Best 80GB Hard Drive for Capture ?

[BobHennessey]

Good Afternoon,

Could anyone suggest what the best 80GB drive is for data capture ?

Thanks,
Bob

[LMNOP]

*BUMP*

would like anyones thoughts here as well.

[mikerios]

My vote for best bang for the buck, Seagate Barracuda ATA 100 7200 rpm, run pretty cool ( compared to IBM GXP 75 series, those run hot, too hot for my liking ) or Maxtor ata 133 7200 rpm, those run really cool and are quiet. I have 2- Seagates ATA 100 ( 80's ) 2- IBM GXP 75 ATA 100( 76 Gb )7 Maxtors ( 80, 60, 30,s ), 5 of them ATA 100s, the other 2 ATA 133 all of them 7200 rpms, not a single failure .. yet All my drives are OEM, only Maxtor will warrarty ( RMA ) OEM drives no quiblling, not so with IBM, unless you buy them boxed. Not sure what Seagate RMA policy is.

It's been a long while since I even considered Western Digital but he 100 Gb Western Digital Special Edition ( 8 mb cache is what makes it speacial ) 7200 rpm ata 100 has been getting really good reviews. In the former 2, I have both drives, though I have my Seagates in a Raid 0 configuration for firewire captures,. I had my IBMs 75 GXPs in same configuration then one IBM dropped out on me. I managed to revived it but lost all my data ( video captures via firewire port ) on the Raid0 partion, so now both IBM are foramtted back to there 76 Gb partions seperated, since I no longer trust the Bad IBM to due service in Raid.

[HillJack]

Well, it's IBM for me... Quiet and FAST.

I've had 4 Maxtor's die in 3 years (two within a day of eachother), so I'll certainly never trust Maxtor ever again. But hey, we all have our own opinions.

As for buddy saying IBM's run hot, I have 2 of them in this box and one in another box and they are no hotter (not that they're hot anyway) than my one remaining Maxtor (for games only.. so when IT dies it won't matter or my two Quantum Fireball's.

My 2 cents.