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Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Stryker on November 10, 2002, 08:53:02 PM

Hi there,

Just wondering whats the biggest hard disk you can get for Â£100 or less, and from where?

Come on, with all those pron lovers in dMw I'm sure someone has a recommendation :-)

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: smite on November 10, 2002, 09:06:01 PM

this one from IBM 120 gig for Â£116
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Onl..._Drives_37.html (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_IBM_IDE_Drives_37.html)

OR

This one from Western digital 200 gig for Â£300
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Onl...#ahd_2d002_2dwd (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Western_Digital_IDE_Drives_74.html#ahd_2d002_2dwd)

You Decide ..i wonder which one u will pick

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Dr Sadako on November 10, 2002, 09:48:05 PM

IBM ... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!

Stay away from the 120 GXP series. It is known to crash.

Go with a Seagate Barracuda V, Western Digital or Samsung. They have all done well in tests.

I am going to buy a Seagate B V 120GB with 8 MB cache.

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Armitage on November 10, 2002, 10:05:32 PM

120 gig

Thats a lot of porn :)

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: sheepy on November 10, 2002, 10:56:44 PM

try here
http://www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Hard_Drives.html (http://www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Hard_Drives.html)
they r VERY competitive

my pr0n HD corupted, well what do u expect 4 2 pints of stella, im going to try and recover the drive space some time, that 18 gig is worth a bit of effort

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: DogMeat on November 10, 2002, 11:07:07 PM

120Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Ref: HDDMXT120GB72
7200 RPM - 1 Yr Warranty - OEM Plain Boxed
Online Price Â£106.87Â£125.57 Including VAT at 17.5%

//www.cclcomputers.co.uk

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Stryker on November 11, 2002, 11:19:50 AM

ta chaps, that gives me some to go on

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: OldBloke on November 11, 2002, 12:02:38 PM

Quoteta chaps, that gives me some to go on

Oh! Thought you were going to put them in your PC 8O

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: smilodon on November 11, 2002, 05:42:10 PM

maxtor 40gb Â£30 (stuffed in my sock drawer)
seagate 20gb Â£10 ( under the bed somewhere)

choice :lol:

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Anonymous on November 11, 2002, 06:39:00 PM

QuoteIBM ... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!

Stay away from the 120 GXP series. It is known to crash.

I thought it was the 60GXP range that was crud. The 120 GXP was brought out to replace it. I have 2 x 60Mb 120GXP disks in a RAID 0 and they are excellent (60 to 80MB/s transfer from the RAID)

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Dr Sadako on November 11, 2002, 06:44:48 PM

Quote
QuoteIBM ... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!

Stay away from the 120 GXP series. It is known to crash.
I thought it was the 60GXP range that was crud. The 120 GXP was brought out to replace it. I have 2 x 60Mb 120GXP disks in a RAID 0 and they are excellent (60 to 80MB/s transfer from the RAID)[/b]

At my work many of the 120GXP HDs have crashed and burned ... just from experience. Nothing else.

Title: Best value hard disk?
Post by: Stryker on November 12, 2002, 12:39:24 PM

QuoteNeutron"]maxtor 40gb Â£30 (stuffed in my sock drawer)
seagate 20gb Â£10 ( under the bed somewhere)

choice :lol:

ooh the 40GB one sounds ok... why you got big HDs lying around? not that I'm complaining :-)

Dead Men Walking

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