medhunter Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Hi , every body.My first post in this forum. hey experts ; I want ur help wanna buy P-ATA IDE hard disk which one 2 choose? the most available here (not buying via Internet) are Maxtor diamond plus 9 7200 RPM W.D Caviar 7200 RPM Seagate Paracoda 7200 RPMthey r almost the same price (2-3% difference)which one to choose ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 I've WD 8mb cache 7200 rpm 120gb hdd.. its working pretty good.i'd have bought seagate, but it was more expensive at that time..if u can get a s-ata 10000 rpm ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cazzman Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 go the wd caviar se.great cost per gigabyte and runs good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 The WDs Caviars are very good, got 2 of them here Go for the SATA WD Raptor 74gb if you can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medhunter Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 thx ,guysI wanna state that a 8 mb cache is really expensive for me @ this timeso I will stick to 2mb cache diskswell nobody tried Maxtor b4?well I did ; it was fine but didn't try W.D or Paracoda myself for enough time so now what I got is:at least practically W.D takes the lead.well any other commens?& plz specify ur experience with them after comparing theoritically coz @ my level (I am not a harware guy)I noticed almost no significant differnces between them theoritically according to their specifications on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 (edited) hey there are lots of webpages that tecnically compare themtom's hardware, chip magazine, pc world magazine i'm sure they've some sort of statistics..@aaron hey if u haven't got your raptor's yet look at this pagehttp://wdraptorpromo.wdc.com/they've mail-in rebate $20 for 74gb Edited April 19, 2004 by XtremeMaC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Rebates? I'm not in the USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonone Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Rebates? I'm not in the USA not there but I wish 2 be there I had WD - HDD 120 GB - 8 MB cach , but it stoped ( dead) . I use it only 6 monthes , I lost about 100 gb Applications + flims +many cool things... 120 gb = 114 Gb ( HAAA) you can use only 114 GB from this HDD > (Formated Data)using other brand can earn 2 gb more I am useing Now Maxtor , working better . but as XtremeMaC and AaronXP said Go for the SATA WD Raptor 74gb if you can . 10000 RPM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyunkeru Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I used to work in a computer store. I tried most of those hdds. I think I will go with WDC or seagate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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