Is this a good hard drive?

[kanezfan]

One of my drives is starting to click a lot and even though I've run diags on it and it passed, I'm going to buy another drive to replace it. I'm looking at this drive at Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5566988&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat33200050001&id=1055388011277). It's a Seagate 120GB with an 8MB buffer. It's ATA100, not 133, but really, does that matter anyways? I remember when ATA133 came out, the benchmarks then showed very little difference.

edit: I know Newegg has the same one for $10 cheaper, but I want it now.

[lemonlime]

ATA133 is a total farce, even the quickest ATA drives will not exceed a maximum throughput of ~70MB/s.. ATA100 is fine :thumbsup:

[CB]

Yea, and that's a good brand. I've never had an issue with a Seagate. Unlike Maxtor... I've never had a Maxtor work past the 1 1/2 yr. mark...

[kanezfan]

good enough for me.

[Tex]

I just bought a 250gb maxtor at Sam's club for around $136 a week ago and saw the same drive yesterday at MicroCenter for $139 if you have either of those options near ya also.

Tex

One of my drives is starting to click a lot and even though I've run diags on it and it passed, I'm going to buy another drive to replace it. I'm looking at this drive at Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5566988&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat33200050001&id=1055388011277). It's a Seagate 120GB with an 8MB buffer. It's ATA100, not 133, but really, does that matter anyways? I remember when ATA133 came out, the benchmarks then showed very little difference.

edit: I know Newegg has the same one for $10 cheaper, but I want it now.

[kanezfan]

Wish I did, but unfortunately I don't. 130GB for $40 more, damn...

[Tex]

I think the 250's are the current sweet spot price wise. The 300's are usually a good bit more.

[lemonlime]

If you havent already picked up that drive, I would look around a bit more dude, check out some of the smaller computer shops around you. Here in Canada, we have some places carrying 200GB Western Digital Caviar drives (8mb cache) for like $135CDN, which is about the same price as that 120 you linked..

[kanezfan]

I went to Best Buy and found a Hitachi DeskStar 160GB 8MB cache for $69 after mail in rebate. I was hesitant because of the IBM history with these drives, but couldn't resist such a good deal. When I came home and looked it up on various sites, I didn't find any current negative press on it. I know I know, I'll be crying to myself "Why didn't I just get the Seagate!!!!" when this one turns into a DeathStar too ;D

Right on time too, I was trying to Ghost the old drive onto the new one and it fails with a cyclic redundancy check about halfway through, tried it twice. I'll just have to go with a fresh install of XP, can't hurt anyways.

[Tex]

Those are killer drives. I would spend more for one of those then the seagate you targeted.

Tex

[kanezfan]

Those are killer drives. I would spend more for one of those then the seagate you targeted.

Tex

See when you endorse a drive like that, I know I made the right choice :headbange