grrrrrrrr so many hard drives please help me chose one

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matteuk

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hi i got like £80 and i need a hard drive at about 250gb what would be the best hard drive to get perfomance wise and noise wise :confused:
thanks
 
If I recall correctly, and don't hate me if I'm wrong, the Samsung Spinpoint is the quietest one of the bunch. It is also a very good performer. You might want to look in that direction.
 
If you look hard enough you can probably get a WD Caviar 320GB SE, which is what I have, great drive, extremely quiet, had it 6 months and had no problems at all.

I bought it for £89 6 months ago so I suppose it should be within your budget now:)
 
SirKenin said:
For one, my experience with WD drives since 1999, encompassing several hundred of them, is that they are absolute garbage.

For another, no drive benefits to any degree with a cache over 512kb. You will notice no difference between 8MB and 16MB caches. That is a marketting gimmick. Please see the following article for more details.

http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~oscar/pape...earch="benchmark 8 mb buffer to 16 mb buffer"
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Ive had good luck with W/D, had the worst luck with Maxtor, out of the last 10 I tried had to send back 3. Out of the hundreds of W/Ds I ordered I think mabe over the years I have sent back 5 or 6
 
In the time I have been dealing with WD, I have RMAed over 30% of them. The only drive that has given me worse luck is Fujitsu. They are also complete crap in mission critical applications such as file servers. They just can't handle the load.

I gave up being a WD Authorized Reseller for that reason. I didn't need the headache. I simply refused to sell them unless the client wanted a Raptor or Caviar RE.
 
SirKenin said:
In the time I have been dealing with WD, I have RMAed over 30% of them. The only drive that has given me worse luck is Fujitsu. They are also complete crap in mission critical applications such as file servers. They just can't handle the load.

I gave up being a WD Authorized Reseller for that reason. I didn't need the headache. I simply refused to sell them unless the client wanted a Raptor or Caviar RE.
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I agree about Fujitsu, havent seem many in the last few years but used to have alot of people bring theres in with screwed Fujitsu Drives
 
core 2 duo e6600 2.44 ghz 4m l2
2gb gskill 800 mhz ram
2 x ati radion ati x1900 xt in crossfire
asus p5w delux dh
creative extream music sound card
but...no hard drive
 
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