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I need a new hard drive. I need one that is very large, like 200+ gb. I don't care about speed, just capacity and reliability. What do the dezinens of SDN have to recomend?

Also, tips on installing it would be useful....

Seagate.

Seagate is the greatest.

I second Seagate.

Seagate is your friend. As for installation tips, as long as the jumpers are set right it's pretty straightforward. Just try not to wear wool clothing or anything that creates a ton of static. Static bad, fries chips, computer no worky.

Seagate, Western Digital.

Comando293 wrote:I need a new hard drive. I need one that is very large, like 200+ gb. I don't care about speed, just capacity and reliability. What do the dezinens of SDN have to recomend?

Also, tips on installing it would be useful....

BAM

320GB, and a five year warranty (which is why Seagate gets recommended so much). Only $90.

Be careful to get the right type. It'd suck to get an SATA drive if you don't have any SATA ports.

Uraniun235 wrote:

Comando293 wrote:I need a new hard drive. I need one that is very large, like 200+ gb. I don't care about speed, just capacity and reliability. What do the dezinens of SDN have to recomend?

Also, tips on installing it would be useful....

BAM

320GB, and a five year warranty (which is why Seagate gets recommended so much). Only $90.

The 7200.10 is indeed the best performing hard drive for your dollar on the market. Go for it.

La Cie for external, Seagate for internal

Seagate is usually highly rated though I do like Samsung as well. WD and Maxtor are good outside of RAID configurations (I've heard some of weird firmware issues in RAID). Hitachi and Toshiba are also pretty solid.

You pretty much named all the HD manufacturers there - while some of them might be "solid" it doesn't help much if they are also the worst at the same time...

My experience recommends Seagate as well, and on the other hand staying away from Maxtor and Hitachi (Maxtor tends to crap out on me far more often then others - yes I know, anecdotal and all, but I'm not buying another Maxtor if I can help it, while Hitachi is getting there as well). The rest fall into the "good enough" category that I don't mind buying them if they are the only options in the range I'm looking for (and have to get the HD fast so can't shop around too much).

mmar wrote:You pretty much named all the HD manufacturers there - while some of them might be "solid" it doesn't help much if they are also the worst at the same time...

I've seen no statistics indicating issues with any brands, other than weird one-off issues (Deskstar 75, for example). Do also note that I put some caveats in for Maxtor and WD drives.

I'm frankly not convinced any of us have a large enough data set to say anything statistically relevant about various brands of HDDs.

I think Maxtor was bought by Seagate, wasn't it?

The only issue I see with that is the DaimlerChrysler problem. You know, people said Chrysler's quality would go up, but instead Mercedes quality went down.

Maxtor was indeed bought by Seagate.