Which ones of these is the best IDE drive???

[Maverick2002]

Ok, I need to which of these is the best drive:

this list

I was looking at the Western Digital 1200JB SE 8MB Cache 7200 RPM cause I heard they have like 10k rpm SCSI performance...

 

[LostHiWay]

The 8MB WD drives are really fast..but you pay extra for it. Maxtor's new ata133 drives at excellent also. I would however stay away from the IBM's

 

[GoodRevrnd]

WD's 80GB JB drive is quite speedy and costs the same as a Maxtor 133 80GB. You can get two of those for ~$30 than a single 120GB = RAID goodness.

 

[hudster]

well, are you definitely buying from this place, or was that just a good list to give us for reference? Because if you're not stuck buying from this place, check out the 80GB Maxtor drives this week at Staples. I picked up one last night at a Staples B&M store, and my final price for the drive after the $40 mail-in rebate will be $77.29!

For more info on this deal, check out this thread from the AT Hot Deals forum.

If you're looking for all out performance, go with the WD Special Edition (8mb cache). If you're looking for best-bang-for-your-buck, I'd go with the Maxtor deal that I mentioned above (I guess it's obvious that that's what I'd go with, since that's what I did go with last night! )


-hudster

 

[Pabster]

I've got to give the Maxtor D740X the edge, even over the WD 8MB. Maxtor has extracted incredible performance out of the D740X series (including some of the speediest seek times ever for an IDE drive) not to mention they are quieter, cheaper, and support ATA/133. Most people have no use for the latter, but if you've got the controller, there is a small performance boost associated with it. Last but not least, Maxtor's support and return policies are the best in the industry. Period.

 

[hudster]

by the way, in case it wasn't entirely clear, the Maxtors@Staples that I mentioned above, they are D740X's. And, if you hit it lucky, some people are reporting that some Staples still have some older inventory, and the older boxes for this drive actually include an ATA133 card.

The drive that I picked up last night has fluid-bearings (note: if you go to buy one at a store, if you look at the white sticker on the side of the Maxtor box, if you look right next to the barcode on that sticker, there will be a 4-character code. It seems that if the code is "L6L4" (like mine was), the drive has fluid bearings, and if the code is "J6L4", the drive has ball bearings.)


-hudster