New Hard Drive advice pls

[Archer]

I am close to filling up my 160gb drive and want to install a new drive for no more than £65. Which drives are the best in terms of speed, reliability etc at this price range?

Any help would be appreciated as I was looking at the Maxtor 6V300F0 DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM SATA II 16MB Cache but have been told that Maxtor are quite unreliable(?)

thanks in advance for any help / advice.

 

[Archer]

Thanks a lot for your help guys.

Div0 - I think I will go for that drive, seems like a pretty sweet deal.

I have never done any meddling with the inside of a pc before though, so would I find it easy to add another drive?

Cheers.

 

[Archer]

I do have some awareness of going inside a PC as some of my mates and my current GF have built their own PCs. I was just a a little nervous about giving it a go myself and knew you guys would be able to give me good advice as to dos / don'ts etc.

I am probably gonna get the drive tomorrow and install it so if I do have any problems I am sure I will come running back here for help

Thanks again for the help everyone, its nice to know there are people out there willing to give advice / a helping hand to us newbs.

Cheers.

 

[Archer]

Well I tried it and it failed. I plugged the HDD (WD Caviar 250Gb 16mb cache) into the SATA 1 slot on my MOBO (other HDD was already in two) and connect the power. Turned on the PC and it says no drives are attached?

Any help / ideas as to what i might have done wrong or need to do would be appreciated please.

Thanks.

 

[Archer]

Bios seems to show all sata ports are enabled.

@div0 I went for the drive as a friend bought one and reccommended it to me.

the mobo doesn't support SATA II but the only problem is that drive doesn't seem to have come with any jumpers???

 

[Archer]

Just to let you know that getting a jumper for the drive worked a treat. As soon as I put the jumper on the drive and booted it up, it worked fine.

Thanks again for your help guys!!!!