Spec me a hardrive(Mine is rubbish and i think it's dieing)

Sniper123 · 4 Jan 2007 at 15:04

Hi i have a 200GB maxtor 6l200mo ata which is on it's last leg's.
I'm after the fastest hardrive i can get for around 60 pound's with a ideal size of about 300GB

I don't know anything about hardrive so I'm hoping i came to the correct place for advise

rpstewart · 4 Jan 2007 at 15:09

Simple: Seagate 7200.10 320Gb.

I've finally got round to putting my money where my mouth is - got 2 arriving in the morning

Sniper123 · 4 Jan 2007 at 15:16

Ok thx's a lot

What sort of proformance gain can i expect over my maxtor?Faster loading time's ect, stability would also be a nice gain over my maxtor

When using sandra to benchmark my hardrive unlike the testsample's my hardrive start's of with a read speed of 59MB/sec and has dip's down as low as 24MB/s lol.Surely it should slowly slow down like the other hardrive's :confused:

b.cummins · 4 Jan 2007 at 15:16

can't go wrong with any western digital. Samsung if you like it quiet.

reliability wise, WD can't be beaten. EVER

in the past i've had maxtors, seagate, hitachi. All have failed and needed an RMA.. Since I went to WD, never changed my mind again. I'd only say samsung because I heard they're reliable. WD from experience tho are complete performers.