Jadon on 23/6/2009 at 23:00
so my main drive in my computer crapped out on me this past weekend (its MFT was hosed somehow). i was able to recover it, it boots fine and i can access all my files but i think im on borrowed time.
so my question to everybody is what drive would be the best bang for buck and has great reliability. drive needs to be at least 250GB to replace the one that trying to die. thanks.
bikerdude on 24/6/2009 at 16:12
Quote Posted by Jadon
so my question to everybody is what drive would be the best bang for buck and has great reliability. drive needs to be at least 250GB to replace the one that trying to die. thanks.
this is such a subjective question as different people have different preferences.... but if you want to take the word of a computer engineer who has tested lots of different hardware (me) then I suggest the following drive
£34, 320 GB Seagate ST3320418AS Barracuda 7200.12, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 9.5 ms, and 120-100MB/s read/write - (
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/320GB-Seagate-ST3320418AS-Barracuda-720012-SATA-3Gb-s-7200rpm-16MB-Cache-11-ms) LINK
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Jadon on 26/6/2009 at 00:27
Hmm looks nice but everywhere i look it's either out of stock or way out of the price range ($100 being my top end.) any other suggestions?
TBE on 26/6/2009 at 03:40
One of the main things you should be asking is, "What kind of drive is it?" Or "What kind of drives does my motherboard support?"
You didn't mention if you were replacing a SATA drive or and IDE (PATA) drive. PATAs are really overpriced right now. SATAs are dirt cheap. Get a 500-750 GB cheap one from newegg.com. (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136283) Here's a 750GB drive for $79.99 with free shipping.
If you don't have the SATA connectors on your motherboard, you can also drop in a SATA controller card into any PCI slot. (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020) Something like this drop in card.
Jadon on 26/6/2009 at 04:27
yea i got both sata and pata (older P4 board) but im replacing a sata. knew i forgot some information. I heard somewhere that drives in the 501GB-1TB range have a higher failure rate than ones 500GB or lower due to possibly being to much stuff being crammed into them. Is there any truth to this?
bikerdude on 26/6/2009 at 09:43
Quote Posted by Jadon
but im replacing a sata. knew i forgot some information. I heard somewhere that drives in the 501GB-1TB range have a higher failure rate, any truth to this?
What part of the world are you in so I can look on some local websites for you, and in regard to modern hard drives failing, there isnt a high failure rate of any kind.
Jadon on 26/6/2009 at 22:30
im in the central US. Been looking around at sites and i used be good with finding out info and such on hardware but it's been a long while since i last had to so i havent kept up on all the new hardware.
bikerdude on 27/6/2009 at 18:29
I found a ST3220613AS(320GB, 16Mb cache, 7200rpm, 100-120 write-read) on newegg for $54 - (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148316)
This is the actual drive/s I am running in raid, these drives are single platter so are even thinner than your normal 3.5" drives - thus run very cool.
