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Kekewy

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It's been a good long while since I've purchased a new hard drive. When I bought my last one 250 gigs was huge and Maxtor, WD, and Seagate were the 'big three' so to speak. My current drive is a maxtor 250 gig IDE drive, which has done me well for several years. I rebuilt my system and now am looking for a sata drive. To tell you how old this drive is when I first bought it, the general consenus in the computing world was not to go with the sata drives because the connectors broke too easily and there wasn't enough speed increase to warrent the hassle.
Now, there's a lot more brands of drives and Maxtor is no longer a good one. So, I'm wondering which ones are? Seagate and WD are still good from what I've heard. I'm not sure about Samsung and Hitachi, though. Reviews look decent, but those generally don't mean much.
 
WD and Seagate are both excellent and are the largest manufacturers. I don't think I've had Hitachi and Samsung HDDs, but they seem pretty decent. I never regarded Maxtor very highly, but it was bought out by Seagate.
 
I was looking at the WD caviar Blue or Black. From people's signatures the Black edition seems to be more popular, but the blue one looks good as well. I'm not too sure which to go with.
 
Seagate swallowed Maxtor. WD has proven to be a well run company. They're still around and if not at the top are hovering near the top. I remember my 1st HDD from them 20 years ago that still works today! IBM spunoff as Hitachi. And Samsung was twisting the Raptor's shirt with their F series a few years ago.

I believe the original Samsung F1 still has the one of the fastest access times for a 7200 drive and is still benches 85% as fast as current drives. Depending on how much money you'll be spending, SSDs are now a viable option in the $125 range... $2 per gig is a good price.

I think you'll enjoy the jump to SSDs most.
 
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