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which hdd to buy?

  • 05-11-2001 2:36pm
    #1
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I'm buying a comp (soon hopefully) at the moment it has a: Maxtor 40GB, Maxtor 4K040H2, UDMA100, 5400rpm hdd but I was thinkin of getin IBM 41GB UDMA100, IBM IC35L040, UDMA100, 7200 rpm instead, only £20 more.

    Is that a good / bad idea? Reliability, stability wise.


    Cheers :)


    P.s. these are the only two options...


Comments

  • #2
    strat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭strat


    Well after recently purchasing a nice quantum fireball 7,200 60gig beast - im well impressed. After having two previous 5,400 drives the new one is fruking flying - this thing 0wns. Games load WAY faster and making ISO's takes about half the time :)

    I'd spend the extra few bob and get the faster one :D

    [edit]
    IBM drives apearently 0wn and i have had probs with Maxtor reliability
    [/edit]


  • #3
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I thought i read somewhere alright that ibm were good, i think the majority of the hdds they buy at work are maxtor, not sure, what ever comes with compaqs these days n i know they're dire!


  • #4
    Snaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭Snaga


    I got myself a quantum fireball 40gb 7200rpm ata100 jobbie for 130 nicker from it direct.

    wowsers, the difference from a 5400rpm and udma66 is quite mad. w2k loads easily twice as fast.


  • #5
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Get the 7200 one, just make sure that you board can take UDMA 100, it'll still work, but will not run to full potential.


    John


  • #6
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    quantum are an extremely good make, they btw are now owned by maxtor

    i wouldnt by that model maxtor, they are extremely dodgy, i havent seen anybody with problem with the 7200rpm model.

    Id go for the ibm, in fact i did and i got 2


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  • #7
    tribble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    I have 2 IBM hard disk's - 1 x 30 gig 7200rpm udma 100 (1 year old) and 1x 60 gig 7200rpm udma 100 (one week old)

    the 30 gig is already reporting hard errors ( scandisk and ibm official software can't fix them ) and it makes a very loud scraping noise when trying to read the bad sectors.
    that said i haven't lost any data and no more errors have occoured since the first lot.
    only the other day i saw this

    http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/10/04/0050238.shtml

    (look at the links in the article)

    i have never had any hard disk failures before and i own c. 25 hard disks (from 20mg! (2x!!) > 60 gig) - except for one 20mg segate which died after it fell down the stairs (but not before i copied the data off it) - so this failure after 1 year has me worried...

    if you want preformance (though not reliability) choose IBM they are the fastest of any of my HD's


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