Western Digital or Maxtor?

[sono]

hi guys, I'm looking to buy a new hard drive around 200GB Serial ATA, and the most important thing i'm looking for is speed and reliability. Which one do you recommend, Western Digital or Maxtor?

Also which is more important, buffer size or RPM?

How much difference is there between 8MB and 16MB Buffer. And with 7,200rpm and 10,000rpm.

[SyntaxTerror]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

Never ever look past a seagate. Over 15 years I've had the least amount of problems with these drives.

[feather]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

Hitachi for performance, Seagate for warranty

[Kamal]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

between both of your options, I'd choose a WD, my last 4 HDs have been WDs and I've not had any probs with them. Also both buffer size and RPM are responsible for performance..... the Buffer is where the most important / most accessed data from the HD is stored so instead of the HD having to search on the entire platter (the bigger the platter the longer the search) for the data, its faster to pull it from the buffer which is lightning fast in comparison. Also the RPM of the platters means the platters are spinning much faster and data is accessed quicker. So you wanna get the largest buffer and fastest RPM.

[dvs]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

just bought a G-Technology Firewire 800,, its so fast, moves 1 gig in 40 seconds

[FM]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

shop hard; you can find one of 'em for around $110 if you look good.

[FM]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

THIS is a hard drive

[Kamal]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

a crash waiting to happen imo

[godisadj]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

I would recommend the Western Digital. I bought a 100 gb Maxtor and it died within a month The RMA process was awesome, but it was an invconvenience losing lots of data.

[miketpoto]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

just bought a G-Technology Firewire 800,, its so fast, moves 1 gig in 40 seconds

sweet Jay.... We got a bunch of those in at work.... They are shiny and metal.... And fast...

And we named the "big" one Terri-byte.... its odd having that size of a firewire drive, let alone pretty portable still....

gotta love that firewire 800..... and the ports/cables are so nice and sleek too

[SupaLindo]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

picked up the maxtar 120g hard drive about 6 months ago. I have not yet have one problem.

[asdf_admin]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

Western for me if I had to pick between the two. I am really a Seagate fan. They just make remarkable products.

[Weizy]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

just picked up the maxtor one touch 300 GB external hard drive with combo USB/Fireware capability and it works great! i highly recommend it...

i finally have gotten rid of my box full of ancient mp3s and put them into my new toy!

[Elements]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

My personnal preferences:
Seagate
Hitachi
Western Digital
Maxtor

[dtgunslinger]

Re: Western Digital or Maxtor?

Seagate, simply and easy.