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What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
quality one with over 100Gb.

 

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Hello

Here you go.

www.westerndigital.com
www.maxtor.com
www.seagate.com

Alvin


Bennos wrote:

> What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
> quality one with over 100Gb.

 

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Depends on what you are looking for. I have a sea gate barracuda. It has
good access time, and run quiet. Western Digital and Sea Gate are the two
top dogs as far as I know. A good place to read up on them is at
www.anandtech.com. They have all kinds of articles on anything you can think
of for your computer. I am happy with the barracuda though.

"Bennos" wrote:

> What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
> quality one with over 100Gb.
>
>
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In article <7y3Md.145127$K7.27862@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Bennos <bswong19@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
>quality one with over 100Gb.
>
>


Look for a backup strategy.



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A major problem with HDDs these days is cooling.. mounting points in cases
do not allow for much airflow between drives, and as they get physically
smaller, but with greater capacity and speed, they also tend to generate
much heat.. adding the heat generated by memory, cpus, and video cards
raises the interior of cases to silly temperatures which in turn affects
hard drives more.. drives will lose the data and format if they get too
hot..

Whatever make you buy, make sure that there is plenty of space around it..
mount multiple drives with one half bay between each.. and don't forget to
back up important stuff to media that can be stored away from anything in
the case..

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> What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
> quality one with over 100Gb.
>
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:18:11 +0000, Bennos wrote:

> What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good
> quality one with over 100Gb.

I've been purchasing hard drives since the early 80's for computers and
there is one thing I've learned: Vendor problems go in cycles. One vendor
will have problems with a couple batches for about 6~8 months and then get
it fixed and will be good for a couple years, then the next one (or two at
the same time) will have problems and the cycle repeats.

Stay away from CHEAP drives, get one with a 3 year warranty or longer,
they've started moving to 1 year replacement warranties on system. Stay
away from Quantum or DeskStar drives - these have the largest failure rate
in my experience with clients workstations and servers.

I purchase Western Digital or Maxtor drives for workstations and Seagate
for servers. I have a stack of 50+ Deskstar drive that are dead, but only
a couple from any other vendor.

Make sure you get the 3 year warranty.



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Thanks for the great advice.
Question: How do I create a "half bay" apart? I've got an ATX case.
I'm not aware that the bays can be changed in it?

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In the last exciting episode on Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:31:43 -0500, "Mike
Hall \(MS-MVP\)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote:

|A major problem with HDDs these days is cooling.. mounting points in cases
|do not allow for much airflow between drives, and as they get physically
|smaller, but with greater capacity and speed, they also tend to generate
|much heat.. adding the heat generated by memory, cpus, and video cards
|raises the interior of cases to silly temperatures which in turn affects
|hard drives more.. drives will lose the data and format if they get too
|hot..
|
|Whatever make you buy, make sure that there is plenty of space around it..
|mount multiple drives with one half bay between each.. and don't forget to
|back up important stuff to media that can be stored away from anything in
|the case..