hd recommendations?

roy thinnes · Post by **roy thinnes** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:19 am

hi techheads,
upgrading my system, I need new (SATA) drives. The computer shop around the corner has (amongst others) Samsung drives in store. Acces time is 8.9ms which is not staggeringly good (my old hitachi IDE drive has 8.5ms) and 8mb cache. What do you think? Any problems concerning reliability/speed/noise with Samsung drives?

Post by **garyb** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:43 pm

agreed.
personally, i use western digital, they have the best warranty by far. for sata you can get 16mb buffer drives.....

arela · Post by **arela** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:05 pm

3 samsung s-ata here too.
2 of them are more than 3 years - still spinning - and no noisemakers

roy thinnes · Post by **roy thinnes** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:11 pm

thanks a lot stardust, gary and arela.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:00 pm

Look at the Raptor X 150 GB / 16MB cache / 5.4ms access / 10k rpm models.
www.Storagereview.com. They are low temperature, low noise, and as GaryB said, the best warranty around. Great AV drives also, a small production company could use a couple of RAID 3 arrays for speedy archiving of old movies, music, etc.

roy thinnes · Post by **roy thinnes** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:43 am

Yes, I had a look on the Raptor as well. Problem is: for the money of one 150Gb Raptor (€190 here in G) you can get four 160Gb Samsungs (55€).
Nevertheless - they are damn fast, I know.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:33 pm

Not to change the topic,
Why do my brothas' in UK suffer from trade spikes?
You sent troops to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. You'd think Uncle Sam could help relieve the lack of good deals over there, or is this from the Euro vrs. the Sterling Pound thing?
At any rate I just wish we could trade our synths to each other at better rates, and especially the Intel, WD, and Seagate products.