Best Storage For My $$

[willbemcse]

I am looking for a sata hd comp has Hitachi 160 gb for $60 or seagate barracuda 250 gb for for 107. The difference here is the warrenty , hitachi offers 3 years vs seagate 5years.

I read the reviews of seagate and most of the users say that its kind of noisy , does anyone has the same issue.

 

[secretanchitman]

actually, my seagate 160GB 7200.7 is pretty quiet. 5 year warranty too. oh, so only warranty is the issue and not price/storage? i would go with seagate. i'd take 5 years over 3 anyday. but then again, i dont know how the hitachi drives perform (heard they were good also) as i have never had one.

 

[willbemcse]

Both warrenty and price/storage is the issue also. If I can get bigger storage for good deal, I will take that too, never had hitachi drives so dont know how they are compared to seagate.

 

[wpshooter]

If you are bothered by any noise that may be made by a Seagate drive over and above the other noise generated by your system and any background noise, you must have VERY sensitive hearing.

Get the Seagate, stands for quality & reliability.

 

[SGtheArtist]

I have Seagate 7200.7, Hitatchi 7K250 & Hitatchi T7K250. I have never had a problem with my seagates. I just recently got the Hitachi's and one of the 250GB 7K250's was DOA but the replacement & others have been good since.

These HDD are under light use (less than an average PC) so I dont know that my experience is indicative of the model.

I would recommend which ever HDD has the best $/GB as long as it is not Maxtor. I am not a fan of Maxtor because they hide data about their drives, specifically the number of platters the drives have. I personally think this is a critical peice of data the fewer platters the less noise & heat. I've never used Maxtor so this is just an opinion.