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Well after sorting my hard drive upgrade out , my friend now has a similar issue, which i need backing up on.
He currently has a very loud Maxtor drive
Found here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=40968

He wishes for an upgrade, maybe a seagate, just as i have got one aswell.
He likes this one, but im not sure wheather is faster or slower than the one he's already got.
Here it is:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=52159

Now this also appeared to me that this is a ATA/100, the maxtor he has now is a ATA/133. Any difference?
IF you click on the product specs it tells you all about it all.
Also if the product has a seek time of 9.5 and another at 8.5, which is the fastest? i know it sounds stupid!
Anyone help? I told him to go with the seagate, but until he found that it had a ATA/100 he wasn't sure. So been my self i thought i might just be able to get some advice off the simv community.

ME and my pal thank you in advance, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Thanks.

Jimbo

ATA 133 is faster than 100. And the samller the seek time is the better.
My choices of drive would be between a Raptor (Which Im going to get) becasue of its sheer speed, or a Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm drive - I have the 160Gb version.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... _sata.html

I just love all the WD hardrives as they seem to be fairly quiet (Unlike the Raptor) and nice and fast at 50.2Mb/sec.

Maxtor's and seagates are both supposed to be good, so thats me

Thanks Dan, will take a gander

I also happen to have a number of the Seagate Barracuda drives at 7200rpm and ATA133 as well..

They work wonderful for me..

I also recommend the WD Caviar range, very reliable.  I used a WD hdd in my first built system and it still works just as good now, i built it 7 years ago.  It is currently being heavily used by my sister. I use 2 WD caviar drives in my current system.

Seek time: is the time it takes to find data on your drive, lower is better.

I would not worry too much about the difference between ATA100 and ATA133, it is not noticeable at all, because programs really don't push HDDs enough to use 133MB/s data rate.

I found this WD drive, it is ATA100, 8MB buffer and 7200rpm.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=32012

Well the WD has a seek time of 8.9 ms and the seagate has a time of 8.5, but the WD is

[quote]Well the WD has a seek time of 8.9 ms and the seagate has a time of 8.5, but the WD is