ok, I figure I'd start this thread just incase you see a good deal and want to share it with everyone we dont have a million threads with three posts each.

Ok, I just found a really good deal for a 200 GB HDD

here is the link:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=423018

i decieded to pin this so it doesent get lost in all the threads.

oh and this is pretty handy too, http://www.resellerratings.com/deals.pl

http://www.svc.com

Silicon Valley Compucycle

They have good prices on a lot of internal cables (and probably other stuff, but that's mainly what I bought from them). Rounded colored fancy IDE cables of very extravagant layouts and lengths are priced extremely reasonable. I've got a handful of them in my machine as I type and they work great. Highly recommended.

Wow, prices on the 200GB HDD are dropping fast. I just picked one up for $90 today.

http://www.circuit...d/productDetail.do

check it out

http://www.newegg....ogs&ATT=Maxtor30au

Posted by Kirby check it out http://www.newegg....ogs&ATT=Maxtor30au

Hmm...

Maxtor should be avoided (Like IBM/Hitachi) - I've, alone, had several die in the past year (I sillily switched to them from IBM after the DeathStar series, now I'm a WD/Seagate fan). They are also the only company I know of that specifically makes the ultra-shitty ultra-cheap drives for use in DELL and other lowest-quality pcs.

If it were my money, I'd go for this instead:
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s - OEM

Sure, you loose 50gigs, but while the Maxtor is 150mbps, the WD is twice the speed at 300mbps (and has all the other features of SATA-II like NCQ - Native Command Queuing - where the commands are first cached, then put in a more logical order, and then executed, so instead of the drive whipping around the platter 50 times to seek one file, it smoothly goes over the drive once like a record, already knowing where the data is and the linear way to find it. It makes performance faster and also inproves the lifetime) and the price difference means you get free 3-day shipping on the twice-as-fast WD.

http://www.newegg....em=N82E16822144701



As a side note:
Wait a second:
[14:50] Beryl: External 40 gig drive = 180$
[14:53] Beryl: and for that same 180$, on the same site, I can get a sexy slim Aluminium Hard Drive USB2.0 case AND a "Western Digital 320gig SPECIAL EDITION RAID EDITION" drive
[14:53] Beryl: 40gigs for the cheapest crap versus 320gigs for the most advanced you can buy. Any idiot that buys an external drive like that instead of the super-best for the same price is a complete fucktard.

my 100 gig maxtor is still kicking and has been for 2 years now, i also have at least 10 ranging from 1-20 gig that i pulled from dumpster PCs and they all work fine. I will however, back you up on SG and WD drives, thaet are amazing. WD drives are my main drives in all my PCs

Posted by Kirby my 100 gig maxtor is still kicking and has been for 2 years now,

That means its about time to start backing things up.

I've had mixed results with Maxtors which I belive relates to heat. In normal rather poorly ventilated desktop cases they drop like flies. We replace at least a couple a week at work. WDs and Seagates in the same cases do fine. In well ventilated servers they run great for years at a time; I've never had one fail and they get pounded on way more in those roles. I even had one 10 GB Maxtor that I retired from my file server to have it die within weeks of being put into a desktop case.

Right now a good percentage of my storage is on Maxtors and so far so good. Sometimes the prices are just too good to pass up. However, I still make regular backups.

I have a 120mm fan blowing on both of my maxtors and my WD drives. Both companies make some top quality HDD's

Off topic a bit, I got an old Pentium Pro yesterday and was looking for the hard drive, I found it under the CR-ROM drive, the damn thing was 5 1/4" big! 3gb Quantum Fireball

Posted by Jesus Jones 3gb Quantum Fireball

I've got some of those lying around here somewhere, they all seem to have some "blackish" marks on them. The "fireball" name fits them perfectly.

Fujitsu used to make great hard drives but they are garage now. I have several 2,4 and 6 gig Fujitsu drives and they all still work good. The 2 gig one is in a file server backing up all accouting work on the terminal machine.

I also have a really old 800Meg WD drive that I use in my Printer Server. The drive itself comes from an old office computer which was never turned off. The drive is at least 10 years old and still runs smoothly. Not even slightly noisy. There is a reason why I only use WD in all of my systems.

I just picked up a new Maxtor - I've avoided them for ages, but for the price...

250GB SATA w/16MB cache for $99.99 (retail box, at Fry's). This sucker flies. Noisy though, compared to my old Seagate Barracudas. Overall the system is way, way faster.

I'm keeping my Seagate 120GB UDMA/100 8MB cache in the system to back up anything important (porn, music, and my photography, in that order ;) )

Posted by The Bean is Grounded I just picked up a new Maxtor - I've avoided them for ages, but for the price... 250GB SATA w/16MB cache for $99.99 (retail box, at Fry's). This sucker flies. Noisy though, compared to my old Seagate Barracudas. Overall the system is way, way faster. I'm keeping my Seagate 120GB UDMA/100 8MB cache in the system to back up anything important (porn, music, and my photography, in that order ;) )

ive been meaning to get one of those to replace my ide 200gb WD hard drive. or at least to take advantage of my SATA.

Posted by Kbasa ive been meaning to get one of those to replace my ide 200gb WD hard drive. or at least to take advantage of my SATA.

I been running 5 Hitachi SATA2 250 GB drives for over half a year on SATA2 ports. They're quiet, run cool, and come with excellent support hardware, and sell for a century.

BUMP, what yall got? extra parts etc.