-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Vecchione escribió: >> I haven't yet decided what HD to buy, I see good prices on 320G >> drives, but I'm tempted to stay with my usual plan and install >> two drives, maybe two 160G drives. I'm especially interested in >> finding out if there are particular brands to avoid, and of >> course I'd like to know the recommended brands. > > > For HDs there are two I would reccomend. The first being Seagate, > and they probably have the upper hand at the moment with thier > newer drives and the price per storage(750 GB for 450 dollars aint > bad;) The other I would reccomend is Hitachi. > > Those are the two brands I use in all of my machines on any regular > basis. Once in a while I might get Maxtor or someone like that if > I am just backing stuff onto it, pulling it out and not touching it > again;) > > Seablade > I've heard of people having trouble with their Western Digital drives, but I have had none, I've also extensively used Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital drives, all just fine. At the price/storage/performance ratio of these drives, I would have to say that Western Digital drives take an edge over the others (for ATA-1x0), for S-ATA, I've no much experience with them... I have one Seagate 120Gb S-ATA 150 drive working just fine. - From other computers I've used, seems like Samsung drives are bit slower than Seagates and Maxtors, and the fastest drives I've used had been ATA-133 Maxtors (even beating S-ATA 150 Seagate drives), however the one I own is ATA-100, so I can't comment much on that... Sadly down here in Mexico the prices are a bit steep and I usually buy Western Digital due to storage/performance/price ratio. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqZm0XM+XOp70dwoRAuw+AKCNXmqJaTFNmwygkqsB6k1sapF53QCeKwvA 6E08w4JqWU/JPJ4pJ4j4aF0= =8zz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
