Whats the best Hard-Drive in the market???

[rash219]

Whats the best hard drive in the market apart from the raptor that is great for storage in terms of longrun.....currently i have the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 250-GB Hard Drive.....i am just looking for something better between the price range of 0~120.

 

[Rottie]

Stay away from Seagate 400GB hard drive if possible I had two 400GB hard drives died on me within 5 months but good thing they have 5 years warranty and Seagate decied to give me new 750GB hard drive anyway.

 

[rash219]

they gave you a 750GB hard drive instead of 2 X 400GB drive...O_O...wow

thanks i will keeep that in mind...

 

[Sheninat0r]

Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ - one terabyte, 7200RPM, 32MB cache, and 3 x 334GB platters (!!!!)

It's cool, quiet, and fast... sustained reads/writes are above 100MB/s

 

[Zepper]

Probably the Seagate Cheetah 15k.5 300GB SCSI for raw performance (135 MB/sec max sequential read, about 110 MB/sec average). Can't get over 300GB per drive in SCSI yet but you can put up to 15 of them per channel... But for day-in/day-out overall single user it would probably be either the latest Maxtor Atlas 15k II or the Fujitsu MAU series, but the biggest in those is only about 150GB... Both shade the Seagate badly in gaming and office simulation testing.

.bh.

 

[Rottie]

SCSI hard drives are not selling very much than SATA II and Raptor is faster than SCSI hard drive right? No?

 

[Zepper]

The Raptor is still the best for the money for the single user, but there is the capacity limitation of only 150GB - PMR?

.bh.

 

[Canai]

I like WD's enterprise line of 500Gb drives. I just got one, and it's formatting right now

I think it's the ABYS or something along those lines.

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Probably the Seagate Cheetah 15k.5 300GB SCSI for raw performance (135 MB/sec max sequential read, about 110 MB/sec average). Can't get over 300GB per drive in SCSI yet but you can put up to 15 of them per channel... But for day-in/day-out overall single user it would probably be either the latest Maxtor Atlas 15k II or the Fujitsu MAU series, but the biggest in those is only about 150GB... Both shade the Seagate badly in gaming and office simulation testing.

.bh.

I would consider those if 1)I had enough $$$ to disregard cents/gig 2) I had my computer at an acoustically sealed/isolated location.

Otherwise, my reading on SPCR forums leads to the new samsung drives offering fantastic performance with the lowest noise (note: you need some kind of dampening as vibration is worst of the pack. I happen to have antec solo which works perfect). Otherwise hitachis are runner up in terms of performance with low noise when the noise reduction feature is enabled. WD's AAKS lineup is a good balance between speed and idle noise, albeit a bit louder (but less rattle) than the samsungs. Seagate seems to be the absolute worst bet apart from their almighty warranty. Funny, I remember how samsung used to depend solely on their warranty to sell any of their hdds a decade ago.. Tables surely have turned now

 

[nerp]

I love my raptor as a system/game install drive. It rips and I like the grinding sound -- like it's angry.

Just plopped a Samsung spinpoint 500GB HD501LJ SATA and it sure is nice and quiet! Pretty darned zippy.

The Samsung was bought to join a 320GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.10 I got about a year ago. The Seagate is noticably louder than the Samsung but has still been a great drive for me.

I think I'm going to get me another Spinpoint, perhaps the 750GB version or maybe the 1TB version. All this cheap storage is getting addictive!

 

[Banderon]

for the price range you mentioned, with speed being the primary issue, the largest you'll be able to get is 500GB. Samsung's 500GB variant of the SpinPoint F1 is the fastest drive you can get, with average transfer rates around 90MB/s, and peaks at over 115MB/s. after that, the next best choice is the Seagate's 7200.11 500GB drive. They are about 10MB/s slower than the Samsungs, but are much cheaper and easier to find, and is what i'd go with based on your budget.

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: Banderon
for the price range you mentioned, with speed being the primary issue, the largest you'll be able to get is 500GB. Samsung's 500GB variant of the SpinPoint F1 is the fastest drive you can get, with average transfer rates around 90MB/s, and peaks at over 115MB/s. after that, the next best choice is the Seagate's 7200.11 500GB drive. They are about 10MB/s slower than the Samsungs, but are much cheaper and easier to find, and is what i'd go with based on your budget.

I would value avg seek time over transfer rates for every day use. Both hitachi and WD look better than seagate in that regard (not to mention seagate is by far the loudest of the bunch, though you said speed being the primary issue)

 

[TheOtherRizzo]

I've always bought Seagate because of the 5 year warranty. But they are the only ones that don't enable AAM and the noise is getting on my nerves bigtime.