First of all respect for your great forum!

I hope that you can and will help me, I did ask for help in some of ours forums, but I didn’t get the right information!

I’m looking for a new hard drive, but I can’t decide me what should I buy, I know that 250GB will be enough for me, because this is not a now computer and I will have it for web browsing and shearing files, so I need a very fast and quite drive!

I haven’t support for SATA, so I should by IDE drive, I decide my self between:

-Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB (HDS722525VLAT80/08K0466)
8MB Cache • 8.5ms • 3 year guarantee (PRICE: 82 eurov)

- Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB retail (HDS722525VLAT80/08K0466-RT)
8MB Cache • 8.5ms • 3 year guarantee (PRICE: 110 eurov)

- Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB (6B250R0/6L250R0)
16MB Cache • 3 year guarantee • L-Serie (PRICE: 81 eurov)

- Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB retail (L14R250)
16MB Cache • 2 year guarantee (PRICE: 99 eurov)

- Maxtor MaXLine III 250GB (7B250R0/7L250R0)
16MB Cache • 5 year guarantee • L-Serie (PRICE: 96 eurov)

One friend advice me Hitachi T7K250 but I don’t know if there drives are just SATA or SATA II or IDE!

So I hope that you will help me by the decision!

THX!

no hands on maxtor on my side!
better look for the great Seagate or Western Digital
Seagate are the best IDE Drives in my eyes
silent and fast

later more :-)

THX for your fast post!

Hmm, a lot of people and a lot of experiences! A lot of people recommend me 7K250 (T7K250) or MaxLine III.

I woun't invest any more in this computer, because I will buy a new one to the end of the year and this drive will stay in this computer, because for web browsing, file sharing and storing I think that IDE drive will make his job very good!

So if I will by a SATA drive I have to buy a SATA controler, whitch cost around 50 euros and it's to much for 5 years old computor!

I hope that my old ASUS bord will recognized it, because I tested only 160GB and it's works!

One way to get around this would be to buy a SATA II hard drive and then buy a cheap sata to ide convertor to convert the ide channel to sata II

This would give you future upgradeability, as your new machine will most likely support SATA II

http://www.extrememhz.com/idetosata-p1.shtml

The above link is to a device im thinking of. The only trouble with it is it only has one port, so your only going to be able to have 1 hard disk on the channel.

I'm also with Dark Biene with regards to Seagate. I find them the most reliable, quick and silent drives for the desktop market thats available. My seagate 120Gb 7200.7 drive sustains a 60Mb/second transfer rate, whic is pretty fast.

Peav

go for seagate !
maxtor diamond max also seems nice but go for seagate !

also I would not mix around ...
if you want a HDD for an old computer
just get a cheaper IDE drive and don't wast money on sata and a converter
thats BS
get a normal PATA disk
check out
http://www.geizhals.at/deutschland/?sour...fs=seagate
and when you go for a new computer some time ... get a new SATA disk
this will save you a lot of trouble and will cost you nothing or even save you money
and when you go for a new computer you can also use the latest technology then ... (the 7200.9 series is on the way)

until then get a .7 or .8 with PATA

Mertsch, THX for your help

I have found this http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/hgs...dex.x?pg=1

I'm very confused about all this HDD!

DiamondMax 10 Maxtor 250GB 16 buffer
is a EXCELLENT hard disk

I have a IDE one (6B250R0) and a SATA (6B250S0) of these and are silent and fast for their kind !!!
Do not listen what other say



Forget the SATA 2 and SATA it will not benefit you in anything
it's more hype and for benchmark scores than for true performance

You can learn what Hard disk model is the IDE one by visiting the http://www.maxtor.com just to be sure

just updated the thread with a Poll :-)

@sotos:
Do not listen what other say


everybody is making his own experiences....
and most are very happy with Seagate, also myself

most of all is said....
SATA (II) isn´t that performance jumper...
u can easily go with PATA , (i don´t update to SATA, till SATA II is "THAT HD"), but what u can do is to do RAID0, 2x120GB,go for FASTREK TX2 or something, cheap and really good for that price and u really got a nice performance with PATA

Everyone has his own favorite, his experiences and his trubles, so it's very hard to decide what to buy, because as I write everyone has his own favorite!

SATA is a very very good thing
I really do recommend everybody who owns a system capable of handling SATA to use it ... its much more comfortable
indeed there is no performance gain since HDDs are simply to slow
but it has a lot of advantages and I have seen no negative point up to now

if you want to go for raid there is nothing more easy then SATA not to forget the awesome "hot plug and play" feature

and since drives do cost nearly the same as IDE drivers there is absolutely no reason not to go for SATA when you have the choice to do so ...
e.g. buy a new motherboard will give you automatically SATA so why shouldn't you stick with PATA
but in case of an slight upgrade where SATA needs to be introduced its not worth to spend the money - indeed

Just bought a SAMSUNG SPINPOINT here for my Linux Box...because of the old Drive it's very noisy
hope i can say something about noise (and speed under Linux) :-)

btw: this is my first non Seagate/WD Harddisk :-)

jhuhu....today i recieved my new HD :-)

mhhh....sound....
u can hear it in intensive work
but in normal work/idle....NOTHING
really nice.....

and speed....
i tested my old with hdparm in linux

Timing buffered disk reads: ca 20-25MB/s

and my new one:
Timing buffered disk reads: 58MB/s

this is again....REALLY NICE!!!

reason: 8MB Cache , 7200Rpm, SATA 2 (i can use sata1 only )