Upgrading hard drive

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#1 Post by **archer6** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:39 pm

I am upgrading to a 7200rpm hard drive. Here are the drives I'm considering.

1) Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB Hard Drive
2) Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 100GB Hard Drive

I would like some feedback on which is the better drive.
Thanks!

a31pguy · #2 Post by **a31pguy** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:48 pm

I have both the Seagate and the Hitachi. From what I can tell - the only thing that I find advantageous of the Hitachi - is there is better utilities and a very small performance advantage for the Hitachi. But given the price differential - the Seagate has the better deal per Gigabyte. Otherwise - they are very similar specs - which if you are following the hard drive business - is very much by design.

#3 Post by **archer6** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:22 pm

a31pguy wrote:I have both the Seagate and the Hitachi. From what I can tell - the only thing that I find advantageous of the Hitachi - is there is better utilities and a very small performance advantage for the Hitachi. But given the price differential - the Seagate has the better deal per Gigabyte. Otherwise - they are very similar specs - which if you are following the hard drive business - is very much by design.

a31pguy,

That's exactly what I needed to know.
Thanks!

w0qj · #4 Post by **w0qj** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:09 am

All Seagate hard drives (including the model you're looking at) comes with *five* year warranty, hence the increased cost.

Whether or not you care your hard drive still under warranty 5 yrs down the road is up to you (I feel it does--at least use it for external USB hard drive for data backup for retirement).

#5 Post by **archer6** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:25 pm

w0qj wrote:All Seagate hard drives (including the model you're looking at) comes with *five* year warranty, hence the increased cost.

Thanks for calling that to my attention. Longevity is very important to me, as my data is mission critical. I will gladly pay for a good hard drive with an excellent warranty.

Thanks!
Archer

DIGITALgimpus · #6 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:05 pm

Yup, seagates have a great warranty.

I still like Hitachi 2.5" drives a bit more (speed, and IMHO having been around longer there's more history to back their reliability, rather than Seagates somewhat recent re-entry into the 2.5 market).

... but for desktops Seagate is my choice these days.

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