Hello. I wanna buy a 160 gb HDD SATA. What HDD should i chose: HDD MAXTOR 160GB 7200rpm 8Mb Serial-ATA 150 6Y160M0 DiamondMax Plus 9...103,7$ HDD SAMSUNG 160GB 7200rpm 8Mb Serial-ATA 150 SP1614C SpinPoint...111,2$ HDD WDIGITAL 160GB 7200rpm 8Mb Serial-ATA 150 8,9ms WD1600JD...103,5$ HDD SEAGATE 160GB 7200rpm 8Mb Serial-ATA 150 8.5ms ST3160023AS Baracuda 7200.7...108$ HDD SEAGATE 160GB 7200rpm 8Mb Serial-ATA 150 8.5ms ST3160827AS Baracuda 7200.7 with NCQ...108,7$ My configuration is: MB Asus P5GD1 Pro Proc Celeron D 2800 LGD 2x256 DDR 400 Geil Value Right now i have a Samsung 40gb, 2 mb, IDE And one more question: what is NCQ? Thanx a lot Have a nice day Iulian
i have read mixed reviews on hard drives, but i twould go with the maxtor or even western digital. have you looked at tiger for hard drives? they seem to be much cheaper than what you have listed there. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_hdd.asp there is an entire list of what they have !!
yes, they are MUCH cheaper. But i'm from Romania so the transport will cost me a lot of money i heard that WD have a lot of problems these days
romania........... yup, thats far, shipping will cost you a nut and a leg ! i'd go with the maxtor !! thats what i have now, actually, i have two of them. but i read that the W/D were pretty good, and have a longer warranty.
here is the same warranty for all hdd (3 years) it was a period of time when Seagat has 5 years warranty but... now it's back to 3 years. but it's not about the warranty it's about the stuff i have on my hdd. i'll loose everything, right?
just back up your hdd at random intervals in the event of a crash/failure. you will always have a hard disk to fall back on !!! simple as that. i backed up my entire hard drive on 4 dvd's (but it was just a test mode, and i did not have the hdd loaded)
