Is this a good hard drive?

kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
edited March 2005 in Hardware
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. 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.

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  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    ATA133 is a total farce, even the quickest ATA drives will not exceed a maximum throughput of ~70MB/s.. ATA100 is fine :thumbsup:
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    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...
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    good enough for me.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2005
    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
    kanezfan wrote:
    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. 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.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Wish I did, but unfortunately I don't. 130GB for $40 more, damn...
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2005
    I think the 250's are the current sweet spot price wise. The 300's are usually a good bit more.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    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..
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    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.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2005
    Those are killer drives. I would spend more for one of those then the seagate you targeted.

    Tex
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Tex wrote:
    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
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