best hard drive -- what would you suggest?

[Quad]

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what's your reccomendation for a good quality hd, with a good size, good speed, and good price

 

[Noriaki]

IBM 75GXP or Maxtor Diamond Max +45

Personally I use the IBM 75GXP, and in my experience this drive deserves every ounce of it's good rep. I in fact have two (not RAIDed just liked the first enough to buy a 2nd). I use the 30Gig and 45Gig varities. They are also available in 15,20,60 and 75 gig sizes. I think the 45 is the best deal, and is adequate size for most users.

I've never personally used the DMax+45, but Maxtor makes excellent hard drives.

 

[GTaudiophile]

IBM Deskstar 45GB 7200rpm GXP. You can get it for like $150 shipped at www.mwave.com.

 

[NoreagaCNN]

Any IBM 75GXP or any Western Digital HD

-Nore

 

[divinemartyr]

You're about to get a million replies on this thread, but just buy the one you can find at the best price, which best meets your needs. All of the major manufacturers make good drives.

Storage Review will give you some good performance tests to help you make your decision as well. I chose the Quantum Fireball Plus LM. I picked up a 30gb drive for $87 shipped about 3 months ago, couldn't pass up the deal as the IBM drives were almost double the price at the time. The IBM is certainly the fastest drive available, but not always the cheapest. It is also one of the quietest. I sacrificed a bit by getting the Quantum which is a slightly louder drive.

dm

 

[bacillus]

I vote IBM 75GXP 45Gb as well.

 

[NeonFlak]

I would suggest IBM, WD newer cavier driver, or Maxtor. In no specific order of course =) Never even think about or touch a fujitsu or samsung. They could pass a disease onto your comp or something =0

 

[Doggiedog]

Both my IBM 75GXP drives are flaking out on me (ie. Making strange clicking noises usually a prelude to a failure). I think there are alot of people here that can attest for the same thing happening to their drives too. Take your pick though.

FYI: The shutdown patch still didn't fix my problems.

 

[Oyeve]

Here we go again IBM

 

[HiroP]

I just bought 2 30GB Caviars 7200RPM from Best Buy on sale for $139 plus tax. In addition you get a rebate for a $25 Best Buy gift Certificate, so that puts the price at $114 assuming there's anything generic you need at BBY.

 

[gittyup]

Oh IBM or Maxtor in that order... mwave seems to have some decent prices on IBM OEM drives..

 

[nortexoid]

IBM 75GXP for performance, Futjisu MPF for quietness...

i also found the maxtor's excellent for tossing around and exchanging a la excellent warranty policy...futjisu offers a comparable one - i assume many others do too...

WD now has 30GB platter hdds that might be faster than the 75GXP, however, i'm not sure.

 

[*kjm]

Segate 15k rpm SCSI is the best

 

[maxcom]

divinemartyr, I'd love to find that deal, the LM is a nice drive

 

[LXi]

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60, the fastest 20GB platter 7200rpm hard drive.

 

[Mem]

IBM or Maxtor, any 7200rpm.

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[BigLance]

IBM 75GXP 7200 RPM ATA100 Series drives, have a 46GB as my primary drive. Fastest drive I have ever had. A lot of people seem to think IBM is the best overall, I agree !! I have had terrible experiances with Maxtor ! Done OK w/ Western Digital.

Go IBM !

 

[Fenix793]

Either the Maxtor DM+60 or the IBM 75GXP.

 

[mylam]

seagate 15000 rpm one

 

[Trader05]

Definitly Ibm 75GXP drives, but the new 60GXP are even better!

 

[DoctorBooze]

Definitely recommend IBM drives; my 34GXP 20GB (7200rpm UDMA/66, DPTA-372050) is damn quick and very quiet, and my (work) experience of 75GXP (15GB-75GB, UDMA/100) is good too. Generally I've found Maxtor good recently and Seagate good too if hot, but would steer well clear of WD (personal experience with them is VERY poor, over 10 years with several dozens of systems I've seen a failure on their drives every couple of months even though I've seen more systems with Seagate and IBM drives (0 and 1 failure, respectively, both including 300M and 500M discs still in service today, the latter single failure a 2G disc in a 7-disc RAID 4 years ago)).

Someone mentioned Quantum. I've not seen many but do sorely remember the time when their firmware corrupted data under Linux, OpenBSD (I think) and Solaris. Basically because WinXX didn't push the drives very hard, under WinXX the problem never showed up, but under several Unices people got corrupt data, and Quantum didn't acknowledge or fix the problem quickly. I think both their SCSI and IDE drives did it; I'm sorry I'm so vague right now. Since then I've only recommended Quantum in low-end Wintel boxes; their Bigfoot drives were seriously quiet a couple of years back so good for some desktops.

Of course that's just my 0.5c and I'm sure my experience has been quite different from others'.

 

[Quickfingerz]

for MOST (nearly all) users the Quantum LM drive is the fastest drive out there. Access time is more important than anything out there.
The Quantum is loud though so my pick would be the 75GXP.

The 75GXP isn't quiet though. It's quiet compared other 7200 rpm drive but you can still hear it spin from far away.

 

[maxcom]

beautiful noise

 

[jagr10]

I say Maxtor 81.9 gig is good. It's 5400rpm though. Maxtor has excellent tech support as does ibm.

 

[Wuming]

another vote for the ibm 75 gxp from a faithful ibm hdd fan.