Hard Drive Recomndations?

[YanBooth]

I cannot decide between a 400GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8, another SATA 2, OR 16 MB cache HD, or Hitachi's 500GB SATA 2, 16MB Cache.

Do Hitachi make a decent hard drive? If so, the 500GB it is.

Yan

 

[Xiahou]

Seagate make very good hdds.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Hihatchi are decent, and the 500GB drives had some awsome speed in benchmarks.

IBM sold it's harddrive division to hihatchi FYI

 

[john2562]

Hitachis are great as well as seagate. I have a Hitahi HD in my desktop, it makes no sounds and has run great for me. I have Heard that the 500 GB gets hot so you may want to get a hard drive cooler.

 

[PoisonPorkchop]

I have heard some good things about the hitachi deskstars. Also, correct me if im wrong, but I have heard that harddrive coolers are loud and dont help very much...

 

[Dark_Sniper*]

I have heard some good things about the hitachi deskstars. Also, correct me if im wrong, but I have heard that harddrive coolers are loud and dont help very much...

YOu are right they really dont do a great job its jsut best to have a 80mm fan fanning on it then a hdd cooler.

 

[aspire]

if you have a water cooling loop koolance makes a thingy that water cools the hdddont want to find the link to pm me if you want it

 

[YanBooth]

YOu are right they really dont do a great job its jsut best to have a 80mm fan fanning on it then a hdd cooler.

LOL, I am good... My case... Mountain Mods U2-UFO, with 12 120mm fans, two of them directly on my hard drives, soon to be another 3 80mm's, I only have one ATM.

Thanks, I am gonna get the 500GB Hitachi.

Yan

 

[synergy]

Yea...everything I've read about those 500giggers is good. They perform well in benchmarks and actually utilize the SATA 2 standard (which most new sata 2 drives don't do).