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Seeking hard drive advice

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russr

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I'm in the market for a new hard drive and would like some advice. So far this is what I'm seeking
ATA100 compatile
>= 7200rpm
>= 20gb
high sustained transfer rate
fairly quiet
good price.

Are there any other things I should look for? Any advice is appreciate along with what brands I should go for, etc
 
Hi!

After some seeking (lots of reviews...) I decided to go with Maxtor Diamondmax - 30Gb - 7200 RPM - ATA100 - 2Mb cache- EIDE - <9 ms
seek time.
It has a very decent speed. I've tested it with TV TUnner capturing in uncompressed RGB. That have put more than 10Mb/sec sustained
write data on the disc. It didn't lost a frame in all the testings and captured in VDUB (multisegment capturing ) up to 6GB of data. Win98 -
UDMA enabled.

I use a Quantum 20Gb at work and I can clearly feel the difference between the 2. I wouldnt use the Quantum even if it came to me for
free..
The Maxtor is king right now.

The noise: it has a very thin high pitch noise due to the 7K rpm. It is bearable.

It has 3 year warantie too.

Cheers,
 
i agree completely with cookieman. i have bought several maxtors for several computers, and not had a single complaint about any.
 
the 75gxp has a very bad reputaiton on these boards for low reliability. i dont know if a conclusion has been reached on the 60gxp's, yet. they are generally considered faster, though.
 
low reliability as in what way? Do you not recommend them? I want a nice and fast drive to make good use of my ATA 100 controller.
 
Low reliability as in they will crash on you. My friend has had 5 IBM hard drives crash on him, and was forced to RMA them every time, which takes 2-3 weeks to receive a new one! Go with the Maxtor, stand clear from IBM. Even though I work for IBM, I won't support a poor product like that.
 
The IBM 60GXP is more reliable than the initial 75 GXP series. Having said tht, some ppl here seems to have IBM drive tht didn't last long. The IBM HDD r among the fastest thou.

I use to reccommend IBM (the 1 tht i've seen last 2.5 yrs & still going strong)...but now I think Maxtor or the Seagate Baracuda reckon some consideration.
 
I'm currently using an IBM 60GXP ATA 100 7200rpm 40 gb and it's great. It's fast and very quiet. Even with my case off you can hardly hear the hard drive. I've had it since July of this year. My brother also bought one and so far no complaints. I think Maxtor's are also good drives but I have had Maxtor's crash where I work so like IBM they're not perfect. They weren't the Maxtor Diamondmax's though so I can't say how good or bad those are. One thing I would say is stay away from Quantum. In the pc's I've worked on Quantum's seem to crap out the most.
 
I have had my IBM 75 GXP 45GB since december of last year............no problems as of yet. My next choice would be Seagate then WD



Jen
 
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