suggestions on who to buy my new hdd from?

[Mizugori]

alright my seagate 160 GB SATA just died mysteriously, so im a little skeptical. i thought seagate was the best. im going to be buying a replacement; any suggestions on who to go with? im looking on newegg, and the big players seem to be hitachi, maxtor, western digital, seagate, and samsung. who should i go with? nothing, and i mean nothing, pisses me off more than a dead drive because realistically you can never keep up with backups enough to prevent losing some stuff you care about. but i also don't want it to be very loud.

thanks!

[diablo111]

Isn't your Seagate still under warranty? RMA that sucker!

As for who to go with for a new drive? Western Digital has never let me down.

[xonik]

Sigh...

I guess you learned the hard way that there is no "best" or "most reliable" hard drive, despite what anyone will tell you.

Anyways, aren't you going to request an RMA from Seagate? You owe it to yourself to at least get that replacement from Seagate. If you want to look elsewhere, Samsung has probably the quietest drives in recent years. Otherwise, Maxtor and Hitachi have reasonably quiet hard drives.

[Mizugori]

i bought it used, but ive had it for months so i don't suspect anything there. but it does mean no RMA.

now, here are two that im looking at; why does the 200gb have a 5yr warranty and its only OEM, while the 160GB retail only has a 1 year warranty?? i don't understand! i wonder which one i should go with...sigh...please someone make a suggestion

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-033&depa=1

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-038&depa=1

[ninethreeeleven]

Did Seagate just bump up thier warranty to 5 years? If so that may be a drive that Newegg got before they changed the length of the warranty. Does that make sense? Anyway both of those would be good to go since thier the REAL SATA drives, not the PATA with the PATA-SATA switch.