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hrt_rulz01
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Hi Guys,
My friend is buying a new hard drive this week. It's out of a:
-80Gb 7200rpm Westerndigital 800JB 8Mb ($115)
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-80Gb 7200 Seagate Barracuda ($110)
He wants to get the westerndigital but I thought Id ask you guys first!
Thanks!
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IF the seagate is only a 2meg cache, go the WD, otherwise i trust seagate.
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hrt_rulz01
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i'm not quite sure but I think somewhere i read it was 6Mb. I told my friend to get the Seagate but he wants the WD because its 8Mb buffer. im trying to tell him that the seagate will give him better performance all round.
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Personally I prefer Western Digital drives, never let me down.
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i have owned just about every diff brand of drive that you can get and i have learnt two things.
1) WD has been the most reliable
2) Maxtor are not even good for a doorstop
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I chose WD, after my old 4Gb harddrive that have survived most S**t that can be thrown on a harddrive during daily use.
Heatshock, impact shock and stuff like that, it still runs.
Now I have retired a 6Gb IBM and replaced it with a 80 Gb WD, WD all the way now.
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He needs to go with the Western Digital. Its only $5 more, and I've heard that Seagate is ok(hey, I've got one and it works great), but Western Digital is typically the best. And if the Western Digital has an 8 meg cache, and the Seagate has only a 6 meg cache, he would get worse performance with the Seagate, regardless of quality. Tell him to with the WD.
PS: Those prices aren't so great...or is that UK? I'm only asking cause I got a 120 gig 7200 rpm with 8 meg cache Seagate hard drive for $70 after an awesome rebate from Best Buy.
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what about the:
-80Gb WD 8Mb
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-80Gb Seagate SATA (8Mb)
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does the mother board have SATA?, if you are not sure post the model number/name.
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the mother board is a Gigabyte 8IPE1000 I865 (865 CHIPSET).
-this is what it says in the stats (S478,I865PE,800FSB,DUAL CHL DDR400, 8USB2,SATA, AC97, AGP8X)
so i guess it does!
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In general the seek times on Segates are a little better than WD... this goes for IDE and SATA. If your friend wants to spend a little more getting a SATA 7200rpm drive then by all means do it, but he most likely won't be able to notice the difference between the 7200rpm IDE drives.
But I still choose WD because they're more reliable in my opinion. There's also 5 year warranties on my WD Raptors.... doesn't get much better than that.
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i think he chose the seagate. but i might get the 120GB WD 8Mb
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I've had 2 WD HDD fail on me, having only owned them around 6 months each time, both the same 40gb model, never tried seagate, Im runnin a maxtor so far so good.
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got a 300gb & a 200gb & had countless 40s n 120gb maxtors no problems @ all
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