I have to buy a new hard drive and I'd like some advice. It has to be over 40 Gigs and I'm concerned more about getting one that dosn't run hot than one that's fast. Cool and fast would be great. I need a new home for the 9's: Slackware 9, Mandrake 9, and Red Hat 9. Any opinions would be most welcome.
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, millward wrote:
I have to buy a new hard drive and I'd like some advice. It has to be over 40 Gigs and I'm concerned more about getting one that dosn't run hot than one that's fast. Cool and fast would be great. I need a new home for the 9's: Slackware 9, Mandrake 9, and Red Hat 9. Any opinions would be most welcome.
My current favorite is the Western Digital with the 8 MEG buffer. Mine runs like a charm, and it's certainly a lot cooler than the Maxrots I have. Fast, quiet, reliable. It's never a bad idea to shell out the extra $15 or so for a hard drive cooler though....
->My current favorite is the Western Digital with the 8 MEG buffer. Mine ->runs like a charm, and it's certainly a lot cooler than the Maxrots I ->have. Fast, quiet, reliable. It's never a bad idea to shell out the extra ->$15 or so for a hard drive cooler though.... -> While I agree I'd also like to add the new Seagates (ATA IV) are also very good. It has nifty liquid bearings and is the quietest harddrive I've ever owned. For preformance I'd go with the Western Digital Special Editions (aka 8mb buffer) and the other advantage is that the Special Edition drives have a 3 year warranty rather than the 1 year warranty offered by the other drive manufacturers.
The Seagate (ATA IV) drive has the advantage of price as according to NCIX.com it currently runs for $149 for 80GB and $119 for 40GB while the Western Digital Special Edition drives run for $163.85 for 80GB and $122 for the the 40 GB.
IMHO the extra $20 is well worth it.
Other than that I'm happy with both.
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