Help Me Choose with Hard drive to get rid of first

[Harper]

Boss man wants be to build a refurbished 2nd hand machine for the warehouse.

Now I got an oportunity to get rid of one of my 40Gb Hard Drives that I have in my other computer.

I got a Maxtor 40Gb @ 7200 RPM and a Seagate 40Gb @ 7200 RPM in my other computer. One of them is going to get upgraded to a Seagate 80 Gb @ 7200 RPM.

Now the problem I face is this, which hard drive should I keep?

MAXTOR 40Gb :- Apart from being a Maxtor (a brand I do on trust to even pr0n), there is nothing wrong with the drive. However Maxtors in my eyes have always had a rather large failure rate.

SEAGATE 40Gb :- Worked fine..... except for the fact that 2 middle pins on the the molex connection are missing thanks to Hucules-The-Computer-Tech. Normally I trust Seagate, but with the fact that it's missing 2 pins on the molex connection, I am rather doughtful.

Both Hard Drive are 2 years old.

 

[Nubius]

well if it's missing the a couple pins out of the molex connector isn't that going to prevent it from working right at all?

I don't like maxtor but it seems like you'd have to go that route

 

[digitaloracle]

Am I right in assuming this is not a mission critical computer? I would just use the maxtor, and maybe have the seage jury rigged and gosted ready to replace it if it fails. I personally have a maxtor that I had my OS on for a year and now have a a second drive. Works fine thus far.

 

[Harper]

The Lessor Of 2 Evils

well if it's missing the a couple pins out of the molex connector isn't that going to prevent it from working right at all?

It's missing the 2 middle pins on the molex connection. And it has been working for the last 12 months.

Am I right in assuming this is not a mission critical computer?

Not really. However it is my Download box and the box that I author DVDs on. So it does see a lot of work.

At the end of the day, what ever drive I do keep is just going to have Windows Installed on it. So if the drive does die, the only thing I am going to loss i about 2 hours in re-install every thing.

 

[Harper]

Even though I hate Maxtors, I have deside to keep it. It's only the OS and program files that I am keep on it. So nothing I can't replace.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Well the chassis ground is the same thing with two pin's. Hold the harddrive up in the air and it wont work anymore.

Their's nothing really wrong with the seagate.

 

[Erich K]

I would defiantly keep the Seagate.