Help me choose a SATA drive

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What is the best sata harddrive to get as a backup storage drive with an asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard. Plan on rinning it on my promise sata raid 1 conection on motherboard due to i have my 2x36 raptors on the intel ich5r connections.

After looking closer and reading many reviews, I have come to the conclusion that I will probably go with the Hitachi 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive due to the following reasons:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-145-047&depa=1

Hitachi 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
1) has a 3 yr. warranty
2) cost only $83
3) excellent reviews
http://envynews.com/index.php?ID=562
http://www.storagereview.com/articl...25VLSA80_1.html
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20031001/

Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-145-051&depa=1
1) listed as having a 1 yr. warranty
2) cost $99.50

Ideas and suggestions appreciated?
 
The Hitachi is a good choice - I have two of 'em in my new system; very fast, very quiet.

Spend the extra $16.00 and get the 160GB drive.....no question.....:cool:

Regards - B.B.S.
 
FYI Hitachi bought their HD unit from IBM.. and we all know about IBM's deathstar models...
 
doormat said:
FYI Hitachi bought their HD unit from IBM.. and we all know about IBM's deathstar models...
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...don't forget prior to the horrible reliability problems with the 75 / 60GXP, IBM's were among the fastest drives out there. Hitachi's drives have always been quite good, too....

The way I look at it, with the going over these products got after the sale of the drive division, these drives are quite probably the most looked at, evaluated, tested, most over-engineered drives you can buy today. I sure like mine....:cool:

Regards - B.B.S.
 
BlindedByScience said:
...don't forget prior to the horrible reliability problems with the 75 / 60GXP, IBM's were among the fastest drives out there. Hitachi's drives have always been quite good, too....

The way I look at it, with the going over these products got after the sale of the drive division, these drives are quite probably the most looked at, evaluated, tested, most over-engineered drives you can buy today. I sure like mine....:cool:

Regards - B.B.S.
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The Hitachi drives do seem pretty nice, but I've still had bad luck with their laptop drives. We'll see though, everyone I know who has one of the newer desktop drives has had no problems with them and they perform very well.
 
right now i'm using a seagate 200gb 8mb cache sata drive. It runs quiet and is very fast. i have not read much about the hitachi drives but they must be just as good. but the big difference with seagate is that you get a 5 year warranty. Which is awesome!
 
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