Internal HDD Suggestions Please

[Waterman2901]

I would appreciate advice / suggestion on what manufacturer of HDD I should go for.

Reliability, noise and heat would seem to be the important characteristics but suppliers don't tell me this, they only push what they happen to have in stock.

Anybody got any comments on their own HDD installation ?

waterman

[davecglo]

i think the recomended ones are

maxtor

seagate

western digital

m8 hope that helps a little

[rolion05]

hi,

i have tried so many but i stopped at maxtor diamond9: very good price,quality,storage capacity,very quiet and...no problems yet ! !

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...Max%20Plus%209

The 7200 RPM DiamondMax® Plus 9 hard drive is your solution for performance PCs with data- intensive applications such as network attached storage, home networking devices, audio, video and other multimedia applications. When your applications demand performance and reliability for your critical data, DiamondMax Plus 9 provides the highest capacity in its class. DiamondMax Plus 9 is equipped with fluid dynamic bearing motors for acoustic sensitive applications. This allows the drive to operate with extremely low sound output, an important feature for many applications. With Maxtor Shock Protection and Data Protection Systems on every drive, your drives and data are protected against operating and non-operating shock. DiamondMax Plus 9 offers performance leadership design with a 2MB or 8MB buffer, ATA/133 or SATA interface and capacities of 60, 80, 120, 160 and 200GB. This is a drive that delivers.

[Waterman2901]

Thanks M8's, just the advice I am looking for.

Time to go shopping.

waterman

[ice_pick]

Have put a New Seagate into My 7000 and it works Well...

Cheap, Fast & BIG!!

[gosforth]

try searching on google, there should be plenty of sites where they test harddrives with nice statistics over heat and noice.

[guna]

I have received my DM7025S with 250gig Western Digital yesterday. Very quite, but time have to tell.

Guna.

[bsofia]

What type of hard drive do I have to buy (newbie) for my new 7020? IDE or SATA? And what's the right size?

Thanks