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Best mainstream hard drives?

  • 11-01-2008 1:49pm
    #1
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    What are the best mainstream desktop hard drives these days, say in the 300GB+ category, 7200RPM+? I've had two Western Digital drives fail on me recently, despite good experiences in the past, so I think it's time to switch.

    adam


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  • #2
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    I have never had a complaint about Samsung t166 drives. Ive had a good few of them now and not one has failed or had any problems at all.


  • #3
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Seagate. 5 year warranty. GG.


  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Samsung and Seagate are very sweet, got 4 Sammy and one Seagate in my pc currently, apparent from the seagate being slightly noisier than the Samsungs, Its a good fast drive nevertheless, not have one failure out of those 2 brands...

    Nick

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  • #5
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    yoyo wrote: »
    Samsung and Seagate are very sweet, got 4 Sammy and one Seagate in my pc currently, apparent from the seagate being slightly noisier than the Samsungs, Its a good fast drive nevertheless, not have one failure out of those 2 brands...

    Nick

    Totally agree.


  • #6
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Ive lost a few seagates, so personally id never buy one again. Mind you they were in raid 10 on a media server. So its my fault i suppose "


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  • #7
    pcolan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭pcolan


    As it's been said already - Samsungs are the best, of course !

    Check out this Samsung 500GB S300 16MB 7200RPM from Dabs.ie for €103 delivered.


  • #8
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    pcolan wrote: »
    As it's been said already - Samsungs are the best, of course !

    Check out this Samsung 500GB S300 16MB 7200RPM from Dabs.ie for €103 delivered.

    I beg to differ, the new 7200.11 series seagates are, they got 32mb cache. Here (although incorrectly named on dabs)


  • #9
    pcolan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭pcolan


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    I beg to differ, the new 7200.11 series seagates are, they got 32mb cache. Here (although incorrectly named on dabs)

    Maybe, but what about the noise ?? ;)


  • #10
    Beelzebub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Beelzebub


    dahamsta wrote: »
    What are the best mainstream desktop hard drives these days, say in the 300GB+ category, 7200RPM+? I've had two Western Digital drives fail on me recently, despite good experiences in the past, so I think it's time to switch.

    adam

    Sorry to hear about your bad luck with WD.

    Personally I've never had problems with WD.

    I have had problems with the Samsung Spinpoint series, however so I'm not recommending them.
    Using WD5000ABYS at the moment:
    They are rated 24x7 though not supposed to be so good in RAID.

    The WD5000AAKS is supposed to be good in RAID though.


  • #11
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Got no complaints about Seagate drives here. From all of the positive feedback I think I'll be trying a Sammy next though.

    An older Seagate drive was defective from the start, but I put that down to how poorly it was packaged. (damn ebayers, you'd think they could put the inflated P&P costs towards packaging an item properly instead of just throwing it into a box with no padding)
    Thankfully Seagate's RMA process is fantastic, pretty much on a par with Apple's...


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  • #12
    Deliverance XXV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Deliverance XXV


    I have three WDC drives (2 INT, 1 EXT) and so far no problems.


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