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Thomas Vecchione escribió:

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>> 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.

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