S-ATA Drive Manufacturers

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:38:01 Post Subject: S-ATA Drive Manufacturers

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.

Any experiences? Suggestions? Thanks... Cool

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:56:00 Post Subject:

I take it you don't want the Raptor drives?? If not... then just choose your favorite HDD maker... That's about all it comes down too.

Spire · Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:46:07 Post Subject:

I believe Seagate is currently the only manufacturer that offers TRUE SATA drives.

As in, not adapted on board.

If you notice most SATA drives have provisions for both SATA power and Molex connectors. THe Seagates do not because they are native SATA drives.

I could be off base here, but I do know that I have had tremendous good benches and luck with SATA Seagates.

I have returned to Newegg a total of 4 Hitachi / deathstar SATA drives in the last 3 months.

The Raptors are of course spendy and I haven't noticed huge numbers form them, kind of dissapointed.

Me, I would order Seagates everytime, at this moment.

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:49:35 Post Subject:

Seagate all the way for me.

**Doctor Feelgood** · 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!