No idea which drive...?

benjo · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:59

Hey all

I know absolutely nothing about hard drives. Currenty using a pants maxtor ide drive.

I'm looking for a SATA II drive, about 160GB, and it needs to be silent, i'm fed up with this maxtor

I'm gonna have probably around £50 max, but not too sure on what brand to go for etc.

Any help appreciated

Danke

lay-z-boy · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:05

Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)

just a £1 over.

Samsungs are very, very quite, an alternative however is seagate.

humax · 6 Jul 2006 at 06:53

well if u can spend a little more go for this
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE) Price: £52.50 (£61.69 Including VAT at 17.5%)
i have the 320 gig version and there a great drive. and they are perpendicular .and its worth paying a little more for this drive .if u wanna know more about perpendicular here a little video for u to look at

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

FrankJH · 6 Jul 2006 at 07:19

I have a couple of seagates and they are fabulous drives - speedy , reliable and quiet , cant comment on the samsungs though

benjo · 6 Jul 2006 at 07:21

Thanks guys

Silver_&_Gold · 6 Jul 2006 at 16:32

Get the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, it's far better than anything Samsung have released.

benjo · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:09

See, now i'm confused again :confused:

Explicit · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:22

benjo said:
See, now i'm confused again

Seagate .10 for the win!

jbloggs · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:27

Another vote here for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10.

humax · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:29

benjo
get the Seagate 10 drive mate. all drive will be made this way soon . the Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB is kind of old tec now .

benjo · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:36

Aslong as it's better than the maxtor then anythings an upgrade. Also, arn't the Spinpoints like the quietest drives? If not then doh, just bought one

I already ordered one after all this info flooded in :/

james.miller · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:39

the segate barracuda has the longest warrenty, is the fastest by a long long way and is still a very quiet drive. there is nothign about a spinpoint that warrents buying one over a seagate 'cuda .10

humax · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:40

well they do say they are the quietest drives. but i have never owned one. so cant say for sure

humax · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:42

i would second what james.miller just said .the seagate is a much better drive

benjo · 7 Jul 2006 at 21:29

I'll get one next month

Lt Goody · 8 Jul 2006 at 20:31

I want to get two new drives one for windows etc and one for games,spinpoints are the drives that keep coming up,are they better than raptors?