Please HDD advice (seagate barracuda IV)

[extreme100]

does anyone has expirience with seagate barracuda IV 60GB HDD?
this HDD in 40GB size is suppose to be excelent (reliability, speed, noise), but for a
minor $ difference I can get 60 GB for my new system.
wouldn't like problems like I had with IBM 30GB (bad sectors).
thanks.

 

[Atlantean]

I have the 80 gig version, and so far no problems with it. It is a very reliable harddrive (I have only had it since august though), and it is quiet, and fast.

 

[ojai00]

I have the BarracudaIV 60GB, and it's amazingly quiet. As for reliability, I believe Seagate is one of the leaders in that category, but that's just my opinion. There's not that much of a price difference now between the 40GB and the 60GB. The last time I checked, the 60GB was selling for about $129 with free shipping at Newegg. Hope this helps.

 

[Duvie]

I have also heard generally good things about them, and to boot I seldom see ppl posting topics about them failing...

 

[MWink]

I have 2 40GB's and 1 80GB and they are all working perfectly. I really like these drives. I would recommend them to anyone. They are reasonably fast, ultra quiet, pretty cool running, and have that Sea Shield.

 

[Bozo Galora]

after total frustration with IBM's (75 and 60 GXP) I have gone all Seagate now. Havent seen a single
bad drive posting yet.

Why would it be more dangereous to buy a 60Gig rather than a 40?

 

[extreme100]

perhaps because of larger number of platters/more heat generated?
after 75gxp trouble i have to be caution
and thanks for your advices

 

[Davegod]

have to say im VERY happy about the barracuda IV 40gb i have here. i simply have never heard it at all (though proly couldnt hear a chainsaw above the cpu's HSF), also so quick!

a footnote though is i recall someone saying theyre not so great for RAID, but then again in the same post others disagreed so dunno

 

[Bozo Galora]

<< Why is my Seagate Barracuda IV so slow in RAID-0 configuration? >>



<< To paraphrase Seagate technical support, the Seagate is so fast that the RAID controller can't buffer the data quickly enough and so the disk has to read everything twice and hence runs much slower. So there you have it: the disk is so fast it is actually much slower. Seagate do not have a firmware fix at the present time as they claim they are waiting "for the rest of the industry to catch up". See this thread at Storage Review forums for more details. The problem has been reported on several different motherboard chipsets and several different RAID controllers. The problem is not specific to ABIT motherboards. Some people have reported success by putting the disks on separate IDE controllers. >>

http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=18926

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i'm about to see if the hipoint rocket raid 404 (ATA133) card is fast enough, as soon as it comes

 

[FishTankX]

I've got a freakishly weird problem. I've got a seagate Barracuda IV 40 gig and the BIOS says it's a 40 giger, I believe the harddrive sticker says it's a 40 giger, but when I partitioned the drive for 15/20/5 the first partition came up as 37 gig. the second one came up as 18. WTF? :Q I was like "Is this a 60 gig drive?" I'm using FAT32 and I was going to reformat it again but I don't want to go through that again and I really don't know what to think. Can anyone help me? What's the best course of action?