Hard Drive Recommendations?

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mmerrill64

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I am new to this forum and planning on building a Home Entertainment PC. I haven't built a new PC in over 15 years and have narrowed down most of my hardware except for the harddrives. I am looking for something inexpensive, long term reliable and fast. The last PC I built was a 100Mhz P1, so technology has changed quite a bit and I have had to do alot of research to get back up to speed. These will be large drives and the largest drive I currently have is in an Old P4 system running an 8 year old Maxtor 80G!
What brand do you guys like/reccommend in the 500G to 1TB drives for this application?
Appreciate any info!:D
Of course these will be Sata drives run in a Raid configuration.
 
Seagate has had a few issues with their larger drives recently, although I believe they have worked it out now. Western Digital makes excellent drives, and I would highly recommend them.
 
Thanks much, was leaning towards the WD Black Caviars because they have good reviews on Newegg and Tigerdirect but I try to take distributor sight reviews with a grain of salt because they are somtimes used to b@#%& about poor service or the one in a thousand units that crapped out!
 
I bought 2 WD caviar blacks for a raid configuration about 4 months ago and had to rma 1 due to failure.
 
johnb35 said:
I bought 2 WD caviar blacks for a raid configuration about 4 months ago and had to rma 1 due to failure.
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There are always some bad drives in the batch, I've actually owned primarily Seagate drives and have had no failures. I haven't had any hard drive failures yet with multiple manufacturers so I guess I'm lucky, but I was just pointing out that Seagate has had some issues with their larger drives recently.
 
Ive had diffrent brands,Seagate,Western Digital,Maxtor,Samsung.

Out of all id highly recommend Seagate...ive had a WD 400Gb fail on me,a 1TB Samsung too.

Ive owned two seagates...one is over 6 years old (IDE) and both still runs perfectly fine.
 
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I go for single platter.....I notice on average a higher fail rate (reviews wise) with 1TB drives then .12 500GB seagate drives.
This could be because of how some drives are shipped. The one in my sig I have 4 of now for personal storage. I used them on my parents PCs and my grandparents computer.
After having multiple platter drives fail on me like clock work this drive has proven to be fast...quiet..cool and is going on 1 year strong so far. So it has my recommendation.
 
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