Author Topic: SATA-150 HDD's (Read 306 times)

SKurj · « **on:** August 09, 2004, 07:40:22 PM »

Time for a new drive...

Which would you choose?

Maxtor 120 or 160gb 7200rpm 8mb cache
Seagate 120 or 160 7200 rpm (not sure cache)
Western Digital 120 or 160gb 7200 8mb cache

Are 10,000 rpm drives worth the extra money (and reduced storage space)?

WD 36gb 10,000 rpm SATA 150 8mb cache (costs $20 more than any of the 7200 drives)

All the above come with 3 yr warranties except the 10k which comes with 5 yrs.
I am tossing in a new drive to setup dual boot, I want to set aside the second for gaming so am looking for speed, durability and not too much noise...

SKurj

Estes · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2004, 08:42:02 PM »

I have a western digital in mine. Used them for awhile. I myself, have never had any problem with them. But, I have replaced some for customers within a year of them buying it.

Never used Seagate. Maxtor makes pretty good ones.

The SATA drives are considerably faster. They load things alot quicker than your 7200 RPM drive.

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2004, 09:13:39 PM »

I have had very good luck with Seagate drives over the past 2 years. They perform basically at par with Maxtor and WD drives, but are far quieter than both if noise is a consideration.

XtrmeJ · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2004, 04:55:01 AM »

All three are great. I'd rate them in this order.
Seagate
Maxtor
Western Digital.

Maxtor is pretty popular but Ilike the seagate's. I know they are good.

Edbert · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:52:32 AM »

Seagate is the best name in HDDs when you are talking about SCSI, they are still trying to break in to consumer class IDE/SATA though. Because of that they are offering pretty attractive rebates. I just bought an ATA-150 200GB 7200RPM 8MB drive for $80. I also went to a local reatiler to get it rather than ordering over the net. You just have to wait for the ads.

Check here often:
http://www.slickdeals.net

Kev367th · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2004, 12:56:08 PM »

Got 2 x 120gb SATA Maxtors myself in a RAID 0 - well nice!!!!
Maxtors seem to be quieter than WDs.
I personally don't think the 10000rpm drives are worth it.

SKurj · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2004, 04:53:57 PM »

Estes.. all the SATA drives I listed with one exception are 7200rpm...

Ok, thanks for the input guys

SKurj

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2004, 05:39:20 PM »

have the 74gb wd raptor 10k 8mb cache 4.5ms access.
faster than my raid0 setup.

Vipermann · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2004, 09:56:45 AM »

Try 2 raptor 74GB drives in a RAID 0 array and 2 36GB raptor drives in a RAID 0 array for your pagefile.