So I'm planning on buying a new HD...

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:26 am

Captain Mazda wrote:From TigerDirect:

For this Seagate:

-Component Design Life (min) 5 years
-Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 10E14

For this Western Digital:

Hmm, no such stats for it.

I think I may go with the WD, I didn't notice this one earlier and it's the same price as the Seagate. Same HDD as well.

Both those only have 8MB of cache.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:29 am

Western Digital / Caviar SE 16 / 250GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300 / OEM / Hard Drive
For $7 more you get 16MB
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... &CatId=139

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:32 am

Western Digital / Caviar SE 16 / 320GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300 / OEM / Hard Drive
For $40 more you get an extra 70 gigs.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... &CatId=139