Recommend Me A Hard Drive! SATA

[Crism]

Hey guys I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a good hard drive. I'm upgrading my system for Christmas and I'd like to get rid of my RAID 0 config. I'm looking for a SATA, 7200RPM, 200GB+ hard drive. I hate Maxtor so don't even bother recommending them. I DO like WD, Seagate, and Samsung. I've got 3 WD hard drives now, my friend swears by Seagate, and I've got a Samsung 60GB 5400RPM in my laptop 🙂. I noticed that WD has a TON of different ones as does Seagate and I'm not sure which to pick. I'll be gaming a lot and installing games and programs like Photoshop on this hard drive as well.

Thanks!

 

[fixxxer0]

WD WD4000YR 400GB

 

[ribbon13]

The best SATA gaming drives are 400GB. Look at this review. THe Hitachi 500GB is the only drive faster (Raptors notwithstanding) but it jumps to $380 over the modest $200 prices of the WD4000KD / WD4000YR.

Storagereview doesn't include a lot of the 250GB models in thier testbed4

 

[Away]

I've used/tested many hard drives and I always end up with a Seagate in my own systems.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101567

Don't know your price range, but that is a good place to start.

 

[Wentelteefje]

Wooow, who hates Maxtor...? 😛

Western Digital WD4000YR too then...

 

[fire400]

whatever has NCQ there's no point in going for an HD without this useful technology on the drive, specially win ur spendin' that much

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
The best SATA gaming drives are 400GB. Look at this review. THe Hitachi 500GB is the only drive faster (Raptors notwithstanding) but it jumps to $380 over the modest $200 prices of the WD4000KD / WD4000YR.

Storagereview doesn't include a lot of the 250GB models in thier testbed4

What is the difference between the two WD drives? I may want to pick one of these but the few $ difference is strange

 

[Crism]

What exactly does NCQ do besides hinder the performance?

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: Crism
What exactly does NCQ do besides hinder the performance?

Improves I/O for simultaneous access in server enviroments. Completely uselss to desktop users.

Originally posted by: Spike
What is the difference between the two WD drives? I may want to pick one of these but the few $ difference is strange

YR has 2-year longer warranty, 16 hours more burn in, and stops trying error-recovery after 7 seconds because its meant for use in fault tolerant RAID arrays.