What Brand hard drive to choose?

[iNeb]

I'm looking to get a 60GB 7200 HD for under 100$

Is WD safe, the best or what?

I heard good things

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I only use WD, however you will find everyone on here likes namely Maxtor and WD for IDE drives.

Here is a thread that will give you some opinions.

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43849.html

[iNeb]

WD 60GB IDE 7200 RM for 89$ via google...

3year warenty

[PresterJohn]

sounds like a good choice...

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3306462

100$ for a 80Gig 8Mb buffer 7200 boxed.

[iNeb]

What do buffers do?

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Ok, AFAIK, Buffers are best on a defragged drive, but when you access let's say file1.txt, it will read the file1.txt and continue to fill the buffer (continuous read for 8Mb) then when you access file2.txt that was the next file, it already has it read and can deliver it from it's own cache to your computer rather then seek for the file from the disk which takes a bit longer.

[JPMiller]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...fer=pricewatch
How about $87 Free ship?

[ben-the-slacker]

If you've got a Best Buy near you, you can go grab a WD120gb Caviar 7200rpm 8mb cache for $80 after rebate. $160 - $80rebate = $80.

[Nighthawk]

I'm running both a Western Digital and a Maxtor hard drive in my system right now. The Western Digital's been a bit flaky, but I haven't had any problems with Maxtor lately.