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Originally posted by johnboy27@29 April 2004 - 18:22
Personally,I would go with the samsung drives (I'm a bit partial to them though as I have one now).I am too paranoid to use any Maxtor drive.I have heard too many bad stories about them.I know I shouldn't dislike them just because they had a bad run of drives but I guess I am just paranoid.
Anyway,as was stated above.SATA is not 30% faster so why bother? I have a regular ATA133 drive now,have had it for over a year and have had absolutely no problems what so ever *knocks on wood,knock knock knock*.
im also not to fond of maxtor drives, becuase of my current drive. The ball bearings for the motor are dry or something like that, so usually (mostly when its cold) when my computer starts up the drive is really loud, itmakes a sort of grinding noise. Im sure the drive will fail some time soon :( i make daily backups of my important info from the second partition onto my old computer's 20gb hard drive (also from maxtor) which is rather noisy...my drive runs really slow at times too, it will sometimes take a very long time to load windows, and i dont have much fragmentation so that isnt teh problem. i think it runs slower becuase of the bad bearings, maybe like 6000rpm instead of 7200?