HELP!!!!!
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
I don't see any reason to choose based on brand. I'd get the Seagate because it's 7200.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I don't see any reason to choose based on brand. I'd get the Seagate because it's 7200.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
I don't see any reason to choose based on brand. I'd get the Seagate because it's 7200.
They're all 7200rpm. Few years ago WD had a few batches of bodgy IDE drives and I know a few people here have sworn off Maxtor due to something similar. I've never had a HDD go on me and haven't owned anything in the SATA II range, so thought I would ask if anyone who has used SATA II had any reason for choosing one over the other.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Christian Graus wrote:
I don't see any reason to choose based on brand. I'd get the Seagate because it's 7200.
They're all 7200rpm. Few years ago WD had a few batches of bodgy IDE drives and I know a few people here have sworn off Maxtor due to something similar. I've never had a HDD go on me and haven't owned anything in the SATA II range, so thought I would ask if anyone who has used SATA II had any reason for choosing one over the other.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Any manufacturer will have a product go bad here and there. The real question is, how did they respond to a warranty claim ? I love Samsung stuff now precisely because my LCD died, and they were amazing at shipping me another right away.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
WD or Seagate. But if the WD are 5400 then go Seagate to get the 7200. The difference is noticeable.
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
It is a bit of a case of 6 of one, half dozen of the other They are all the same specs. I have never had a Seagate die on me, whereas I have had both Maxtor and WD issues. However, I havnt had any issue getting them replaced (on the ones still in warranty) however, I still lost my info. But as it has already been said, ever brand will have parts die, but if it was me, I would spend the extra few $$'s to get the more reliable of them
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WD or Seagate. But if the WD are 5400 then go Seagate to get the 7200. The difference is noticeable.
code-frog wrote:
WD or Seagate. But if the WD are 5400 then go Seagate to get the 7200. The difference is noticeable.
They're all 7200. Didn't think they made anything in 5400 anymore that wasn't for a laptop.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
At home and at work I get only seagates now because they have a 5 year warrantee while the others are 1 to 3. Also the 7200.11 is the new model with a higher STR than the others.
John
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Assuming that you will be developing using this new computer then i would advise going for an even faster hard disk i.e. 10,000 rpm. There is a huge amount of disk activity going on when you load, save, search etc big projects and it will be the hard disk that is the bottleneck. obviously this might be out of your price range and i realise that it is not on your short list but i thought it worth mentioning... ;P
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code-frog wrote:
WD or Seagate. But if the WD are 5400 then go Seagate to get the 7200. The difference is noticeable.
They're all 7200. Didn't think they made anything in 5400 anymore that wasn't for a laptop.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Didn't think they made anything in 5400 anymore that wasn't for a laptop.
hybrid drives, flash-ram plus slow hard-drive, cool, quiet, faster cached access, slower long-term stream.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I've just caught myself whistling "We're off to see the wizard...", I must be losing it bigtime. Fixing that now with a good dose of Arizonian rock, Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments. So anyway, on to the real question, been buying all the parts required to build my new computer over the past few weeks. Last purchase is being made in the next couple of hours, 2 x 500GB SATA II HDD's, question is which brand I should get. This isn't an open ended question where you get to tell me what your favourite is, I have three to choose from in my budget and available from the where I'm going. So give me your opinion on the following choices. AUD$129.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB AUD$139.00 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 16MB 500GB AUD$147.00 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 16MB 500GB
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
We buy nothing but Seagates, not because of price, partially because of 5 year warranty, but mostly due to warranty servicing. We've had very good luck at work with warranty work, and although I have had success replacing a WD at home, they like to drag out the process much longer than Seagate does. Or maybe Seagate jumps because we have big guns, and at home I do not... hmmmm....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)