Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)

galadial · 10 Apr 2006 at 20:54

About to buy this HDD as part of a AMD 3700+, X1800XT new rig. Is there any other drive which offers better performance or reliability at this price point?

Rambaud · 11 Apr 2006 at 00:17

Some people reckon the Seagates may be more reliable over the long term.

I have bought two of these WD drives for RAID0.

And a 300Gb SATA II Seagate for data.

I have other WD and Seagate drives, and none have been any problem so far.

Camalot · 11 Apr 2006 at 17:08

I am also buying this drive for an amd x2 3800 x1800xt, i did make a thread about it and i got recomended that drive. So id stick with it !

ATI · 16 Apr 2006 at 11:03

galadial said:
About to buy this HDD as part of a AMD 3700+, X1800XT new rig. Is there any other drive which offers better performance or reliability at this price point?

i have had of em all and my opionion in this order

1 WD (best rma and overall disk)
2 Seagate (just returned one the other week 7200.8 300gb)
3 samsung

unless i,m broke and the other two went bust

maxtor (cheap but i,m not sure if its reliable)
Ibm Deathstar (one of the people who had the deathstar)

hope this helps

smids · 17 Apr 2006 at 02:31

ATI said:
i have had of em all and my opionion in this order

1 WD (best rma and overall disk)
2 Seagate (just returned one the other week 7200.8 300gb)
3 samsung

unless i,m broke and the other two went bust

maxtor (cheap but i,m not sure if its reliable)
Ibm Deathstar (one of the people who had the deathstar)

hope this helps

IBM Deathstar is no longer a valid argument though. Hitachi make ecellent drives and aside from the two deathstar models, the GXP75 and GXP60, all other drives were actually very good. In fact, Hitachi are giving Seagate a run for their money at the moment in terms sof reliability.