Suggest a "good" hard drive
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I need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
Matt Philmon wrote:
So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer.
I like the 7200.9 series from Seagate. Sata II, NCQ, long warranty.... We have several sizes at work, from 160gb to 500gb. I am looking forward to adding the 7200.10 at work (I have one 7200.9 500gb at home, that's enough for me there). I highly recommend them. _________________________ 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 need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
Something seems odd to me here. Western Digitals have always been great for me and all my clients. If I were you I might have your motherboard, cables, controllers checked. You might be cooking drives with a system problem. - Rex
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I need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
I agree with the above recommendations. I'm using a Seagate 7200.8 200GB SATA drive and it's been great. I did run into problems with NCQ at boot time, but I understand that's more an XP problem (turning it off eliminated the errors from the event log and seemed to have no impact on performance.) I'd also check the ventilation of your system. Most the drive failures I've had were clearly heat related. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Something seems odd to me here. Western Digitals have always been great for me and all my clients. If I were you I might have your motherboard, cables, controllers checked. You might be cooking drives with a system problem. - Rex
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code-frog wrote:
Western Digitals have always been great for me and all my clients.
code-frog wrote:
You might be cooking drives with a system problem.
I concur. (What are the voltages from the powersupply?) I have 2 of the 160 SATA WD drives (one about 2 years old the other about 4 months) and both are running fine. Along with a few dozen IDE's of various sizes. "Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace.” (Ronald Reagan)
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Something seems odd to me here. Western Digitals have always been great for me and all my clients. If I were you I might have your motherboard, cables, controllers checked. You might be cooking drives with a system problem. - Rex
The enemy's gate is down.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
code-frog wrote:
Something seems odd to me here. Western Digitals have always been great for me and all my clients.
I think it comes down to what you buy from WD. I have had good and bad results with WD. I abuse drives, I will admit it, massive read/write streams take their toll. Almost every drive I have owned with only a few exceptions have failed near the end of the warrenty period. If you buy a cheap WD, with a 1 year warrenty, I have had them fail anywhere from 9 months to 15 months from purchase time. Right now I have 3 raptors, and a few other drives, all WD and only one Seagate at home. Work only buys Seagate except for the few Raptors we have there, so I can't use its example. But the higher quality drives from WD have been much better overall. I guess it is the you get what you look for... if you buy cheap, you get cheap, and you don't know how long it sat dry and still at a warehouse. _________________________ 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 need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
Samsung. awesome drives, run almost silently, great to have in a RAID
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I need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
Based on personal experience, I'd just recommend against Maxtor. X| Every Maxtor drive (3) I've ever had has failed, and every drive that has ever failed on me (3) has been a Maxtor. They had great RMA support, but that really doesn't make up for lost data IMHO. I'd agree with the Samsung recommendation. I have 5 (4 SATA, 1 PATA), and they're all doing just what they should. -- I've killed again, haven't I?
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I need a new Serial ATA 7200 RPM "large-ish" (160GB or more) hard drive. I've been a huge fan of Western Digital for many years but the 160GB Serial ATA Western Digital drive I purchased only 3 months ago has now failed... the one I bought to replace my 160GB SATA Western Digital drive I had originally purchased for my "new" machine about 1.5 years ago. So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer. So, what would you all recommend? I'm comfortable going up to about 300GB. I'm also interested in looking into setting up a NAS configuration with RAID for backup purposes.
Couldn't resist up rereading your opener. hehehehehe
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Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
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Matt Philmon wrote:
So, a newer version of the same Western Digital drive has now failed me twice and I gotta say I just don't trust WD any longer.
I like the 7200.9 series from Seagate. Sata II, NCQ, long warranty.... We have several sizes at work, from 160gb to 500gb. I am looking forward to adding the 7200.10 at work (I have one 7200.9 500gb at home, that's enough for me there). I highly recommend them. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I've got to agree with going with Seagate. My last harddrive, a pata Maxtor would always get alzheimers and drop it's data. I finally realized that it was heat related but with my new case and it's 120 mm fan blowing DIRECTLY on the harddrive, it shouldn't get too hot. :~ Well, the Seagate Sata has been humming along so well that I got it a friend to keep it from being lonely. If you go over to Newegg.com, they have a 300 gigger for $110 US with no charge for shipping. I can't wait to fill it with... um... something. I'll figure out what to fill it with later.
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Based on personal experience, I'd just recommend against Maxtor. X| Every Maxtor drive (3) I've ever had has failed, and every drive that has ever failed on me (3) has been a Maxtor. They had great RMA support, but that really doesn't make up for lost data IMHO. I'd agree with the Samsung recommendation. I have 5 (4 SATA, 1 PATA), and they're all doing just what they should. -- I've killed again, haven't I?
Office Lineman wrote:
I'd just recommend against Maxtor.
I'd second it. The quality of Maxtor HDDs is poor. I'd bought one some time ago and never have come to this brandname again.
Maxwell Chen