Recommend me a hard drive

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I'm a little bit gutted at the moment, one nof my hard drives has died along with a lot of data, grrr!!!

Can some one recommend me a good brand? I normally go for seagates, but it is a seagate that had died.

It has to be IDE.

 

Don't have the money for that at the moment, what would you reckon is the standard size nowadays? It's a 40gb one that has died.

 

I used to get Maxtor, but Seagate bought out Maxtor. Haven't ever lost a personally owned Maxtor, knock on wood. My current rig's got a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives.

EDIT: All drives will eventually die... just a matter of when.

 

Compare prices and get the best bang-for-the-buck is what I'd recommend. For example, I can get a 7200RPM 80GB drive with an 8MB buffer for $50ish... but for $100, I can get a 7200RPM 320GB drive with a 16MB buffer... 2x the cost, but 4x the space and 2x the buffer.

 

I prefer Western Digital, and the min size these days which should be fine for most things is 80GB.

 

At various times it seems that all brands have had duff batches of drives.

I tend to buy whatever is the current favourite at the fairs. I haven't noticed any difference in life of the drives!

Harry.

 

I have a maxtor, that is 7 yrs old and still going strong. So I guess I'm not much help.

 

Im running WD and Maxtors. Get a raptor, nice and reliable, 5 yr guarantee aswell

 

Okay,

What about this one?

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=6799

 

Looks fine - just an average 80GB hard drive. As long as you don't require ATA/133, you'll be fine (this drive is an ATA/100 drive).

 

Wizard, how old is the drive? I believe most hard drive manufacturers offer three or five year warranties these days.

 

It is under warranty, so I could return it, but cant get any data off it. I've ordered the drive I've linked to.

 

Stick it in a plastic bag and shove it in the freezer for an hour or so, then connect it up as a slave and see if you can access the data. This trick does work sometimes.

 

Also, does it spin up ?

Had a drive this weekend from a client who had lost 11Gb pf data. It would spin up, but Windows could not see it - even in my IDE caddy. If there is life in the drive, shove it in a working machine as a primary master, then run a Windows Xp install CD, then choose recovery console - then do:

Code:

fixboot

then

Code:

fixbmbr

Worked a treat for me in this case.

 

You might also want to check out this page for recovering from boot problems..

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=185301251