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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:38:00 -
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I'm looking for a 100+ GB harddrive to add to this machine, can anyone recommend some cheap ones a notch up from crap?`
All I get when checking are these state of the art insanely costly ones. 
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:38:00 -
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I'm looking for a 100+ GB harddrive to add to this machine, can anyone recommend some cheap ones a notch up from crap?`
All I get when checking are these state of the art insanely costly ones.
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:41:00 -
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Western Digital make decent hard drives.
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:41:00 -
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Western Digital make decent hard drives.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:51:00 -
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I'm not sure if it's available but I highly recommend Western Digital Raptor. I'm using 2 36Gb versions.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.10.26 15:51:00 -
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I'm not sure if it's available but I highly recommend Western Digital Raptor. I'm using 2 36Gb versions.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.10.26 16:32:00 -
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The Raptors seem like very good drives, but quite expensive as the 36GB version costs about as much as the regular 120GB WD Caviar. I have the 120GB disk, and I'd say it's quite good value for the money.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.10.26 16:32:00 -
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The Raptors seem like very good drives, but quite expensive as the 36GB version costs about as much as the regular 120GB WD Caviar. I have the 120GB disk, and I'd say it's quite good value for the money.
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Skirite
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Posted - 2004.10.26 16:53:00 -
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Seagate. I've got 6 at the moment and never had any trouble with them. One is an old 8gb that I've had for a few years now, and its out lasted plenty of other makes.Which is why they're all I ever buy now.
You can get a 100gb for about thirty quid these days.
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Skirite
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Posted - 2004.10.26 16:53:00 -
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Seagate. I've got 6 at the moment and never had any trouble with them. One is an old 8gb that I've had for a few years now, and its out lasted plenty of other makes.Which is why they're all I ever buy now.
You can get a 100gb for about thirty quid these days.
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IZON
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Posted - 2004.10.26 17:17:00 -
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Western Digital, Seagate or Maxtor. For various reason I've bought all three brands in the last two months and been very satisfied. Just bought a pair of 120gb Maxtors at the local 'puter fair 48 pounds each.
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Posted - 2004.10.26 17:17:00 -
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Western Digital, Seagate or Maxtor. For various reason I've bought all three brands in the last two months and been very satisfied. Just bought a pair of 120gb Maxtors at the local 'puter fair 48 pounds each.
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Elita
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Posted - 2004.10.26 19:42:00 -
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Whatever you do, stay away from IBM/Hitachi. Whenever we have a hard drive fail at work, it's always a DeathStar. We've got 2GB WD Caviars that are still going after eight years, and Maxtors and Seagates that have done well.
At home I have an 80 GB SATA Seagate (brand new, $99 CAD), and a couple of Maxtors that are still working fine after three and seven years.
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Elita
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Posted - 2004.10.26 19:42:00 -
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Whatever you do, stay away from IBM/Hitachi. Whenever we have a hard drive fail at work, it's always a DeathStar. We've got 2GB WD Caviars that are still going after eight years, and Maxtors and Seagates that have done well.
At home I have an 80 GB SATA Seagate (brand new, $99 CAD), and a couple of Maxtors that are still working fine after three and seven years.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.26 20:20:00 -
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It's just a supplement harddrive for storage, 100GB movies basically, with that in mind what would be the best buy?
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.26 20:20:00 -
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It's just a supplement harddrive for storage, 100GB movies basically, with that in mind what would be the best buy?
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fras
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Posted - 2004.10.26 22:32:00 -
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my advice would be to get a quiet one with fluid barings or something. It's not something you naturally think about when buying a hard drive but they can be the noisiest thing in your PC.
Check out www.silentpcreview.com for more info
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fras
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Posted - 2004.10.26 22:32:00 -
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my advice would be to get a quiet one with fluid barings or something. It's not something you naturally think about when buying a hard drive but they can be the noisiest thing in your PC.
Check out www.silentpcreview.com for more info
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Xrak
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Posted - 2004.10.26 23:36:00 -
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Seagate, quiet and strong.
I have had a few problems with Maxtors, nothing too bad thou.
Western digital, never had might be good might not.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2004.10.26 23:36:00 -
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Seagate, quiet and strong.
I have had a few problems with Maxtors, nothing too bad thou.
Western digital, never had might be good might not.
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Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 00:10:00 -
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I'll go ahead and throw out the old maxim of, "Remember you are going to get what you pay for", buy something cheap=get something cheap. Usually depends on what kind of items it is. In this case, that old maxim almost doesn't really apply here.
Latest modern hard drives are built with good enough quality components to sustain many years of use without any faults. They are even going so far as to extend their warranties with western digital leading the way I believe.
Your choice is whether you want go with an oem style drive or a retail version. They are both the same drive, just the oem one doesn't come with the fancy packaging and any manuals /disks. Oem versions are going to be cheaper because of this. You can usually find them in all sorts of online computer hardware sites such as newegg.com or at your local comp. hardware store.
As far as brand, I only have owned western digital models, not because they are the best of the best, but, because I find that their price to performance/reliability ratio is hard to beat. It seems lately though that all hard drive manufacturers are coming together and are starting to be on the same page asa far as pricing/performance is concerned.
I own two WD 120GB 7,200rpm 8MB cache drives, and feel that it was a very wise choice for my money. I have one drive for my system drive, and the other is my games/music/movies drive.
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Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 00:10:00 -
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I'll go ahead and throw out the old maxim of, "Remember you are going to get what you pay for", buy something cheap=get something cheap. Usually depends on what kind of items it is. In this case, that old maxim almost doesn't really apply here.
Latest modern hard drives are built with good enough quality components to sustain many years of use without any faults. They are even going so far as to extend their warranties with western digital leading the way I believe.
Your choice is whether you want go with an oem style drive or a retail version. They are both the same drive, just the oem one doesn't come with the fancy packaging and any manuals /disks. Oem versions are going to be cheaper because of this. You can usually find them in all sorts of online computer hardware sites such as newegg.com or at your local comp. hardware store.
As far as brand, I only have owned western digital models, not because they are the best of the best, but, because I find that their price to performance/reliability ratio is hard to beat. It seems lately though that all hard drive manufacturers are coming together and are starting to be on the same page asa far as pricing/performance is concerned.
I own two WD 120GB 7,200rpm 8MB cache drives, and feel that it was a very wise choice for my money. I have one drive for my system drive, and the other is my games/music/movies drive.
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Capt Silk
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Posted - 2004.10.27 02:54:00 -
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look here
The extra $7.5 (USD) buys you a 5year warrenty compared to the WD 120gig. I have this drive in SATA and I love it, never had a problem.
-Capt Silk
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Capt Silk
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Posted - 2004.10.27 02:54:00 -
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look here
The extra $7.5 (USD) buys you a 5year warrenty compared to the WD 120gig. I have this drive in SATA and I love it, never had a problem.
-Capt Silk
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Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 13:25:00 -
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 Originally by: Capt Silk
look here
The extra $7.5 (USD) buys you a 5year warrenty compared to the WD 120gig. I have this drive in SATA and I love it, never had a problem.
-Capt Silk
This is damn good suggestion here by Capt Silk. Of course, I don't have any xperience with seagate but from the research I have done on them, you can't go wrong. Seagate has been in the business for many a years, they know what they are doing. And besides that, It has a very good pricepoint for what you are looking for.
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Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: Capt Silk
look here
The extra $7.5 (USD) buys you a 5year warrenty compared to the WD 120gig. I have this drive in SATA and I love it, never had a problem.
-Capt Silk
This is damn good suggestion here by Capt Silk. Of course, I don't have any xperience with seagate but from the research I have done on them, you can't go wrong. Seagate has been in the business for many a years, they know what they are doing. And besides that, It has a very good pricepoint for what you are looking for.
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2004.10.27 14:37:00 -
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deffo stay away from IBM. I had a 20gig deathstar a few years back, it bust, IBM replaced it, that broke, they replaced it again and that ended up dieing too. I just slung it in the bin and bought a maxtor, not had 1 problem since
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2004.10.27 14:37:00 -
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deffo stay away from IBM. I had a 20gig deathstar a few years back, it bust, IBM replaced it, that broke, they replaced it again and that ended up dieing too. I just slung it in the bin and bought a maxtor, not had 1 problem since
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2004.10.27 15:38:00 -
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I deal with a lot of people who know about hard drives as a part of my job, and the general opinion has always been that Seagate and Western Digital are pretty hard to beat.
Plus, the address of one of Seagate's offices is 1 Disk Drive, which is nice.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2004.10.27 15:38:00 -
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I deal with a lot of people who know about hard drives as a part of my job, and the general opinion has always been that Seagate and Western Digital are pretty hard to beat.
Plus, the address of one of Seagate's offices is 1 Disk Drive, which is nice.
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