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Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: aknimitz on February 08, 2003, 12:05:39 AM

What is a good harddrive to purchase these days? I'm not looking to spend a large sum of money, $100-ish is really about it. I have two smaller harddrives right now, a 30Gig and a 10Gig (both 7200rpm, I think one is Maxtor and the other WD)- but with my MP3 collection I think these guys are gettin' beat up a little bit.

ANy guidance would sure be appreciated! :)

Nim

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: Pfunk on February 08, 2003, 01:37:47 AM

Western Digital Special Edition 8 MB buffer hands down, accept none other. Dont look anymore, dont ask anymore, thats all there is to it

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: qts on February 08, 2003, 03:52:42 AM

And if your motherboard supports RAID, buy two and mirror them.

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: aknimitz on February 08, 2003, 08:24:10 AM

Thanks for input. I noticed Maxtor now has an 8MB buffer hard drive? Is it worth looking at?

Nim

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: WxMan on February 08, 2003, 08:35:50 AM

Just purchased a WD 80gb HD with 8mb buffer from Circut City. Opened it up and was pleased to find that Western Digital put in a 100gb drive instead.

I'm impressed with how fast and quite it is and would recommend it to anyone.

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: Eagler on February 08, 2003, 09:23:37 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Pfunk
Western Digital Special Edition 8 MB buffer hands down, accept none other. Dont look anymore, dont ask anymore, thats all there is to it

what he said

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: Pfunk on February 08, 2003, 11:19:51 AM

Quote

Originally posted by aknimitz
Thanks for input. I noticed Maxtor now has an 8MB buffer hard drive? Is it worth looking at?

Nim

I REPEAT

Western Digital Special Edition 8 MB buffer hands down, accept none other. Dont look anymore, dont ask anymore, thats all there is to it:D

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: bloom25 on February 08, 2003, 11:49:41 AM

I recommend either the Special Edition Western Digitals or the Seagate Barracuda IV & V series.  (The 120 GB drive is available with an 8 MB buffer.)

Title: Harddrive Purchase?
Post by: funkedup on February 09, 2003, 02:53:02 PM

Yep the WD JB series are freaking awesome.  I had no idea it was going to improve my system that much.  Stuff like Adaware and VirusScan goes waaay faster.