HD suggestions

[[AK]Abaddon]

I just bought a 500-gig Western Digital a few weeks ago for $135. It's amazing how prices have dropped.

[[AK]Hylander]

I've purchased many brands of hard drives from Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, and IBM. The only drive I ever had die on me was the old IBM.

In my primary rig now I have a Western Digital Caviar SE16 (320GB, 7200RPM) that I paid $99 for at newegg.com last year and it's been flawless and quiet. It's now only $75.

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That being said, in my 2nd PC which also serves as my personal file server and FTP server, I have 2 - 250GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives with 8mb Cache setup in raid for the last couple years and they are very quiet and work flawlessly as well.

[[AK]The Beast]

I've purchased many brands of hard drives from Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, and IBM. The only drive I ever had die on my was the old IBM.

Oh yeah--forgot about the old IBM (rebranded Toshiba) DeathStar--I mean DeskStar--hard drives. So bad that Toshiba was hit with a class-action suit over them.