Can anyone recommend a ATA 100, 7200RPM HDD?

[holdencommodore]

I am looking for a HDD around 30 GB that is ATA 100 and 7200 RPM.

I have seen the Seagate ST330620A Barracuda ATA III drive.
I have also seen a Quantum 30GB ATA 100 7200RPM drive.
Which one will be the best?

Are there any other brands that you would recommend (Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung, Fujitsu, IBM, Western Digital etc)

Thanks.

 

[broadwayblue]

There seems to be a lot of people who think this would be your best bet:

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10252895&loc=1838

if you could find a $30 off coupon you would have yourself a great deal.

 

[shiner]

IBM cannot be beat! Maxtor is ok but they seem to die more often than any other drive I've ever owned or had experience with.

 

[bonkers325]

ibm 75gxp all the way

 

[jaeger66]

Buy.com had 30G IBM 75 GXPs for $126(after coupon) with free shipping. Great drive, insane price.

 

[osage]

IBM is the best right now. IMHO

 

[holdencommodore]

So in terms of performance, the IBM is the best?

How does the Seagate compare to the IBM?

Thanks for all the help!!

 

[CorporateSPY]

I am not a paticular fan of seagates. Infact, I advise aganst them.

 

[jaeger66]

Well, right now the IBM 75GXP has the fastest transfer rate, but the Quantum Fireball +LM has the fastest access time. Which is more important depends on what you're doing with it.

 

[Davegod75]

IBM or Maxtor..i'd go with IBM

 

[slvrbullet]

I just got an IBM 75 GXP. Awesome drive. Very fast and most of the websites put it at the top. Get the IBM. IMHO

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

Seagate or IBM is your best bet

 

[micron]

Western Digital.

 

[shawnmos]

I don't know what you guy are talking about. I have had Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, Fujitsu, Quantum, Toshibia(in my laptop), and Conner(now seagate) hard drives and the only one I have had die was my old 1GB Western Digital. And the only reason that died was because there was a power surge and it fried the circuit board causing it to no longer spin. That is it! I have never had a hard drive die on it's own. Even my Conner 170MB hard drive still works. I guess I'm just lucky but I really don't think you will have a problem with any hard drive you go with.

P.S. I forgot about my 40MB hard drive that came with my old 286. It kept developing bad sectors and made a screeching sound when it spun. But that thing lasted for 10 years so of course it would die eventually.

 

[gogeeta13]

IBM 75gxp all the way. If it isnt over your budget pick up 2 15gig 75gxp's and a Abit raid 0 controller(only 50 bux). The 15 gig ibms are on a single platter and each have 2 mb cache. That should run you around 250-275, but trust me loading windows in 3-4 seconds is quite cool.

 

[kerygma]

Go for it.

45 GB IBM 75GXP ATA100 7200 RPM: $146.00 S&H: $10.00 Total: $156.00

Just surfed for it yesterday, anyway. Best deal on the best HD technology out there right now, at http://www.sunsetmd.com/

Kerygma

 

[heng1028]

here you go IBM 75GXP

 

[pillage2001]

Both IBM and Quantum is good.

I have both on my system.

 

[illbot]

ibm gxp

 

[ZoSo]

I was thinking about getting the IBM but, where I work I see alot of them failing, about 75% of the systems using them. Currently I'm using a Quantum and haven't had a problem with it, and I see a hell of alot less Quantums failing at work. Also, we usually end up replacing the IBM drives with Quantums. Seen a low failure rate with the WD drives too, but we don't use them as much as the other drives, yet.

 

[holdencommodore]

It will come down to Seagate and IBM. But Fujitsu seems tempting toowww.fujitsu.com.au.
I can get the Seagate 30GB for $290 or the IBM 30GB for $330.

Which one would be more likely to last the longest and be the most relible.....
I also need something that is fairly quiet.

 

[NeuralChaos]

Jesus christ? aprx. 300 each?! Where the heck are you buying this overpriced crap?
My friend just bought a 45 gb ibm75gxp 7200/100 for 180 tax included!

Check out buy.com or Onvia. They got the 30 gb's for ALOT less then 300.

 

[holdencommodore]

Mate, don't live in America! I live in Australia!
That's why my I'm called holdencommodore (after my favorite car... the Holden Commodore!!)

The prices are in AUD! It's pretty cheap here!!

 

[holdencommodore]

Well, I got the IBM Deskstar 20GB 7200RPM, ATA 100 drive!
Thanks for the recomendations!! Works Great.............but...

The strangest thing happened when installing it though...
I set BIOS to boot A:/, C:/ then CD-ROM. Then f-disked and formated the drive using the Windows 98 SE bootup disk (selecting boot without CD-ROM support in the Startup menu to do this), after the format I restarted the computer.

Then when the startup menu came up, I selected boot with CD-ROM support.
It then loaded MSCDEX etc... but when it got upto 'Scanning PCI bus using Mechanism #2' it froze, with the A:/ drive light on, Ctrl+Alt+Del could be used.
I then had to load Command prompt and install the DOS CD-ROM drivers manually, which then let me install Windows 98SE Upgrade.

Does anyone know why this happened??