Trouble formating new hardrive

[krish123]

i am in the process of refunding the hardrive, therefore am looking for a replacment, any1 know a good quality drive with a capcity of around 250gb. what is the cache/buffer speed of the hard drive and is it important to have a good speed say a 8mb cache?

[Broken]

Western Digital isn't a bad brand. There's going to be a certain number of defective devices in every lot, from any brand. I would guess that at this point you are feeling a bit soured about them though, so I would recommend something from Seagate.

On an external USB connected hard drive cache is just about irrelevant. Your speed is crippled by the interface and not the drive. More cache is better, and allows for faster loading for files. But 8mbs vs 16mbs, you're not gonna see it unless you go eSATA instead of USB.

[krish123]

ok thanks for that, is the likes of maxtor and buffalo any gd, is there any particular models that are well rated?