Western Digital offers 3 years warrenty, and there 8MB buffer models are the best right now.
I use Maxtor in my Beige G3, but will be going Western Digital next time.
They *only* default to 3-year warranties on the 8 MB cache special edition HDDs, otherwise you have to pay $15 to extend the standard 1-year warranty.
All of the previous half dozen 3.5" HDDs I've purchased have been Western Digital or Seagate. As for laptop HDDs, I recently bought a Hitachi TravelStar.
Have a Seagate Barracuda (forgot the specific model) 60GB in my Cube. Its very quiet and performs well.
For great performance I recommend the Western Digital ("WD") JB drives (8MB Cache). They are loud and run hot in respect to other ATA drives, not a problem in towers.
Theres also the WD Raptor. Its 10,000rpm and comes in 36.7GB with 5 year warranty but requires a Serial ATA controller card. If your in a tower its as fast as ATA goes until you look at SCSI.
I just bought a western digital drive... and it sux bad I bought it in may it broke within 3 weeks no problem I thought did the RMA thing they send me a reconditioned one... I called and bitched them out and they said sorry anyways so I used the reconditioned one... now 2 weeks later its broken as well, and I just recieved another one I gotta put in... and send this one back. WTF! the cycle will never end i bet, and I can't afford the cd cost its giving me.
Yeah, sorry to hear about the situtation Kraig. But ast3r3x hit the nail on the head. I've heard horror stories about every drive company. If its name brand, you have a good chance of it working for you.
Oh, and CubeDude be sure NOT to purchase a drive over 120GB. The cube doesn't have 48-bit addressing and can't format a drive over that size. Just an FYI.
Oh, and CubeDude be sure NOT to purchase a drive over 120GB. The cube doesn't have 48-bit addressing and can't format a drive over that size. Just an FYI.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that limitation, but I probably couldn't afford anything over 100 gigs anyways.
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I use Maxtor in my Beige G3, but will be going Western Digital next time.
Originally posted by Mac Write
Western Digital offers 3 years warrenty, and there 8MB buffer models are the best right now.
I use Maxtor in my Beige G3, but will be going Western Digital next time.
They *only* default to 3-year warranties on the 8 MB cache special edition HDDs, otherwise you have to pay $15 to extend the standard 1-year warranty.
All of the previous half dozen 3.5" HDDs I've purchased have been Western Digital or Seagate. As for laptop HDDs, I recently bought a Hitachi TravelStar.
Have a Seagate Barracuda (forgot the specific model) 60GB in my Cube. Its very quiet and performs well.
For great performance I recommend the Western Digital ("WD") JB drives (8MB Cache). They are loud and run hot in respect to other ATA drives, not a problem in towers.
Theres also the WD Raptor. Its 10,000rpm and comes in 36.7GB with 5 year warranty but requires a Serial ATA controller card. If your in a tower its as fast as ATA goes until you look at SCSI.
Originally posted by IonYz
Oh, and CubeDude be sure NOT to purchase a drive over 120GB. The cube doesn't have 48-bit addressing and can't format a drive over that size. Just an FYI.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that limitation, but I probably couldn't afford anything over 100 gigs anyways.