Good and cheap 7200 rpm hard drive.

[davage]

Thats all thanx in adv.

[AndreBranco]

i plan on buying a new hd for my system the ibm deskstar gxp 14.4gb 7200rpm cost $299.95 someone told me that ibm makes the best and fastest hds available on the market (expensive but fast http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif )

my system:
celeron 400,soyo 6ke
my hd:
wd ac26400 6.4gb (very slow http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif only 256k cache)

[sKiTjacKsOn]

Drives are very cheap now. I go to computer shows all the time and see the IBM 7200 DS for $125-130 for the 10G drive.
This drives is very quiet, fast, and overclockes VERY well.

[This message has been edited by sKiTjacKsOn (edited 07-17-99).]

[jeffgordon24]

www.buy.com has a western digital 9.1 ata/66 7200rpm with 2mb buffer for $159

[AndreBranco]

i think western digital hds are not made as well as ibm harddrives ibm makes the best there are (more expensive but fast and well constructed) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Stan]

Just 3 letters :IBM !

Stan

[Roy]

www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com)

The WD has a larger buffer than the IBM, and probably runs cooler.

[AuraEdge]

for lower end HD's
a WD 4GB for 50 bucks
www.staples.com (http://www.staples.com)
WD is offering a 30 dollar mail in rebate on all HDD's til July 31 (not sure what stores this apply too but staples is one of them)

[toms111]

There is a 10GB IDE Maxtor 7200 RPM $149.00 at: http://www.teamexcess.com/

[Zonker]

Let's see good and cheap.... here's my choice

Maxtor 5120 10.2GB drive $145

http://www.computers4Sure.com:80/product.asp?productid=52935&affid=932&adid=932

A place for lots of hard drive reviews...

http://www.storagereview.com


Units from Maxtor and Quantum stand out when it comes to NT performance. The DiamondMax Plus 5120 is a value with the lowest price when it comes to $/GB

[MadMax]

Good & cheap? Mutually exclusive, IMO.

There's good.... http://www.seagate.com/cda/disc/mark/detail/0,1250,55,00.shtml

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/prod/9lp18xp.htm


And there's cheap.... http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/hdd/drive/overseas/mpd3xxxah/mpd3xxxah.html

http://www.maxtor.com/diamondmaxplus/5120.html

No contest. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Anything else is a compromise. That means you give up what the drives above offer as strong points.

[yo_191]

check out
http://www.storagereview.com

this is an awesome site deddicated to reviewing harddrives.

[HOTRODk62]

I think that the quantum fireball ka plus 7200 rpm drive blows all those others away, and they are by far as good as ibm, and better than any of the others. Plus, they are like 150 bucks or so for a 9.1 gig.. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Gordon]

I believe I read that IBM makes the new Western Digital 7200 RPM drives. That is why in performance comparisons, they are nearly, if not the same.

[Bleeding Edge]

A week and a half or two weeks ago, I was able to get the 9.1G 7200rpm IBM drive with the 2MB buffer for $159 with free shipping at NECX. They really don't cost much more than any of these other drives.

You got to pay attention tho'. IBM has Deskstars drives with the same capacity (9.1, 13.5, 18 and 22G) that doesn't have the 2MB buffer...

[zodwell]

www.necx.com has the IBM 14GXP for $174.00...ATA/33 version.

zodwell