PC Peripherals New HDD Recommendation

Yep, the model you've selected is a 120GB disk - will work fine. Should cost you about 3.4K, which is a bit expensive compared to the 2.5K you will spend on an 80GB disk.

Cant figure out the differences between the 2 80GB models though ! I guess one would be a newer revision , thats it.
 
Hsshhhh

After 4 dyas and more than 20 calls I no where get Samsung 80GB Puma/8MB Cache/7200 RPM.:(

Can any one suggest me any other Trusted Brand with above specification.:)
 
The other option would be a Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB disk. Has an 8MB cache. Warranty though , i'm not sure how much they provide - i doubt they offer a full 5 yr warranty. I'd wait for comments from the others :)
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
The other option would be a Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB disk. Has an 8MB cache. Warranty though , i'm not sure how much they provide - i doubt they offer a full 5 yr warranty. I'd wait for comments from the others :)
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Everytime I ask a dealer in Mumbai about WD drives I get the same response - DONT BUY WD THEIR WARRANTY SUX !!

I think all the HDD makes have a 5 year warranty in India. Seagate Samsung WD Maxtor and Hitachi all have 5 years warranty - though in the Sept CHIP they have mentioned 3 years warranty for Maxtors I have 2 of these drives with 5 years warranty. But these change often with no notice so please confirm at time of purchase.
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
The other option would be a Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB disk. Has an 8MB cache. Warranty though , i'm not sure how much they provide - i doubt they offer a full 5 yr warranty. I'd wait for comments from the others :)
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I call directly on Phone, makes available by WD site at there Mumbai office they assure me on warranty as follows :

"As we didn't find any total loss for WD HDD till now, most of them get error/problem while at installing it and if they come to us here in office we offer them new after 4-5 dyas. If they will go to Vashi godown they get on the spot replacment. "

Warranty is for 5 years,

If you bring faulty HDD after 1 yr or so if stock last we replace it else we issue check as per the current rate/cost/valuation of HDD"

The person talk to me is nice he also give me Number of one of shop at Lemington Road, unfortunatly the shop have 160GB HDD and I didn't want so much huge HDD, so thinking to go for
Seagate 80GB Baracuda/2mb Cache/7200 RPM

Gys I see Momentus Series HDD at Seagate site, may I have your reviews please is this HDD usable for DeskTop?
 
Mangesh said:
The person talk to me is nice he also give me Number of one of shop at Lemington Road, unfortunatly the shop have 160GB HDD and I didn't want so much huge HDD, so thinking to go for
Seagate 80GB Baracuda/2mb Cache/7200 RPM

Gys I see Momentus Series HDD at Seagate site, may I have your reviews please is this HDD usable for DeskTop?
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I find sometimes these people we deal with for hardware talk real B.S !! :mad: (I refer to what I was told about bad warranty service from WD) I felt it is possible that WD's margins to the retailers must be low thats why they dont like to sell these drives.

Can you please give name and contact address of the shop whose details you got from WD ?

As far as I know the Seagate Momentus Series drives are 2.5" drives which have a 44 pin connector with no seperate power connector. They are made for notebooks and you will have to find an adapter to fit it into a 3.5" drive bay as well as a data cable adapter. You can use the external USB to IDE cable to connect this drive - there are 2 recent threads on these cables in this forum - as far as I know XP cannot run off a HDD attached to USB. I have Win98SE running off a USB connected 2.5" Momentus 20GB 5400RPM HDD on my computer. The drive is SLOW !!!
 
Hi Eazy,

WD Channel Sales Executive Mr.Majahr Cell-9324803181
with whom I talk and found nice guy.

He ask me to see if 80GB avail with M/s.Chipcom (Mr.Vinod) 23893178
I didn't find with them, instead he offer 160GB.

At Chipcom they hardly have time to talk on phone.... I can understand that they have huge counter sale/enquiry to face.

Sorry Eazy but I can't get you? What you want to say?

Is WD HDD is OK or Not? Is there after sales service have problem?
 
Mangesh said:
WD Channel Sales Executive Mr.Majahr Cell-9324803181 with whom I talk and found nice guy.

He ask me to see if 80GB avail with M/s.Chipcom (Mr.Vinod) 23893178 I didn't find with them, instead he offer 160GB.

At Chipcom they hardly have time to talk on phone.... I can understand that they have huge counter sale/enquiry to face.

Sorry Eazy but I can't get you? What you want to say?

Is WD HDD is OK or Not? Is there after sales service have problem?
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Thanks for the WD contact.... never heard of Chipcom before...

Sorry I was not clear ... what I meant was that the shops on Lamington Road may be bullsh*ting about the WD having bad warranties only because they may not be earning much on sales of WD drives so they want to sell drives on which they make more money :) As for WD being OK or not - I am not sure - not many people in the Storage forums talk about using WD drives...
 
^ Buddy, any HDD will be ok for your system! As long as its PATA (since your board does not support SATA). So yes, go with whichever drive you feel suits you :)
 
Thank You Eddy,

You don't know but you make me worry free. As I buy this HDD against will of my Vendor as he only Push me Seagate/Samsung, I know seagate/samsung is good but I just want to use another brand which is equal to Seag.. or better.
 
I had put this up earlier and feel it appropiate for this thread too... so here is a list of the WORST drives - in this list the Hitachi's are voted as the LEAST WORST drive :)

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EAZY,

Did you take notice of mkt. share (%) of HDD

If segate Sold 100 and 5 person complaint than worst ratio is 5%

But if Hitachi Sold 10 and 5 person complaint than the worst ration is 50%

Are you sure that the above data is calculate assuming mkt. share of Particlular HDD Brand?
 
LOL IBM Deskstars were rated as one of the best HDD's initially...

AFAIK not many ppl buy Hitachi hence it has such a good result.
 
That poll is weird. Qunatum sold out its harddrive unit to maxtor ages ago.

And IBM no onger manufactures hdds, plus only one series was bad (ok REALLY bad, but it no longer exists anyway)

WD is good for SCSI by all accounts, do not know about IDE.... I find hdds in general are no good nowadays. People keep on complaining about them crashing. Probably bcos too much data is being packed too close, and platters are being paked even tighter to reduce space usage.
 
where r u located mangesh......fynny why 80 gb is not avlble with ur vendor as that is apparently one f the highest selling un these days

oh sorry...i didn't read the entire thread...seems u r located in mumbai....but kinda surprising why 80 gig Seagate shouldbn't be available there
 
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