Need a new hard drive

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manOFice

14-06-2006 17:04:02

I'm never buying a Maxtor ever again. I've had this 250giger for about 2 years now and i think it's finally shitting out. It keeps making this "whining" noise and it keep disapearing. Today i was downloading something to the drive and got a disc error saying it can't store the files and the drive disapeared again!

I have a decently new motherboard with onboard SATA...so i'm thinking this is the newest technology? I should get a SATA drive? I need something that is probally WD and connections by SATA. I need a 250+ giger. I saw that best buy has some on sale for like 80 bucks. What everyone think?

theman2005

14-06-2006 17:23:44

[quote9d25b38541="manofice"]I'm never buying a Maxtor ever again. I've had this 250giger for about 2 years now and i think it's finally shitting out. It keeps making this "whining" noise and it keep disapearing. Today i was downloading something to the drive and got a disc error saying it can't store the files and the drive disapeared again!

I have a decently new motherboard with onboard SATA...so i'm thinking this is the newest technology? I should get a SATA drive? I need something that is probally WD and connections by SATA. I need a 250+ giger. I saw that best buy has some on sale for like 80 bucks. What everyone think?[/quote9d25b38541]

i don't like maxtor nor western digital. Both of mines clicks and are getting slower and slower to respond........

I've had great experiences with Seagates and they are pretty cheap too.

manOFice

14-06-2006 17:25:49

isn't seagate related to maxtor?

Wolfeman

14-06-2006 17:30:55

If you ask enough people you'll find out all hard drives suck. I hear the most bad about WD. I have 2 Maxtor 200GB and they are working fine 1 1/2 years later of being on pretty much the whole time. I guess Seagate is the way to go shrug

manOFice

14-06-2006 17:32:12

yeah my computer is on 24/7. I have my main windows running on a WD 120giger that is oldddddddddddddddd and that is running great, its the stupid 250giger maxtor....i thought maybe seagate was the cheap way to go? maybe not?

theman2005

14-06-2006 17:37:04

i have a stack of clickign western digital harddrives, and only 2 bad maxtors. So i guess maxtors are good and seagates are even better.

Remember to keep them cool )

manOFice

14-06-2006 17:40:06

i guess i'll look at seagate, how do i keep hdd's cool?

and where would be the cheapest place to buy a seagate?

theman2005

14-06-2006 17:42:05

[quote96fb438031="manofice"]i guess i'll look at seagate, how do i keep hdd's cool?[/quote96fb438031]

I use a few fans, including some harddrive fans that are attached in the bottom of the drive and some case fans near it. They work quite well if you leave your system on for a long time.

Tholek

14-06-2006 17:45:33

I had avoided Maxtor's for years due to the bad rep. I also used to think WDs were great. Well, a WD went bad on me about a month after purchase, and it took a lot of effort for them just to send me a refurbished replacement, so I've crossed them off my list.

However, last years Black Friday sale had some 250G Maxtors's at a price worth the risk, and I haven't had any problems with them yet.

Still, I'd preferrably go with Seagate or Hitatchi if money wasn't an issue.

Wolfeman

14-06-2006 17:49:44

Seagate has 5 year warranties if I'm not mistaken. I might get a 10K RPM Seagate SCSI for my next computer as my main drive and 2 big old Maxtors as my storage drives...

manOFice

14-06-2006 17:55:54

http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148131&ATT=22-148-131&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r

how about this?

Vector

14-06-2006 18:01:32

[quoteda3aaabd2f="manofice"]http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148131&ATT=22-148-131&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r

how about this?[/quoteda3aaabd2f]


that is probobly the best SATA storage drive that isnt a raptor.

manOFice

14-06-2006 18:05:40

great, sounds like i'll go with that drive then )

manOFice

14-06-2006 18:07:21

what kinda cables do i have to buy?

manOFice

14-06-2006 18:16:52

what kinda cables do i have to buy?

my onboard sata connection says SATA 150 on it and the drive is 3.0Gb/s

is this a good cable?

http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16812104058

I ordered that hdd above and that cable above.

ILoveToys

14-06-2006 20:42:19

I'd say watch woot...they have refurbed 250 WD's all the time...I picked one up for $50 and stuck it in a $30 external enclose...portable and it works great to store stuff on that I don't use all the time.

Tholek

14-06-2006 21:39:46

[quote8cba62a3e3="ILoveToys"]I'd say watch woot...they have refurbed 250 WD's all the time...I picked one up for $50 and stuck it in a $30 external enclose...portable and it works great to store stuff on that I don't use all the time.[/quote8cba62a3e3]

WD is spotty, and you want WD refurbs? shock

If time isn't that much of an issue, wait for Black Friday.

Vector

14-06-2006 22:50:29

that is a good SATA cable, but just get the standard red one that is like 18 inches, and make sure that your motherboard has an SATA port, if it doesnt you are wasting your time!

Wolfeman

15-06-2006 00:25:23

I need more storage and I'm having fucked up video issues (

manOFice

15-06-2006 05:01:03

[quote816e04b724="Vector"]that is a good SATA cable, but just get the standard red one that is like 18 inches, and make sure that your motherboard has an SATA port, if it doesnt you are wasting your time![/quote816e04b724]

Yeah my mobo has 2 sata ports on it. I went and bought that 300gigger and the cord )should be here on monday

Vector

15-06-2006 11:15:59

awesome, there are either 2 or 4 so you can set up raid. raid is mostly used for servers because you can have several different setups, like abackup system or merging two hard drives into one large one (virtually), kind of like the opposite of a partition.