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Shopping for a 250gb (or larger) HD

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ruler

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Hi, everybody.

I'm in desperate need of more storage space here, for I deal heavily with audio and video recording, processing and archiving. I need a drive that's reasonably fast, but what matters the most to me is definitely reliability and quietness (i HATE really loud/intensively trembling drives).

A couple weeks ago I bought a 250 gb "quiet drive" PATA western digital drive. The damn thing worked fine for a few hours, but right after I transfered the first couple gigabytes of data to it (sigh) I started hearing that clicking sound of death, and voilà: it was dead indeed.

I got a refund, but I'm now left with the question: should I go for another WD drive, or should I aim at another brand? Maxtor, perhaps? Or should I go for an external solution, if those are quiet/reliable enough?

Any thoughts on the subject will be greatly appreciated..

Thanks a lot.
 
Wd is crap now imo...... I just lost 2 of my drives both to clicking sound of death drq timeout error blah blah blah... 1 was 120 gig that i got from rmaing drive that died like 6 months ago. First time my 80 gig drive got this problem. You should probly try maxtor. Thats 3 drives from wd that I rmaed
 
I would not go for an external if you are doing audio and vidoe editing on the drive. Try a seagate. 200gb used to be the largest they offered, but they just released a 300gb and a 400gb although they are expensive. If you can live with only 200gb it is a great drive. I have 3 of them. 5 year warranty.
 
The Hitachis are good now. Will be 100x better than your DOA WD. Plus it will be just as fast as all the other drives. They are a good deal, a week ago you could get them go 130.00 a piece!

 
Just buy a couple Seagate 160's... 160 is the best price/performance around, and the drives are quiet, relatively fast, and reliable.

:thumbsup:
 
I suppose I should mention that the Seagate actually is true Serial ATA without an adaptive chip. People spout off about how this makes it faster but the difference is probably negligible if any. You'd never notice.

Both are great drives buy on what size you need and price.



Edit: Oh and the Seagate 200gb is 180gigs and the Hitachi 250gb is 232gigs
 
I agree that buying a couple smaller Seagate drives would be the perfect solution.

Problem is, I already have two 200 gb WD's on this machine. So I only have room for a single extra drive, and that's why I need it to be as large as can be -- that is, the largest I can get for a reasonable price.

I just wish Seagate made 250 gb barracudas...

 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
Just buy a couple Seagate 160's... 160 is the best price/performance around, and the drives are quiet, relatively fast, and reliable.

:thumbsup:
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Seagats have the 5 year warantee :thumbsup:

Also, bestbuy has them for 60$ after rebate (the 160GB ones)
 
Hmmm...this is making me reconsider buying the three 250 GB Western Digital S/ATA drives that I wanted to configure my new system with. Alternative???
 
Even if the Hitachi is reliable, their RMA process still sucks. No way should you have to wait a month to get a drive replaced.
 
Maxline III or Diamondmax 10 at 300GB - very fast drives. Almost as fast as Raptor 10k, see review on AT.
 
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