Which is the best HDD brand?

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chibicitiberiu

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I'm now using a Samsung 160 GB hard drive, but it is poor in quality and works pretty slow. Can anyone recommend a brand with at least 160 GB (as much as I already have) and very good quality? I prefer a 10 000 rpm one (rare, but fast) , but 7200 rpm is also good.

For me, good quality means that it won't need formatting to many times because I don't have any other hdd or blueray drive or anything that can hold that much data I have on my pc, so it is very hard to back it all up on dvds.
My actual hard drive is partitioned in two drives (C: - 50GB and D:-100 GB) and the D: drive was never formatted since i first partitioned it (about 2-3 years ago). It may have problems, but I can't format it: I can't just erase everything i have, i must save it.

So what would be the best one for me? I'm not looking to buy one yet, but just need a very good brand/hard drive and I may look after it in stores in my city.
 
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well the Western Digital VelociRaptor's are currently one of the quickest 10,000rpm hard drives at the min-getting good reviews
 
That is a very good one, it can run speeds of 3 GB/s (that's crazy), but too expensive for my budget. At that cost I could get a brand new computer (not very powerful one but better than my actual one :D). It's about 300-400 bucks.
 
yes but you are going for the 300gig!!

you could get the 150gig cheaper-or do as i have i got the 74gig raptor as my c drive then a 500gig secondary!
 
You could go for a seagate barracuda 500gb, the one with the 32mb cache, its faster than the original raptor in most things except seek times, and in the us is around $80.
 
I looked on the Seagate's website and..yep, i guess they are pretty reliable.
I will look in the future for prices, to see which one is the best.

I also looked on the Samsung website under hard drives and look here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/type/type.do?group=computersperipherals&type=harddiskdrives
I don't know how long that ad is going to stay there, but it's pretty funny:
[size=+1]Imagine perfect PC environment[/size]
hard disk drive, SpinPoint P series
Expectation, and beyond. SpinPoint P series! Enjoy, with noise to the maximum of 250 GB capacity
Click to expand...
So it's clear that is a really bad hdd, so it really needs a change. (I don't have it from that series, but it's samsung)

But what about the WD Caviar HDDs, are they good?
 
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