A New Hard Drive

[The Hitman]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=14&subcat=940 this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=14&subcat=940 or this one

Need to replace my crappy 74gig sata 2meg cache jobbie. My pc is grinding to a halt and its starting to take ages getting into xp and the hd light is always on full whack. It cant keep upwith a good game and and my linux and distros downloading

My board does not support sata 2. But my new board upgrade will . So I will see some beneift going from a 2 meg cache to a 32meg cache . All opinions will be noticed and of course any advice from the big blue shark

I vote none of the above and go for the 16 meg WD http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...atid=14&subcat=

[Halcyon]

I vote for none. I have heard bad things about Samsung drives.

I'd go for this one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=HD-146-SE


There is a 5 year warranty for a reason. Great drive

[Jon T]

As Zing and Halcyon have said, go with WD.

[Eric55]

Another vote for WD.

[admars]

i voted Samsung, on strength of mine I bought a year or so ago to replace a maxtor that died.

I'd avoid IBM/Hitachi Deathstar or Maxotr.

As others have said WD are highly regarded, as are Seagate. I went for Samsung, as at the time well regarded for quietness, speed, and reliability. I didn't realise they had gone down hill.

Seagate bought Maxtor iirc so make of that what you will

Neither, both are crap/nasty/fail easily.

WD all the way, only good HD supplier left imo.

[admars]

I thought they were keeping them as 2 brands, like Audi and Skoda, or Tesco Finest and Tesco Value

[LSainsbury]

I voted for the Samsung, but I would really really buy a Maxtor or Seagate.

Don't even go near the DEATHSTAR.

[alferret]

I am in agreement with most of the above, WD are by far the better manufacturer of HDD's and if by chance you do get a fail their RMA is very very painless.

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I vote for none. I have heard bad things about Samsung drives.

My current drive which I've been running for about 3 years now is a Samsung. It replaced two Western Digital drives that died for seemingly no reason.

It is an IDE drive though, not SATA, and it's so far the best drive I've had.

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Originally Posted by alferret

I am in agreement with most of the above, WD are by far the better manufacturer of HDD's and if by chance you do get a fail their RMA is very very painless.

True, but I filled in the RMA from their web site for both my failed WD drives and they wanted me to send them to Germany. Not really worth the cost, when I could buy new ones (more capacity as well) for the same price as sending the old ones away.

[DocDutch]

I got 2 of these in my system and are doing well

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=14&subcat=940

so another vote for WD from me.

[The Hitman]

Thanks guys and mister shark for all of your opions and help most appreciated