Best 500GB HD Under £100

JoeBoi · 1 Apr 2007 at 12:27

Which of these two hard drives are the best for under £100

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache

or

Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

Anyother suggestions welcome

Cheers JoeBoi

mcc49 · 1 Apr 2007 at 12:51

WD AAKS or you can try the seagate 7200.10 500gb and hope for the silent motor. Both uses the newer perpendicular recording technology afaik

Danger Phoenix · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:08

I am also interested in buying a 500GB, so more replies to this thread would be useful please

LewisStuart · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:28

mcc49 said:
Both uses the newer perpendicular recording technology afaik

Oh, I thought this was Seagate's own technology.

Danger Phoenix · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:40

I have just had a quick read on the WD Drive, and I don't believe it uses perpendicular technology...

Hxc · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:41

AAKS WDs do.

Danger Phoenix · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:45

Hxc said:
AAKS WDs do.

Oh, either the website was wrong or I misread

Anyways, I am going to be buying 2 x WD 500GB in the next week or so

-Nick- · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:17

ok so WD or Seagate?

which ones are:
quieter?
cooler?
faster?

Danger Phoenix · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:23

I think the WDs are quieter and cooler... not sure about faster, so will leave someone else to confirm that

Nick1881 · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:12

Im in the same boat, filled my Seagate 320gb already.

I was gonna go for another Seagate as this 320gb is great, but now worried about noisy motor comments, have i been lucky with this one?

Baddass · 1 Apr 2007 at 19:43

mcc49 said:
WD AAKS or you can try the seagate 7200.10 500gb and hope for the silent motor. Both uses the newer perpendicular recording technology afaik

can someone elaborate on the "silent motor" statement here?

also, any further suggestions as i'm looking for a large 500Gb or so HD but it must be as quiet as possible?

thanks

killer_uk · 1 Apr 2007 at 21:25

Baddass said:
can someone elaborate on the "silent motor" statement here?

also, any further suggestions as i'm looking for a large 500Gb or so HD but it must be as quiet as possible?

thanks

I believe he's on about the two types of motors you can get with the seagates. There is a quiet one (usually indicated by pink glue I think?) and theres a louder one. Luck of the draw as to which one you get.

There is a big thread on it here

:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17650340

Baddass · 1 Apr 2007 at 21:57

thanks mate

Will_3rd · 1 Apr 2007 at 22:02

bought myself a 500GB Seagate the other day very good so far IMO, has pink glue on it

only can hear it when it is doing really intense seeking

aceface57 · 2 Apr 2007 at 19:10

Is there any suggestions for big Hdd's on ide interface? Not sure what to get really, i've used all my sata ports up, currently only use maxtor drives, but they are pretty loud.

rpstewart · 2 Apr 2007 at 19:26

To be honest I wouldn't buy a big IDE drive anymore. Intel have stopped providing IDE ports natively within their chipsets which is a clear sign that the end of the road is near for ATA133. You would be better off getting a big SATA drive to replace one of your existing ones and relegating the small one to an external enclosure for backups.

If, however, you do wish to go down the IDE route the same recommendations tend to hold true, there is very little difference in the electronics required to drive IDE and SATA disks so most models are available in both flavours still although the IDE ones tend to be a bit more expensive.

Danger Phoenix · 2 Apr 2007 at 19:31

aceface57 said:
Is there any suggestions for big Hdd's on ide interface? Not sure what to get really, i've used all my sata ports up, currently only use maxtor drives, but they are pretty loud.

I would get a SATA drive and a SATA to IDE Adaptor... IDE drives are too old now, so its not much point getting those...

Or you could buy a SATA PCI card

james.miller · 2 Apr 2007 at 19:35

LewisStuart said:
Oh, I thought this was Seagate's own technology.

are you kidding lol? it was hitachi who actually announced it first.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/stora...cording-To-Follow-First-Half-Terrabyte-HDD/p1

back in 2005. get perpendicular! anybody remember that animation? half a year before the seagates were available over here (in april-may 2006)

Danger Phoenix · 2 Apr 2007 at 19:36

james.miller said:
are you kidding lol? it was hitachi who actually announced it first.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/stora...cording-To-Follow-First-Half-Terrabyte-HDD/p1

back in 2005. get perpendicular! anybody remember that animation? half a year before the seagates were available over here (in april-may 2006)

That animation is so annoying... it could have been summed up in 15 seconds

megatron · 2 Apr 2007 at 20:43

Danger Phoenix said:
I would get a SATA drive and a SATA to IDE Adaptor... IDE drives are too old now, so its not much point getting those...

Or you could buy a SATA PCI card

I got some of those adaptor things with an Abit nforce2, I tried to use it to make an IDE drive run on an SATA port not so long ago and it didnt work. So they are for making Sata drives run on an IDE controller?

Abit serillel 2 its called.