How is this hard drive?

[Leros]

A recent power surge killed my electric range (thank god my microwave is ok) and one of my harddrives. I hate the downtime and want to buy a new drive locally if I can. That leaves me CompUSA, Best Buy and Circuit City.

I found this Maxtor Ultra SATA 100GB at CompUSA for $110. Text

Is that a sound product? Ive never had SATA anything before, so I'm not quite sure what to look for.

Oh and dont hassle me about a surge protector, I know I shouldve had one.

 

[CheesePoofs]

that would be a good hard drive, but here you can get a 160gb HD for $15 cheaper and you get free second day shipping. Thats a much better deal if you ask me. Worth the extra day or two of downtime IMO.

 

[Topweasel]

If your old drive wasn't SATA (if you see a two rows of 20 pins on the back it wasn't) then don't get a sata drive till your sure you have to ports on your mobo.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
that would be a good hard drive, but here you can get a 160gb HD for $15 cheaper and you get free second day shipping. Thats a much better deal if you ask me. Worth the extra day or two of downtime IMO.

Ive figured out with the weekend all that the harddrive woudl arrive thursday or friday of next week. Thats almost week total of downtime. Order would get processed monday, shipped tuesday, and judging from past shipments, arrive on Friday.

I really want a Seagate brand drive. I found the Barracude 7200.7 160GB SATA for $130 at Comp USA. Similar item for $94 shipped at NewEgg

 

[dnuggett]

I highly recommend Seagate followed by Hitachi Samsung and WD in no particular order after Seagate. I do not care for Maxtor, but that is my opinion.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
I highly recommend Seagate followed by Hitachi Samsung and WD in no particular order after Seagate. I do not care for Maxtor, but that is my opinion.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: dnuggett
I highly recommend Seagate followed by Hitachi Samsung and WD in no particular order after Seagate. I do not care for Maxtor, but that is my opinion.

Out of my 5 hard drives total I had hooked up yesterday when the storm hit: 4 of them were Seagate, the other was Western Digital. Guess which one died? Western Digital.

I bought the Western Digital to replace a Maxtor that died. Never had any problems with Seagate, which is why I must have that brand.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Compusa has a deal for a 160 gb PATA Seagate fo 40 dollars after MIR. (120 before) It ends today, and is avalible in-store.

 

[daniel1113]

That's not a bad product, but you can definitely find ~100GB SATA drives for less than that. Most 120GB SATA drives can be found for $85 or so.

As for the brand, I wouldn't worry about it. Maxtor has cleaned up its act over the past few years, and is just fine. Seagate drives do come with a five year warranty, but are generally a bit slower and more expensive. Maxtor, Western Digital, and Hitachi are all fine.

 

[albumleaf]

if you check deal forums you can get $160gb hdd's for close to free all the time AR. Seagate 200gb IDE was only $49.99 AR from Outpost a couple days ago... They also had a good SATA thread going on fatwallet for a while. I'd check there if time won't be an issue.. which it apparently will be.