hard drive

**Blank Verse** · July 5th, 2002, 17:29

Ok, I currently only have a 4 gig hard drive shared between 4 people (I know

). SO I've finally decided to get a new hard drive. My question is, when do you figure I have so much space that it's overkill? I don't really want to spend more than I have to. Also, should I go for internal or external?

**Bruce** · July 5th, 2002, 17:40

Firstly, to answer your second question, definately internal. Much cheaper, and also faster.

Now to answer what size, I guess that really depends on what you intend to use it for. Do you want to store lots of large audio or video files? If so, I'd probably recommedn an 80 GB hdd or larger. Prices are pretty cheap right now. You could get a 40 GB for around $80 or an 80GB for about $110.

I'd really recommend not getting anything less than 40 GB because it really isn't gonna be any cheaper. 20 GB and 40 GB are about the smae price right now, so you'd be better off with the 40, or larger if you want.

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One other thing I should add, is that you'd be better off with a 7200 RPM hdd rather than a slower 5400 RPM. The prices aren't much different, but the performance would be noticable. Also, for the love a man kind, stay far, far away from any IBM hard drive. Avoid them like the plague, which apparently they came down with. That's the reason you'll find them much cheaper than other brands right now. They have some major overheating problems and are very likely to self-destruct, sending all of your data into generation X (

). Seagate and Maxtor drives are great. The WD special edition drives with 8 MB cache are good too.

**Blank Verse** · July 5th, 2002, 17:43

Do they sell them in 60 gb? That I think would probably be perfect.

**Bruce** · July 5th, 2002, 17:48

Yes you can get 60 GB drives. You can pick up a Maxtor for about $100.

**Blank Verse** · July 5th, 2002, 17:53

alright, I'll go check it out. I need to go into the city tomorrow anyway, I'll check it out then. And yeah, I know all about the IBM drives. My uncle got burned that way.

**nickmahon** · July 5th, 2002, 18:41

Originally posted by Bruce
Also, for the love a man kind, stay far, far away from any IBM hard drive. Avoid them like the plague, which apparently they came down with. That's the reason you'll find them much cheaper than other brands right now. They have some major overheating problems and are very likely to self-destruct, sending all of your data into generation X

Guess what my C Drive is?

**Coolin** · July 5th, 2002, 18:57

I have an IBM hard drive and I have absolutely no problems with them. I've been using this hard drive non-stop for two years already.

**guitarnerd** · July 5th, 2002, 20:30

Yeah I haven't had many problems with the IBM drives but I have heard things...Either way nothing beats a seagate barracuda drive definatly worth it 7200 rpm and a 500mbps internal speed so they are incredibly fast. I believe the fastes IDE drives made...with the exception of ata-133 drives. But I don't know do they make the barracuda for ata-133 yet?

Anyway Stick with Seagate if you can and look on pricewatch. I know if you have one around you COSCO has Maxtor 80gig 7200rpm drives for I think $100

**trenzterra** · July 5th, 2002, 22:36

Now that you talk about IBM drives, i just noticed that I'm using an IBM 20GB HDD but no problems (yet).

**Daniel** · July 5th, 2002, 22:42

I'm using a Seagate 7200rpm 40gb harddrive....no problems yet.

**Dean** · July 6th, 2002, 18:43

Seagate 7200 RPM 80Gig 18Free...great fun

**dawizman** · July 6th, 2002, 20:05

I got a Maxtor 100gig, with 89.3 gig's free

**Who?** · July 6th, 2002, 20:39

i have 2 20GB IBM hard drives in my lan server that are about 2 years old and we have no problems at all with them.

also didn't IBM stop selling hard drives because they were going to split it off in to another company?

**trenzterra** · July 6th, 2002, 21:07

Originally posted by Who?
i have 2 20GB IBM hard drives in my lan server that are about 2 years old and we have no problems at all with them.

also didn't IBM stop selling hard drives because they were going to split it off in to another company?

Phew then my new laptop doesn't need to come with IBM anymore.