I'm looking to take advantage of the S-ATA RAID on my motherboard, and was looking at 60-80 GB drives at Newegg. At 80GB there are several drives around (or under) $80 and was wondering if something other than my usual two (Maxtor and Western Digital) were worth considering...
My choices are Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung, and Seagate.
All have 8MB buffers, similar seek times, and are priced within a few bucks of each other.
Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20349 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:54:15 Post Subject:
I just ordered 2 80GB Seagate S-ATA drives... Hope to get them SOON as another Maxtor Plus 8 drive just died (thats 2 in about 2 months). RAID 1 for me from now on for any machine with anything remotely important on it.
My main machine still has 2 of these Maxtor drives in it running RAID 1, and my confidence is low. Besides the other two being dead... The array kept dropping the primary drive Fri/Sat, and although it has been okay for a couple days that isn't cool at all!
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