Seagate making worse low end hard disk models

[infini]

I intend to buy an 80gb ATA drive. My system is not very fast (Athlon XP 2100, 512MB and a maxtor diamond diamondmax plus 8 40GB. The use of hard disk is mostly for exctracting big rar file and iso imagesand copying large files. I was looking for seagate 7200.9 but to my surprise
in this page
http://www.seagate.com/products/details/0,,4,00.html
they dont have a 80 GB ATA hard drive with 8mb buffer!!! It is very strange that although the 7200.7 series had the 8mb buffer, the 80gb model has only 2! I will propably buy a WD or hitachi. Which of the two do you recommend?

 

[alimoalem]

WD. i have a hitachi and it's super load. not a bad drive so if you don't mind the sound, go for it

 

[Linflas]

Depending on how quickly you need the drive there are deals almost weekly drives where you can pick up a 160 MB for the price of the low end ones after a MIR. Watch the weekly Weekly Hard Drive Deals threads.

 

[infini]

Thanks for the link, but i live in greece so it is useless. I have read that older Hitachi/IBM models had serious reliability problems. Is this true with the new models?

 

[stevty2889]

I have a bunch of 80gb western digitals, and never had problems with any of them, and they tend to have good prices around 80gb as well.