Brand of HDD

[LaughStudent]

Hi,
I would buy a new HDD tomorrow, and i would buy a 40Gb, 7200rpm, ATA100, 2M, I wanna have a HDD which is silent.Other factors are not important to me.
Which brand would u suggest?IBM?Quantum Fire Ball Plus? Maxtor? Western Digital?
By the way , i wanna know is it really necessary to have a HDD cooler?
Regards.
Simon

[Banti]

At 7200rpm a HD cooler is up to you. Above that (10k+ rpm), you really should get one. Of course if you have several 7200rpm HDs stacked in a tower system (or you're OC'ing like a mad man), the extra cooling might be needed.

As far as noise, my WDs are not noticeable, of couse the loudest things on my comp are the case fans. So I cannot swear the WDs are whisper silent or anything like that.

Also, 1 post is plenty.

Banti

[This message has been edited by Banti (edited 06-19-2001).]

[CMonster]

I have to recommend IBM -not necessarily for noise, but for performance and reliability.

[LaughStudent]

I've check the price:
Western Digital:845 HKD
FIREBALLPLUS AS 40G :920 HKD
Maxtor:980 HKD
IBM:1000 HKD
So, which one is most worth to buy?

[madfish]

I have all W/D's {8 g up to 15 g have only one installed} But if I was buying a new ata 100, I go with cmonster's IBM's.. my 0.2 worth

[socalgal]

Moved to Data Storage forum.