Looking for a new 120Gb HDD

[Animal_Mother]

Hey all,

Im looking in the near future to upgrade my hard drive to something like 120GB, SATA, but im not sure which one to get :mad:

The only brands i can seem to find on www.Ebuyer.co.uk
are

Seagate
Maxtor

dont Western Digtal do a 120GB SATA HDD?

The only two that i found on there are:

Maxtor 6Y120M0 120gb Serial ATA 8mb Cache 7200rpm - OEM

Seagate ST3120026AS 120gb 7200rpm Barracuda 7200.7 SATA - OEM

With regards to the Seagate what does the 7200.7 mean?

Which would be the better one to get?

Or is there a new HDD coming out soonish thats worth looking at?

Cheers

Pete

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Either would be good i reckon, im a bit seagate fan but have heard nowt but good about Maxtor, if the Maxtor has a bigger cache size than the Seagate though, that would tip it for me

--Jakk:t

[Midknyte]

I think the Seagate is a little better. Both have 8mb cache.

go to www.storagereview.com

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200306/20030615ST3160023A_1.html

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200302/200302276Y200x0_1.html

[Terminator]

I have a SATA Seagate Barracuda V 120MB and it is very fast and very quiet. Sandra rates it at 35500 marks and 6ms access time, but this is just a benchmark.

This ".7" after the code seems to suggest a lower access time 8.5ms compared to 9ms.

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/index

Code on my drive is ST3120026AS also.


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[Midknyte]

The .7 is supposed to be the 7th generation barracuda, but I think they skipped a Barracuda ATA VI. I'm not totally sure what the deal is, but it is basically a generation number.

[sm8000]

Originally posted by Animal_Mother
dont Western Digtal do a 120GB SATA HDD?

According to the link below they make desktop SATA drives in 120, 160, 200, and 250GB capacities:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=59

They also make enterprise SATA drives called Raptors in 36GB and 74GB volumes; the latter should be on market shortly if not already:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/current/retailkits/wd360gdrtl.asp