I'm looking to give my father ideas for a hard drive and a CD-RW. He is looking for an EIDE drive under $100 and around 20-40 GB. I'm also looking to recommend a decent EIDE CD-RW drive for under $100.
So far this is what I've found, but I'm looking for everyone's advice.
So far I've seen a plextor 12X/10X/32X at mwave for $87.00 USD (newegg has it for $83) in a whitebox. I really like plextor, but I'm open for ideas. TEAC has a 24X10X40 for $95, but I don't know how good the drives are. There is also an asus 24x10x40 for $80...I'm so confused.
Now for hard drives. I see a WD400BB for $79, but is this one of their models to avoid?
I'm so far out of touch on maxtor drives I don't even know what they offer. I've never really been a big fan of them, but it seems like they have improved over the years. (what do I really know?) What about the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 or 45?
I'm not going to even speak IBM, oopss I just did.
Then there is seagate. Any thoughts on the Seagate Barracuda IV ST340016A 40gb 7200rpm, Newegg has it for $77? SR reports it being slow in access time, but overall it looks like a fair drive.
He's not looking for an enormous drive, just something bigger the 6.5 GB SCSI Quantum in my old PII 350 MHz box. Reliability would be nice, but that is such a picky subject it's impossible to determine which is reliable and which isn't. (Either way I'm not touching IBM)
-DC
So far this is what I've found, but I'm looking for everyone's advice.
So far I've seen a plextor 12X/10X/32X at mwave for $87.00 USD (newegg has it for $83) in a whitebox. I really like plextor, but I'm open for ideas. TEAC has a 24X10X40 for $95, but I don't know how good the drives are. There is also an asus 24x10x40 for $80...I'm so confused.
Now for hard drives. I see a WD400BB for $79, but is this one of their models to avoid?
I'm so far out of touch on maxtor drives I don't even know what they offer. I've never really been a big fan of them, but it seems like they have improved over the years. (what do I really know?) What about the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 or 45?
I'm not going to even speak IBM, oopss I just did.
Then there is seagate. Any thoughts on the Seagate Barracuda IV ST340016A 40gb 7200rpm, Newegg has it for $77? SR reports it being slow in access time, but overall it looks like a fair drive.
He's not looking for an enormous drive, just something bigger the 6.5 GB SCSI Quantum in my old PII 350 MHz box. Reliability would be nice, but that is such a picky subject it's impossible to determine which is reliable and which isn't. (Either way I'm not touching IBM)
-DC