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I'm desperately needing a new HDD, and have had my eye on one for some time now. So, I went to order it and...

[URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=aW5hY3RpdmVfcHJvZHVjdA%3D%3D&product_uid=43707[/URL]

...that sucks.

So I was wondering if any of you could recommend me a particular drive.
Maxtor would be nice, but I'm really not bothered as long as it's 120GB+ (the above was 200) and is reliable and quiet and the likes.
Cheers people.

Coin wrote:
> Anyhoo, here it is - [URL]http://www.simply.co.uk/kelkoo/64988/VS/simply_computers/index.htm[/URL]

Only 2mb buffer...

Yeah, quick arithmetic shows that it is indeed the difference between marketing values and computer values.

Crazy.

Probably either a BIOS limitation, or more likely Samsung view a Gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes as opposed to the real computing 1,073,741,824 bytes.

I'm currently using a Samsung HDD, 120GB. Very good, only it cuts off 9GBs for some reason. Nice and quiet too.

However, I did find that most HDDs over 120GB cost £50+. Luckily, I also found a nice little Maxtor 120GB at just under. Well it's better than a £50+ Seagate Barracuda.

Anyhoo, here it is - (http://www.simply.co.uk/kelkoo/[ space ]64988/VS/simply_computers/index.htm).

Sorry, too big to link.

But yeah, looks OK.

Recently discovered Samsung HDD. Quiet, low profile and cheap. Quite impressed.

I'm desperately needing a new HDD, and have had my eye on one for some time now. So, I went to order it and...

[URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=aW5hY3RpdmVfcHJvZHVjdA%3D%3D&product_uid=43707[/URL]

...that sucks.

So I was wondering if any of you could recommend me a particular drive.
Maxtor would be nice, but I'm really not bothered as long as it's 120GB+ (the above was 200) and is reliable and quiet and the likes.
Cheers people.