Am planning on getting a 320GB HD, and am wondering which company is better....
Help anyone?
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Am planning on getting a 320GB HD, and am wondering which company is better....
Help anyone?
ummm... am looking for at least 300GB.. 150 aint enough.. but you're saying WD 7200RPM 320GB is fine? :)
Personally I prefer Seagate because they have a better warranty and are generally quieter.
i prefer seagate because of the 5 years warranty and all of my 3 seagate hdds are working still fine
Yep. Either way you go, you'll be fine. I've always stuck with WD because they have always treated me right, but I also have a Seagate 200GB as well right now. No complaints.
I think they are both quality. It all comes down to preference - Chevy vs Ford type thing.
No probs, thanks Skizo :)
I highly recommend the 320GB Seagate. Their perpendicular recording technology is just superb and they are way quieter.
This combo is a screamin deal.
Everything that's not Maxtor is fine.
I personally always preffer WD as I have been through 23 HDD's the last 6 years and none of them has ever failed.
I have had 10 Seagate disk too and 3 of the died, but that might just be bad luck as I have a friend that has 40 Seagate disks (yeah he got too much money) and no problems.
I wouldnt go with WD pieces of crap. Ive have a 160gb Samsung drive and it has last me for 5 years and its still going. Got a 3 year old WD drive and the POS didnt work and was very noisy. So I got another 250gb Samsung and its running excellent.
When I got the new Samsung the computer tech said that Samsung will no longer be selling to Canada and that they will be replacing them with Seagates which are comparible in quality.
If I may add...... STAY AWAY from Maxtor harddrives. They are very,very evil things.
Maxtor is the spawn of satan :dabs:
You might wanna have a look at Samsung's Spinpoints as well, tralala. They are all right as far as the performance goes, quiet, and usually cheap-ish.
Well, I've been using Maxtor drives for about 8 years now and had my first failure last year. They replaced it without quibble.
Maxtor are now owned by Seagate.
Oddly enough, I've seen two (and heard of another) Western Digital drives that have gone faulty - a loud click and then inaccessible through DOS or Windows.
My latest is Samsung SATA. I bought it cos everyone seems to be selling them at the local fairs st very reasonable prices. Apart from the very quiet motor whir it's silent even when reading/writing. I'm impressed.
The point of all this?
They're all about as reliable as each other so you can really base your choice on performance & price.
well the main reason i asked was because the PC place i usually go to deals with WD, and was just trying to figure out whether or not it's worth while going forward with it :)
thanks for all the replies guys :)
ok have ordered the 320GB WD HDD..
just one more thing - how do i go about partitioning it?
secondary.. the slave drive.
Then it's easy.
I'll assume you're using XP...
Right click on My Computer and choose "Manage".
In the new window, look on the left hand pane and click "Disk Management".
Your new drive will show up as "unallocated space".
Right click on the new drive and choose to "create new partition" and you're off to the races.
sweet :) thanks :D
i'd say Seagate
I got a 250GB external SG for $60 AR and a 400GB external WD for $100 AR ($40).
I have a $200 internal WD in my Xbox and I think I paid $50 AR for that at the time.
i bought a seagate pata hdd and it was whisper quite, so upgraded to a sata from them, but its the noisiest drive ive heard in a long time. i was really dissapointed
I had an external maxtor break down for me earlier this year, and a couple of older internal ones kept losing sectors or something, a couple of years back.
Might just beverybad luck, tho' :dabs:
Edit: actually, very bad luck would probably mean explosions of some sort and me losing an eye or something, so scratch that.
EDitII: The noise level on current Samsungs, at least the spinpoints I've tried, is excellent. When I put mine in I thought they weren't working at first, as my fans are loud enough to mask what little sound there is.
:dabs:
Let's hope mine don't do a maxtor then.
WTF i got the HDD, put it in, connected it all fine (the chap at the shop did that), turned the PC on, but it didnt recognize the HDD.. we tried formatting it with a disk... still wouldnt recognize it... what could be the problem???
checked the BIOS, it ain't there...
it doesnt have jumpers - its SATA.. no slave/master on it.
its a PC from last year.. works perfect.. just no idea why this is suddenly not recognizing that a new HDD has been inserted.
Is it the only SATA drive?
Is the SATA controller enabled in the BIOS?
Does the drive show up in the Device Manager?
nope doesnt show up in the device manager.
the other drive is also SATA.
didnt swap cables with old drive...
it does work, cos the guy at the shop tried the HDD on one of the PC's there and it was recognized..
i have no idea what could possibly be causing the problem.
Check the connections made by "the chap".
Power and data interface connections.
will do soon.. thanks :)
if its not that.. is there anything else it could be?
What motherboard do you have?
Many boards have more then one sata controller and some allow for en/dis-abling ports individually.
here's what i have:
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8...oardgf5.th.gif
prob. need a dif. motherboard to have SATA drives