Hard Drive brands

deathagent · Post by **deathagent** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:48 pm

I need to get a new HD for my computer 'cause fansubs (unliscensed, of course) take up a lot of space and AMVs don't help=) so i need more room but I have no idea what HD brands to buy and what to stay away from. Im looking for a HD that's at lest 120GB, but bigger is good too for my computer which is a gateway 500s with an 80GB HD, 1024MB ram, A cd/dvd-r drive (if that matters, and has a 2.4ghz processor pentium 4 processor

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:01 pm

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... 2000JB%20P

i want it too; i just have no money

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:03 pm

Seagate
Western digital
Maxtor
Hitachi

these are what I know of that seems to be pretty efficent.
But then again, Im not really a hardware expert :/

i want it too; i just have no money

Me too! In fact I actually have the same exact webpage saved on my computer; Im planning to get it sooner or later when I get some cash

deathagent · Post by **deathagent** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:08 pm

Very nice! arigatou gozaimasu

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:30 am

aznfs wrote:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... 2000JB%20P

i want it too; i just have no money

Yeah i got one of them.. i should have stuck with Seagate

ya know the old story.. just bad luck i guess

deathagent · Post by **deathagent** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:05 am

No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:49 pm

deathagent wrote:No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?

x2

I would like to know

Im planning to buy this and apparently I dont feel like getting ripped off if IT is inefficient/
But I trust tigerdirect, gepetto might you have fucked it up?

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:51 pm

Ok so i buy a 200G Western Digital, now ive had 3 other seagate hdd's before (got rid of them to upgrade space only!) so this time i decided to go WD, i get home install win xp (done that about ... 100000 times) i get it up and running and then while installing photoshop (like ive done many times) it decides to blue screen on me.

In the history of all my many months and like 2 years i think that ive had it, i have never ever had a blue screen with XP!. So i said well no matter i restarted and when it went to boot it crapped itself and spat up errors.
(I dont remember the exact words) so i went into xp recovery and used the fixmbr command, this didnt help at all.

I figured out eventually that the mbr had crapped itself, all i did was install a program and it blue screened.. well i went to their site and got a program that fixes the mbr it works now but im very weiry of using it with my amv's on it

Theres the story just my bad luck i guess, ill stick with seagate from now on haha.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:55 pm

AMVfreak wrote:
deathagent wrote:No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?
x2

I would like to know
Im planning to buy this and apparently I dont feel like getting ripped off if IT is inefficient/
But I trust tigerdirect, gepetto might you have fucked it up?

I've read somewhere that many people who've worked with multiple hard drives over a good length of time have at least one horror story of how their hard drive failed on them, and as a result they understandably never want to touch that brand again.

Personally, I see no reason to avoid Western Digital any more than any other brand. They've been a very well respected hard drive brand for years; I believe my father got WD's in our old 386 and the Pentium or two that came after it, and never had a problem with them. As well, I've had my WD-80 (not to be confused with WD-40) for about a year, <i>and it's got a 3-year warranty,</i> and no problems yet.

LovEnPeaCE · Post by **LovEnPeaCE** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:30 pm

aznfs wrote:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... 2000JB%20P

i want it too; i just have no money

if you look at http://www.newegg.com, you will find the same hard drive for about $100 if you don't feel like waiting on the rebate.