Advice on a new hard drive

[jcs1987]

Hi guys

Could you give me some suggestions on a new hard drive for my dad. To replace a slow 20Gb Seagate IDE drive. I usually buy maxtor drives but every single drive i've used has failed in one way or another. We also can't use Western Digital for some reason they aren't compatible with the motherboard. We are looking around the 80Gb mark. Any suggestions on a good drive?

 

[jcs1987]

The drive will be IDE. As the motherboard doesn't handle SATA very well imo. I was looking at the seagate drive but wasnt too sure. I'm aslo not sure if it can handle a high capacity drive as i've only ever used 40 or 80 GB drives on it. I know it currently has a 250GB external hard drive but that is an entirely different device altogether.