Best Hard Drive.

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duderoo

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I am looking for about a250GB-300GB SATA 2 drive....any recommentations......also I am not keen on maxtor.
 
Go for Seagate. They make the best hard drives by far.
 
Seagate, and take the 320, its got the lowest rand per GB ratio. Its the sweetspot right now. It formats to 298GB under Windows...
 
Seagate. Their drives are by far the best - and you'll get a 5 year manufacturers warranty!
 
Ja, the new Seagate 320 gig is great. You get it for around R1050, which is a good price.

And it has perpendicular recording or some rubbish.. like that makes any difference.
 
Well I think I actually prefer a good Western Digital Caviar, but the Seagate 320GB 7200.10 model is better price/performance.

And I dont think you really even get Maxtor anymore, or atleast they arent nearly as common, bought out by Seagate a while back, so they shuold disapear completely sometime.
 
Seagate, used maxtor before and had to replace two 160sata gigs in one year because of bad sector issues... since then I had my Seagate now for year and a half and still running nicely :D
 
Seagate has the smallest percentage of drives returned. When they do go bad, they give you far more warning too. And it's the only brand I know of that can survive a 12m drop and still work :-)

I like WD too, generally feel a little quicker, but I just take issue with the heat - every single WD drive I've used runs much hotter than the Seagate equivalent, so hot that my 200gb seagate drive has burned out two external enclosures. Maxtors are even hotter.
 
Is Fujitsu any good,because I am looking for a external HD and Makro got a 250gig external for R999.00 and a WD for R629.00 for a 80gig. I can't find a Seagate external HD.Any suggestions?
 
I've had no problems with Fujitsu drives before.

I'm actually a WD fan (still think the Raptor is the best SATA drive ever invented), but currently I've got four Seagate 200GB drives in my pc (insurance claim) and so far no problems with it.
 
Thanks for the info.

Can you use SATA and SATA 2 on any machine...i.o.w. is it backwards compatible, and how do you know if your machine is SATA 2 compatible?
 
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duderoo said:
Thanks for the info.

Can you use SATA and SATA 2 on any machine...i.o.w. is it backwards compatible, and how do you know if your machine is SATA 2 compatible?
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You can use a SATA2 drive on a SATA connector. Obviously, you won't get the benefits of SATA2.

You can use a SATA drive on a SATA2 connector. Obviously, you won't get the benefits of SATA2.

From the above, it's obvious that there's no visible way to see if a connector is SATA or SATA2 (they are physically the same.) Check your motherboard / controller documentation to see what it supports.

FYI: SATA2 does not only mean 300mb/s. There are other requirements (such as hotswap) for full SATA2 compliance.
 
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