Alternative Disk Drives
Discussion
OK, trying to avoid buying a new PC, I thought I would buy a new hard drive, swap it out, reinstall a fresh XP, and then mount the old one as a slave, copy useful data off it, and then have double the storage.
My old drive is a 80G IBM (ic35l080avva07.0) (In a Dell). Any ideas what is a good alternative to this drive, or am I stuck replacing like for like?
My old drive is a 80G IBM (ic35l080avva07.0) (In a Dell). Any ideas what is a good alternative to this drive, or am I stuck replacing like for like?
Damn, a Deathstar 120Gb... had one of those until it got loud and annoying.
You'll have a hard time replacing it for like... IBM don't make HDD's anymore! They sold the whole lot to Hitatchi a while back. But anyway, if you are keeping that computer you will be looking for a PATA drive which goes up to 300Gb (generally speaking).
I think Seagate are reasonably good these days.
You'll have a hard time replacing it for like... IBM don't make HDD's anymore! They sold the whole lot to Hitatchi a while back. But anyway, if you are keeping that computer you will be looking for a PATA drive which goes up to 300Gb (generally speaking).
I think Seagate are reasonably good these days.
Podie said:
CommanderJameson said:
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor - they're much of a muchness for home use.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
I'd avoid Maxtor... the only drives I've seen fail in the last three years...
I have had my Maxtor 200gb in my Shuttle ofr over 3 years and works fine. All much of a muchness really, as someone said before size and budget to suit really.
jodypress said:
Podie said:
CommanderJameson said:
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor - they're much of a muchness for home use.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
I'd avoid Maxtor... the only drives I've seen fail in the last three years...
I have had my Maxtor 200gb in my Shuttle ofr over 3 years and works fine. All much of a muchness really, as someone said before size and budget to suit really.
I look after 4000 PCs... we have a mixture of Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung.
In my experience, over the last three years, the only drives that have failed in service have been Maxtor drives (around 100 failures in that period).
Podie said:
jodypress said:
Podie said:
CommanderJameson said:
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor - they're much of a muchness for home use.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
I'd avoid Maxtor... the only drives I've seen fail in the last three years...
I have had my Maxtor 200gb in my Shuttle ofr over 3 years and works fine. All much of a muchness really, as someone said before size and budget to suit really.
I look after 4000 PCs... we have a mixture of Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung.
In my experience, over the last three years, the only drives that have failed in service have been Maxtor drives (around 100 failures in that period).
I bow to your superior knowledge oh wise one. I was only giving my opinion in that not everything fails etc. I am not going to get into a flame war and say that I manage 4001 pc's
Suffice to say, lots of drives can fail for different reasons etc.
Anyway mine is bigger than yours
jodypress said:
Podie said:
jodypress said:
Podie said:
CommanderJameson said:
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor - they're much of a muchness for home use.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
Buy the one with the size and interface (SATA/PATA) that fits your pocket.
I'd avoid Maxtor... the only drives I've seen fail in the last three years...
I have had my Maxtor 200gb in my Shuttle ofr over 3 years and works fine. All much of a muchness really, as someone said before size and budget to suit really.
I look after 4000 PCs... we have a mixture of Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung.
In my experience, over the last three years, the only drives that have failed in service have been Maxtor drives (around 100 failures in that period).
I bow to your superior knowledge oh wise one. I was only giving my opinion in that not everything fails etc. I am not going to get into a flame war and say that I manage 4001 pc's
Suffice to say, lots of drives can fail for different reasons etc.
Anyway mine is bigger than yours
jodypress said:
Hey Podie,
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
Agreed... it does get a bit too serious in here... actually laughed out loud at your comment though
Jeez... Maxtor / TVR... blimey...
You'd have been shot at dawn by someone... Podie said:
jodypress said:
Hey Podie,
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
Agreed... it does get a bit too serious in here... actually laughed out loud at your comment though
Jeez... Maxtor / TVR... blimey...
You'd have been shot at dawn by someone... I agree with you guys on both issues.
I would say though that I had Western Digital drives fail as well as Maxtor. Seagate go no and on and on and on.... The reasons for our failures were running most of the time at high temps so if your running in a hot environment go Seagate all the way! Podie said:
jodypress said:
Hey Podie,
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
I'm glad you saw the funny side, PH has been getting far to prone to nastyness for no reason. Could you imagine if i had even compared the Maxtor to say a TVR!!!!!
Take care
Jody
Agreed... it does get a bit too serious in here... actually laughed out loud at your comment though
Jeez... Maxtor / TVR... blimey...
You'd have been shot at dawn by someone... I know and my Griff 500 was the only car i couldn't break and believe me i gave it some abuse
Apart from 5th gear going (which is a more common problem than i thought) it was my fav TVR of all time.
Had Jap cars, VW's and a seriously modded mini and i broke something mechanical on all of them.
Anyway, I don't do PC's only Macs: Discuss
That Daddy said:
jodypress,comparing your TVR to japanese quality pah,couldent of been HONDA then,TVR more reliable,he,he,keep em coming.
I know surprised me too. Must have got a reall good'un.
The japmobiles were a toyota supra (old school) and a Nissan GTiR (pocket rocket)
The Trev left me stranded once, when the main 100amp fuse went. That was because I had jump started my mates griff 500 and it blew fuse and I never knew.
RE: OP's original post. Whatever you get, just make sure you back it up
Fer said:
Now to really muddy the waters. If I have the ATA disk, will the SATA/PATA disks fit in, or do I need to worry about the disk controller and cables too?
Pretty sure PATA is ATA - before SATA existed, it was just called ATA because there was no need to differentiate it. A PATA drive should be a direct replacement, but a SATA drive wouldn't be.
Fer said:
Thanks for all your help, folks. Just bought a 250G Samsung and installed XP again. Working well, although had a mare because I had to remember where I have left my CDROM drive, as the DVDRom would not read the XP install disk.
(Thank f*** I had another PC to trawle for help!)
Had exactly the same problem with a Maxtor drive swapped for a Samsung 250Gb, even with the Maxtor as a slave wouldn't work. Now running 2x250Gb Samsung, with a Seagate external as an essentials back up.
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