Which 120GB to buy?

[DutchMaster]

Hi all,

To expand the storage in my PC for video-editing, I'm about to buy a 120Gig drive.
I see there are several brands available and all around the same pricing. This makes it hard to choose. But I narrowed it down to the following list:

Hitachi 120GB IC35L120AVV 7200/8MB/DMA133 90€
Hitachi/IBM 120GB (35L120, 7200rpm, 8MB cache) € 93,-
IBM 120GB (Deskstar 180GXP, 7200rpm 8MB cache) € 93,-
Maxtor 120GB (DiamondMax Plus 9, 7200rpm, 8MB) € 84,-
Maxtor 120GB (D740X, 7200rpm, Liquid Bearing) € 88,-
Maxtor IDE 120GB DMA133 7200 rpm 8Mb (6Y120P0) € 86,-
Samsung 120Gb, 7200rpm, ATA133, 8Mb cache € 89,-
Seagate 120GB (Barracuda 7200.7, 7200rpm, 8MB) € 86,-
Seagate 120GB (Barracuda V, 7200rpm) € 86,-
Seagate 120GB (Barracuda V, ATA100, 7200rpm, 8MB) € 95,-
Western Digital 120GB (WD1200JB, 7200rpm, 8MB) € 92,-

Do any of you have some experience or advise on these drive to choose the one to get?
I don't want to end up knowing I should have got "the other one".

Any help is welcome, thank you

DM

[morganjc]

I would avoid the Maxtor drives if possible. I have replaced countless Maxtor drives (particularly the slimline series) that are 40 GB and above. They all seem to fail after about 8 mo - 1 yr of normal use. I have had good luck with Seagate and WD though.

[Corsairpro]

I've had great success with Maxtor and have heard nothing but good about Seagate. I have little experience with WD after a couple 6.4s died on me, I refused to buy that brand again. Stay away from IBM Deskstars since they've been discontinued. IBM now outsources its HDD to Hitachi, and I've not heard anything one way or the other.

Given all that I'd say performance / acoustics should be about the same for all so just find the one with the longest warranty (3 year).

[willy_ph]

Seagate 120GB (Barracuda V, ATA100, 7200rpm, 8MB) € 95,-

That would be my personal choice. I currently have an 80 gb version of that drive and am very happy with it and am considering a new 120 gb version of the same drive.

[FrankieF21]

with hard drives you will hear bad and good things that may sway you. I personally wouldnt get maxtor for sure but would go with WD and have heard lots of mixed reviews of Seagate and Hitachi. I would go with the WD though thats just me.

[PresterJohn]

buy the seagate or the wd drives...i also *strongly* suggest you avoid the maxtors. i've had 4 maxtor drives die on me in the last 12 months...the most recent being a 60gb which only had about 6 months of use on it.

and another poster in a thread today lost a 120gb maxtor.

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...threadid=97578

so you can learn your lesson the hard way or the easy way.

[cysus]

I'd go with a Mator or a WD.

[The Punisher]

seagate or wd, my bro has 2 wd's and his comp is on 24/7 they run great and haven't died on him yet, i use a seagate hd and so far no probs but its still new, I like how the company did the casing on it though everything is covered

[DutchMaster]

Reading all this, the Seagate ones seem to be the best choice.
I'm going to read some reviews on those and probably will go for this one:
Seagate 120GB (Barracuda V, ATA100, 7200rpm, 8MB)

[Original HDSP]

I'd stay FAR away from WD. I've seen way too many failures of WD drives to ever trust my data to one. I use Maxtor in all the systems I sell, and in my personal systems. I've only had one Maxtor go bad in over 50 systems.