30:392/popup3[]=10:144/popup1[]=160:393/sortby=priceAThat will query drives in close to what you are looking for Edited September 22, 200520 yr by DarkShadows
September 23, 200520 yr hitachi and seagate are my favorites<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I was just about to ask if anyone still used Seagate? I had one of their drives for a long time; it was great, and worked really well...until it literally got fried by a family member....
September 23, 200520 yr I swear by the Hitachi Deskstar model line.I agree, the Deskstar models from Hitachi are great drives.
September 23, 200520 yr When i was working at a online computer parts supplier, the most hard drives we had back where maxtor, the least was between seagate and Western Digital, Hitachi where middle.When compared to the amount sold, it wasnt down to the fact of selling more maxtors than other drives, there wasnt hat much of a bigger difference.I have also spoken to a data recorecy agency once for a customer, and they had mostly maxtors back as well.
September 23, 200520 yr Author Is this good hard drive?:Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160GB Hard Drive Edited September 23, 200520 yr by computerMan
September 23, 200520 yr @computerMan: Oh, ok... It is still a nice buy... Im on a Western Digital 120 7200 RPM.7 8mb cache... Hope it goes good with the drive when u buy it!
September 23, 200520 yr I like Seagates cause they are inexpensive, quite, decent speed, and have that nice five year warranty...mmmmI also used to suggest IBM/Hitachi, but not so much anymore...just can't see any reason to. Western Digital isn't half-bad either, except for their initial reliability...I've had six of their last ten drives die within the first month. Different sizes and models, all turned into clickers...real annoying.Maxtor and Samsung just seem to 'cheap' to me...but I'm sure they are fine.
September 23, 200520 yr Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160GB Hard Drive= Excellent unit. I have both a 160gb, a 200gb, & a 120gb hitachi and they work perfectly!
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