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[Vicious]

I have a 60GB HD, looking to add a second 120GB or 160GB. Never done this before, and was just wondering what brand I should go for. After looking around, it seems Western Digital has a fair amount of complaints, so I'm leaning towards Seagate.

Also, is newegg.com the best place to buy? I don't want to miss out on a sale or something that might be going on somewhere else. Any advice?

 

[Particle Physicist]

seagate is the only harddrive manufacturer i have never had any problems with.. but sometimes, crazy issues are just luck of the draw.

 

[-james-]

Ive had great luck with western digital myself. I picked up one from circuit city (160gb IDE) for under $50 with rebates. Used their drives for years and not one problem.

Stay away from IBM/Hitachi Deskstar drives, i had one and it caused nothing but problems. Constant errors, crashes and finally the click of death. Luckly i was able to boot to my linux drive and copy all important files before it crapped out completely. Do a search on IBM GXP Deathstar in google and youll see what i mean.

 

[aoi tsuki]

www.techbargains.com is the best place to look based on price.

 

[Vormund]

I've had problems recently with WD

Got a 200Gb SATA drive. Dead after a month.

Replacement for that, dead after 11 months.

Got another replacement for the replacement, wouldn't be surprised if that stopped working too.

 

[-james-]

I've had problems recently with WD

Got a 200Gb SATA drive. Dead after a month.

Replacement for that, dead after 11 months.

Got another replacement for the replacement, wouldn't be surprised if that stopped working too.

Damn. Hopefully the one i have lasts, its been going strong for a couple of months with some heavy use. I have an older maxtor (ive heard they can be crap as well) 20gb as my linux drive with no problems. Is seagate the best, or is it luck of the draw?

 

[bionic77]

Damn. Hopefully the one i have lasts, its been going strong for a couple of months with some heavy use. I have an older maxtor (ive heard they can be crap as well) 20gb as my linux drive with no problems. Is seagate the best, or is it luck of the draw?

Luck of the draw.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Maxtor = Avoid (hot, loud, fails)

Seagate = Great (quiet and cool)

Western Digital = Very Good (their form factos are slightly different, and can potentially cause you a headach if you plan to fit them in some enclosures. Recently had one that got little use, just outright stop working)

IBM and Samsung I tend to avoid because of their past reputations.

 

[Vicious]

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[Ecrofirt]

I have a 60GB HD, looking to add a second 120GB or 160GB. Never done this before, and was just wondering what brand I should go for. After looking around, it seems Western Digital has a fair amount of complaints, so I'm leaning towards Seagate.

Also, is newegg.com the best place to buy? I don't want to miss out on a sale or something that might be going on somewhere else. Any advice?

What kind of hard drive interface do you have?

I've got a brand new 160GB Seagate Barracuda ST3160023A that I've never used and am looking to sell.

It's a "7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive".

Here's the newegg link to the drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148025&ATT=Hard+Drives&CMP=KNC-goog13

I'll sell it to you for $70 + whatever the shipping charges end up being. I can't imagine they'd be very much, though.


edit:

DAMNIT! BAH.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I'll buy for 70 flat.

Is it OEM?

 

[Ecrofirt]

I'd really like to get my shipping costs covered. I'm going to be putting the money towards a SATA drive, so making a pure $70 will be much better than making $65 or so if I cover the shipping myself.

Also, I don't know if it's an OEM drive. I really don't know what OEM constitutes. I bought it last year from outpost.com via a thread here.

I'll tell you what it came with, though:
a Seagate Ultra ATA/100 Quick Installation Guide
A Seagate Install CD
The IDE cable, screws, and jumper

 

[blahness]

SEAGATE

 

[Particle Physicist]

I've had problems recently with WD

Got a 200Gb SATA drive. Dead after a month.

Replacement for that, dead after 11 months.

Got another replacement for the replacement, wouldn't be surprised if that stopped working too.

my WD 80 gig SATA drive just died on me. it was about 3 months old.

 

[Funky Papa]

I want to kill my 120 GB Maxtor. Noisy, slow and dowright junky.

 

[automagnus]

Maxtors and western digital are the two worst hard drive makers IMO

 

[Ecrofirt]

How important is 16MB cache?

The Dell tech just recently installed a replacement HD for me, and it's a 250MB Maxtor HDD with 160MB cache.

I'm looking into getting another HDD, and I'm down to deciding between a drive with 8MB cache and 16MB cache.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Maxtor = Avoid (hot, loud, fails)

Seagate = Great (quiet and cool)

Western Digital = Very Good (their form factos are slightly different, and can potentially cause you a headach if you plan to fit them in some enclosures. Recently had one that got little use, just outright stop working)

IBM and Samsung I tend to avoid because of their past reputations.

i really havent seen too many samsung hdd's out there these days just not as prevalent as the big 4. IBM no longer manufactures drives they sold that business to hitachi atleast for desktops these are very nice drives. I havent heard anything bad about maxtor either really, all of the big 4 suppliers seem to have reliable drives, but seagate i believe has the longest warranty, and im still using a 30gb seagate from 2k and its had no signs of breaking. Go for price per gig .

 

[DaCocoBrova]

If you own a Maxtor... Touch it. Listen to it.

Heat and noise play a major role for me, and any mechanical device's lifespan.

Maxtor is wack...for making the DiamondMax whatever the fuck model I had.

It's the only drive I've ever had (and I've had a lot) that failed outright with no warning whatsoever. I'll never buy another on principle alone.

Some models are better than others.

 

[beto]

my WD 80 gig SATA drive just died on me. it was about 3 months old.

My 80GB Maxtor SATA died couple days ago, Dell overnighted a refurbished WD, checked online tons of people had issues with those maxtor drives hopefully the WD replacement holds up. Shopping for a new Seagate now.

 

[Ecrofirt]

bumping for the busy evening crows.

Anyone know about my cache question?

And as it appears DaCoco doesn't want my drive, it's still up for sale.