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Maxtor? IBM? WesternDigital.. which hdd are we supposed to buy these days?

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WD - Extremely fast (the SE drives), decent noise level, pretty reliable, sort of expensive
Seagate - Pretty fast, completely silent, very reliable, pretty inexpensive
Maxtor - Pretty fast, decent noise level, pretty reliable, inexpensive
IBM - Make backups daily or lose everything
 
BChico said:
There were alot of problems with the 75gxp series, but that has been resolved with the 120gxps.
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Where did you read that?
BTW, I've had a 120GXP since Jan. No problems. Sometimes I miss behing able to hear my HDD activity.
 
Originally posted by: rimshaker
8mb of cache can do wonders!! Maybe not on every read/write you do, but it definitely gives immediate performance than say, an ata/133 drive or a raid 0 setup.
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I have a 2WD120JB set up in RAID0. I got to say that it hashes really quick.
 
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