Lately my Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 hard drive went kablewy!!!

I figured to avoid this problem, I am going to have to spend more than the bare minimum and buy a different brand of hard drive. Which hard drive is the best for the money?

Im looking for something around 120G SATA, possibly SATA2 if my computer will handle it. Most likely will.

Thanks

 

i actually love seagate, simply for the fact they have a 5 year warranty, and i seem to average 2 years on a hd before killing it mysteriously.

i love my raptor, though i have not had it long.

ive used them all, installed them all, i liked wd for a long time, but im on my 7th hd from them in 2 years... so i stopped liking them, even tho the RMA process is easy.

i run a seagate 60 gig notebook hd in my 'runner, so far no problems, then again its been there for an entire week

 

Chevy!

No! Wait! Ford!

er, wrong arguement.

(Frankly, I've had a lot of good fortune with Western Digital, but I think it's all about the same these days.)

 

I only buy Seagates.
In my current home build I have two.
One SATA one PATA.

Have had Western Digital and Maxtor, still do in my old PC, but will only buy Seagate from now on.

 

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I prefer Seagate but for 60 bucks, how can you go wrong?

 

This hard drive lasted almost exactly 1 year now that I think about it. I should look into this 5 year warranty. Maybe I might be able to get a free one!

Its good to hear everyone likes seagate. Where I come from, they are the most inexpensive hard drive to get.

 

seagate and maxtor are my two fav's.....ibm is a close third.

 

What is PATA? Since I have to start from scratch, is it worth RAID'ing hard drives together?

 

Been building pc's a long time, and tried every brand at least once. Never had a failure ever actually. Used seagate, western digital, and maxtor..

I think it boils down to having proper cooling in your case-off the shelf pc's lack in this area greatly and cleaningout the tower of dust every month.

 

PATA is the old hard drives before SATA came to be.

PATA = ribbon cable

SATA = thin red cable
SATA transfers faster.

 

ahhh, i just called them IDE hard drives. I have one of those too, that thankfully had a backup of everything important on the computer. Does anyone have experiance with RAID. I hope im calling it right, its been a while.

 

My Seagate is connected with EIDE and causes problems with my motherboard. But other than that it works. I like Maxtor the best though, I still have one from a couple years ago.

 

I actually just turned my 8yr old dell into a file server, with a pair of 320gb drives mirrored with raid1. I used linux & software raid control, but it setup really quick & easy. It's only been a couple weeks, I'll have to see how it goes.

I jsut got sick of trying to recover pictures & home movies off pc's that needed to be reimaged, or drives that windows refused to recognize. Now I just need to get all our data organized on there.

 

P is considered parallel, where as S is serial...

FWIW, i though seagate was a "brand" name hard drive maker...

 

only if you need a gigantic disk "appear" to the o/s.

such as you need a 1 tb single drive (so you raid 4 250gb drives, or 2 500gb, etc).

as for speed, i guess everyone wants a faster disk throughput. and that's what raid 3-5 will do... striping...

but then, dont forget the negatives with striping. if 1 drive dies, you cant recover as easy (if not impossible) as a single drive or raid 0 (mirroring)

 

The best maker of Hard Drives is Western Digital. Their machines are built like rocks, they will probably outlast your current computer setup. The downside of the Western Digital hard drives is after a while, when the bearings get worn in, they will be louder. Not ridiculously loud but it will have a noticeable humm.

I am a noise freak when it comes to my computer so I got rid of the Western Digitals (currently in my new media center PC/Server), and am currently working with Seagates. The Seagates are quiet, but not as performance heavy as the western digitals (benchmark tests). I have had the seagates for about 2 years now and they work for me.

 

I like Western Digital. I've never had one die on me. I've used them in Linux servers that were on 24/7 for years and never had one problem.

Western Digital

 

I vote for WD have 4 of them in my computer one in my wifes computer and two others sitting on my desk looking for a home. had any problem with them cant say the same for maxtor though.......

 

Western Digital.

Seagate second.

Used to love maxtor, until we experienced a HUGE recall on their 40gb drives. We had one failing every day for almost a year. What a nightmare, they had a bad bearing design which overheated and would jam. I still have one fail occasionally that we did not find during the recall.

 

I love my raptor.

but any SATA drive is better than ATA drive.... i can "feel" the diffrence.