what type of hard drive?

[drakee90]

what is the best type of hard drive to buy? i was thinking of a 80g or 120g hard drive.....

[NealT]

There is an old computing addage that goes somewhat like this:

You can NEVER have a fast enough processor...
You can NEVER have a enough memory...
You can NEVER have a big enough hard drive...
If one is good, two is even better...

In short...get the most you can afford (and stretch your budget to get even bigger)...

[philgorp]

what do you want upgrade? add on? external?
if you want an upgrade your main
"keep it small if its your main ive been told"

i keep my program files on a 20g
as far as an add on, my second drive is for storage whatever you can afford is the rule
now when it comes to external i just bought an acomdata 120 for about 200 bucks
storage
also ive been running mostly western digitals
ive heard good and bad about all the different brands mostly customer relations

[Pebcak]

Well. It's all up to you what you want... I've got an 80 and 60 GB Western Digital "in" my computer. I also have a 30 GB portable laptop HD 80, 120 and last but not least a 160GB protable (full size HD) Oh yeah.. The wife also has an 80 GB in her computer that I use as well.. :)

Funny thing is that the more space I have the faster I fill it up.. Out of the 610 GB I have at my disposal I think I have about 60 GB free on all of them combined...

I need to get one of the new 250 GB's that are out... Running out of room.

But back to the original question.. For me I always choose Western Digital (personnal preference) because I have had two IBM drives burn up on me. Since then I've always stuck with Western Digital.. I have heard from plenty of people that Maxtor isn't bad either...

[Shades Coolray]

I have a Maxtor and I like it, Seagate is good too, but I think they're more expensive. Whatever you get, just get one with an 8 megabyte buffer, they're faster.

[taddzilla]

I agree with every one here, and that get the most you can afford with an 8mb cache and 7200 rpm.

As far as brands, I have owned both maxtor and western digital and been very happy with both.

[drakee90]

Thanx....yea i heard some good stuff about western digital

well thanks for the advice...i think im gonna get the 120g external wester digital

[g-smooth2k]

Western Digital is a Good Brand to go with.

I have several WD hard drives and still working condition.
Maxtor makes good drives as well.

[rastagard]

Shew. I just finished installing a new 120 gig Maxtor. Cost me $60 after rebates. I had to juggle 5 partitions on 3 drives, 4 including the new one. I moved, deleted, formatted, resized & ghosted my ass off today............


I have both WD and Maxtor. I prefer the Maxtor slightly, they are built just a little better. But I couldn't tell any difference performance wise.